{"id":87661,"date":"2021-12-29T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=87661"},"modified":"2022-01-06T09:43:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T09:43:34","slug":"rover-sd1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/rover-sd1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rover SD1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

British cars of the 1970s are still known today for poor quality. The main reason for this was extreme disagreements between the company bosses in the car industry and the employees on the assembly lines. This resulted in a wave of strikes almost unimaginable today, as well as extreme unwillingness to perform quality checks before new cars were delivered. As a result, customers received vehicles with missing parts or parts that simply fell off after a short time. Unintentionally, employees and bosses were responsible for the rapid decline of the British auto industry through their respective stubbornness. The major manufacturers from the British Leyland conglomerate were unable to recover independently from the bad reputation and the quality deficiencies. Today, only Land Rover and Jaguar still exist as part of the Indian Tata Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First joint project between Rover and Triumph<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A closer look reveals that the model series from manufacturers such as Triumph, Austin, MG and Rover at that time offered beautiful design and great detail solutions. Especially the large sedans had what it took to find buyers in the European market. What would have happened if the workers on the production line had attached importance to high quality manufacturing? Let’s take a look at the car that the Specialist Division developed from 1971 as the successor to the Rover P6 and Triumph 2000. Under the direction of David Bache, a hatchback model was created with design inspirations from a Pininfarina concept car based on the Austin 1800 and from the Ferrari 365 GTB\/4 ‘Daytona’. Initially, the project was internally abbreviated TR1 (Triumph Rover 1), which soon changed to SD1 (Specialist Division 1). The 1 stood the first jointly developed car. SD2 never got beyond the prototype stage. Instead, the company focused on continuous improvements to the SD1.<\/p>\n\n\n

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