Coches que no nacieron

Me encantan las maquetas del interior (L

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  A ver si con el nuevo se animan, es muy interesante lo visto en estos bocetos…

pues suerte que no nació, era horrible y hubiesen vendido 3.

El de arriba si que me gusta mucho,el de abajo no,me parece muy fea la trasera

Algo Cadillac pero muy interesante!!

Esa propuesta, ¿para qué año? Porque me inspira aires de los 90.

Rover 55

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Once upon a time, back in the days when the MG Rover Group was alive and fairly hopeful for the future […] in the hands of BMW, the Bavarian carmaker was dreaming up a new lineup for the British company. Among the plans was one for the development of a replacement for the outdated, fifth-generation Honda Civic-based, 200/400 series, later called the 25/45, positioned under the 75 in Rover’s car lineup.

We remember many proposals and concept sketches for the car from the period, but the folks from «Aronline» managed to secure some exclusive photos of a full size clay model that we’ve never seen before. Named the R55, it’s a design proposal for a compact sedan slightly larger than the BMW 3-Series said to have been completed back in the Spring of 1997.

The crew from the British blog talked to the designer of the car, Richard Woolley, who had this to say:

«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!»

«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.»

The R55 sported a dynamic design with very short overhangs, a clamshell-style bonnet and a relatively low roofline – something like a British flavored Chrysler 300. Only thing is the 300 was introduced as a concept model some six years later, at the 2003 NY Auto Show…

Sure the styling might be polarizing, but in our opinion (feel free to disagree) it still looks fresh today especially when compared to current offerings in the segment.

In any case, the R55, which was supposed to spearhead Rover’s attack in the premium segment along with a slightly larger replacement for the 75 (think BMW 5 Series+) was ditched as where many other plans to revitalize Rover in the years to come.

este es el SsangYong Rexton

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e este es el  MG Rexton

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IT’S fairly common knowledge within the industry that, when BMW and Rover cut their ties in 2000, there a certain number of conditions were imposed about the future use of certain marque names. For one, BMW decided to allow MG Rover to use the Rover marque name on its own terms – by licensing it to the British company. Although, outwardly, this might seem like a strange decision, there was a sensible reason for it. In order to make its books appear to balance more favourably following its British adventure with Rover between 1994 and 2000, BMW decided that it couldn’t keep hold of Land Rover and so sold the Solihull company to Ford for a whopping £1.6bn.

In order to protect Ford from MG Rover producing a rival off-roader, one stipulation of the convoluted licensing deal involving the Rover marque was that Longbridge could not produce an off-roader or four wheel drive car bearing the Rover name. After all, customers in international markets might confuse a Land Rover 4×4 with a Rover 4×4 – and, if you think that sounds implausible, remember that, in the USA, most drivers call their Rangies ‘Rovers’…

However, the restriction did not deter MG Rover from looking at the alternatives during its five-year run. The main source of new metal for MG Rover would come from collaboration with manufacturers – and producing MGR versions of vehicles already in production. This thinking clearly resulted in the CityRover and MG XPower SV but could also have produced a number of other interesting vehicles.

Here are just seven cars that could have become MG Rovers – and those are the ones that we know about:
■Matra M72
■Renault Espace
■Fiat Stilo
■Proton Gen2
■Fiat Multipla
■ Lancia Musa
■A great little mid-engined TATA Indica with MG TF 180 running gear

Another car that was seriously evaluated at Longbridge was the SsangYong Rexton but, because of the no 4×4 stipulation from BMW, it would have had to be badged as an MG. Given that marque’s sporting heritage, there’s no doubt that an off-roading Octagon-badged SUV might cause marketing problems. However, that didn’t stop Peter Stevens’ stylists reluctantly agreeing to have a close look at the idea on behalf of Longbridge. It wasn’t the first off-roader to be evaluated by MGR, either, as the test and development engineers who put miles on the aborted Rover 75 Tourer 4×4 (using Freelander running gear) will attest to.

Peter Stevens recalls: ‘To try and keep the dealers on side Kevin Howe had a plan to get them all up to Longbridge and show them how bright the future was – hence the mock-up of RDX60 that was done at the Dove Company in very quick time! However, at the last minute he didn’t think that would be enough (too true!), so he asked me if we could take a Rexton and make it into an MG for next Friday.

‘Once again the great guys at the Dove Company did the impossible with my brilliant ‘right hand man’, Ian Moreton in charge. This took just nine days and, I have to say, it had great wheels and tyres. Kev had heard that SAIC were planning to buy SsangYong and thought the vehicle would be a great idea. You would think that, while doing something like this, he would have mentioned the idea to SsangYong. Well no, actually he didn’t.’

The MG version of the Rexton looks surprisingly good – much better than the car it’s based on – and may well have had potential but three prototypes are now all that remain of the idea. Interestingly, the Security Guards at Longbridge are currently using one of those prototypes on the site and SAIC was apparently unaware of the existence of the project until the merger with NAC last year.

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Jokejoe

Pues el primero y el segundo son preciosos…

Me quedo con el rojo…