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Showing posts with label 2004. Show all posts

Rover 25 Impression - 2004 by Perico001 Sold for £ 2.000 The...



Rover 25 Impression - 2004 by Perico001 Sold for £ 2.000

The Jaguar Land-Rover Collection
Brightwells Auctions
Bicester Heritage
Buckingham Road
Bicester
Oxfordshire
England
March 2018

15.015 miles showing on the clock and every indication that the figure is correct : DVLA records show that this Rover 25 covered fewer than 7.000 miles from its first MOT in 2007 to its last in 2011. And then there is the condition – remove the number plates and wave an aerosol of New Car Smell inside the car and no-one would be the wiser. Perhaps.

This Rover 25 Impression is one of the last of the line – production ceasing nine months after this car was first registered on 30th June 2004. Supplied new by Evans Halshaw in Reading, there are two stamps in the service book and it comes with its bookpack including handbook and a current V5C

Not a bad car, and - in fact - Britain’s best-selling car in April 2000, the Rover 25 suffered from lack of investment at cash-strapped Rover and then from lack of interest when the company was sold first, down the river and then to the Chinese.

Still, that was then, and this is now and what is on offer here is an automotive memento mori and not something you will see everyday. E-Types ? Common. Aston Martins ? Ten-a-penny. How many nearly new Rover 25 Impressions have you seen recently? And in the perfect colour, sporting the up-dated MG frontal styling, and improved interior. Did we mention the low mileage? What a combination.

If you didn’t buy one of these when they were new, shame on you. You can however, make up for that and buy the next best thing: this one. https://flic.kr/p/FSck6D


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Aston Martin DB7 Zagato - 2004 by Perico001 n° 82 of...



Aston Martin DB7 Zagato - 2004 by Perico001 n° 82 of 99

Rekindling one of the motoring world’s most iconic partnerships, Aston Martin and Zagato fittingly unveiled the new DB7 Zagato to a private gathering of valued customers in 2002 at Gieves & Hawkes, No.1 Saville Row, London. Based on a shortened DB7 platform, the Zagato employed the 435bhp V12 powerplant mated to a short-throw 6 speed manual transmission. The distinctive styling, including Zagato’s trademarked “double-bubble” roof, evoked strong memories of the iconic DB4 GT Zagato from the 1960s, not to mention the stunning driveline from the most focused DB7 built, the GT, ensuring that the orderbook for all 99 cars was quickly fulfilled. Bodied mostly in aluminium by Carrozzeria Zagato in Italy, the car was almost 60kg lighter than the standard DB7 GT giving it a suitably enhanced turn of speed over its mechanically similar stablemate.

London Concours 2019
Honourable Artillery Company
London
England - United Kingdom
June 2019 https://flic.kr/p/2gM5k4v


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