Coches que no nacieron

Nice chops…

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Jokejoe

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😮 😮 What hell is that?

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*Astrablog

Jokejoe
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Qué curioso! Este sistema ha pasado a la segunda generación…

  Pues volvemos con Rover, que les parece este 55, a mi en lo personal me encanta, siento que hubiera sido un exito, creo a este auto se referian cuado dijeron que no debia competir con el Serie 3…

  Rover 55: The new-age midliner

The Rover 45 was one of the longest-lived stop-gap cars produced in a very long time. We all think of the Morris Marina as a car that outlived its usefulness by many, many years (1971-1984, if one considers the Ital a Marina), but the Rover 45 equals that achievement when one considers that the Honda Domani was launched in 1992 and the final 45 rolled out of Longbridge in 2005.

Thanks, of course, to its sophisticated suspension set-up, the 45/ZS was actually a pretty accomplished steer – but, in truth, it wasn’t designed to last much longer than 2000. That’s where the Rover 55 comes in.

Back in the late 1990s, Rover engineers and designers were already hard at work on creating an all-new replacement. The initial plan had been for Rover to become a premium brand, with a two model attack on the upper-medium segment. That would have meant the introduction of the Rover 55 in 2002, followed by an all-new 75 in 2004/2005.

Both cars were to be powered by the much talked about BMW NG engines in four- and six-cylinder form. Most intriguingly, the front wheel drive cars’ powerpacks would have been longitudinally-mounted, rather like FWD Audis.

Belying their Bernd Pischetsrieder-era conception, the engines in the 55 and 75 would have been mounted rather a long way back in the chassis – just as the current Audi A4/A5′s are – and, as well as FWD, it was planned to offer the Rover 55 and 75 in 4WD form, too.

These exclusive images, supplied by Nigel Garton, clearly show that the 45′s replacement was due to grow. That was also going to be the case for the next Rover 75. This was part of a new two-model strategy that would see Rover producing what one designer referred to as a pairing of BMW 3+ and 5+ Series models.

When we showed these images to Richard Woolley, the car’s stylist, he said: ‘Yes, I think it was shaping up well. Considering it went from sketch to clay to model in one shot, I think it still looks pretty good nearly 13 years on. But, of course, I may be a bit biased!’

He added: ‘The car sat on a long wheelbase (c.2800mm), giving maximum rear accommodation, but with an overall length less than R75 – the North South installation enabled a much shorter front overhang. The clay model was completed in Gaydon, spring of 1997, and the composite model build was contracted out to Futura in Birmingham with completion that summer.’

What came of this car? Well, in late 1999, the dual model policy was cancelled, with the Rover 35 (R30) programme taking over when BMW decided it was a better idea to take Rover downmarket instead.

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casi que mejor que no lo sacaran.

porque los que hacían antes los diseñaron a mitad de los 90 y se dedicaron a ir rebozándolos hasta cerrar, porque no tenían pasta para sacar los nuevos.

Pensad en este coche como un coche de hace 10 años pensad en la comptentencia y vereís como es mejor que lo que ahora nos parece.

espectacular y entretenido este tema, me gusta

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Bueno, aquí tenemos un interesantísmo reportaje de Motor16 sobre la nave A122 de Seat. No sale todo lo que hay, pero desde luego destapa joyas como los Ibiza y Cordoba cabrio.
Como escalafón, se deja ver un poco el modelo que tanto tiempo llevaba buscando, el que Seat construyó con Suzuki y que finalmente con la entrada de Volkswagen quedó descartado. Curiosamente este modelo sirvió de inspiración para el frontal del Arosa, aunque el modelo fuera tipo monovolumen de 5 puertas.

Quiero verlo todooooo!!!! :baba:

Saludos!

Sigo sin entender porqué las marcas no dejan ver algunos prototipos de coches que no llegaron a nacer. ¿Qué puede importarle a Seat que veamos cómo era el diseño de ese pequeño monovolumen para sustituir al Arosa?

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Sigo sin entender porqué las marcas no dejan ver algunos prototipos de coches que no llegaron a nacer. ¿Qué puede importarle a Seat que veamos cómo era el diseño de ese pequeño monovolumen para sustituir al Arosa?
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Este coche fué construido para sustituir al Marbella, no al Arosa. El coche es de principios de los 90, de la época del primer Toledo. Los que hay al lado tapados, tienen pinta de ser rarezas también.