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4.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent dissection of this most controversial motor car, 27 Mar 2000
By A Customer
Karen Pender's "Rover SD1 - The Complete Story" provides an amazingly comprehensive study of British Leyland's most controversial car. From its conceptual beginnings in 1969, embryonic development throughout the early 1970s, production in the latter half of that decade, ongoing improvements throughout the 1980s and eventual (some say premature) replacement by the Rover 800 - and not forgetting, of course, the cost-cutting, managerial incompetence and shopfloor apathy that blighted British Leyland during its troubled history - this book has the lot! There are also some fascinating photographs showing early prototypes and experimental variations. The amount of research that has gone into this book is astounding.Each of the many model variants are well covered including the rare Turbo Diesel, tarmac-terrorising Vitesse and various export models. Details on trim and functional specifications are fully documented, too. There is a wealth of technical mechanical details for the ardent SD1 fans, though it's easy enough to skip these sections if desired. Although clearly an SD1 fanatic, Pender is aware of the car's major inherent faults though I felt these could have been covered in more detail. Perhaps the book's only fault is that, although entirely readable, Pender's prose is rather amateurish in places - Crowood Publishing need to get themselves a better editor! Overall, though, a truly excellent achievement and an unparalleled tome of information that will easily satisfy both SD1 diehards and the merely curious!
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