New front discs (2 sets in 3 years).
Exhaust cat heat shield mount broken.
The best fun per pound I know of. Enormous fun to throw around and an engine which begs to be revved.
Comfy, fairly commodious for a coupe and with a half-decent boot it is an engaging companion anywhere but on the motorway where its revviness and wind around the great T-bar roof make it tiresome.
Could use more power but the chassis is so well matched to the engine it's not really important.
I agree - I've had a 216 coupe for 18 months and its great. A bit noisy on the motorway but great fun and faster than you think.
Rover should still make them and call them mgbgts!!!
Original poster here -
We just had to sell the Tomcat (BooHoo!) as the kids need more space.
We covered 27k miles in 3.4 years. The car never broke down, and passed every MOT without any work.
It cost us 4 tyres, 2 front disc rotors and an exhaust back box in all that time.
The car still looked stunning when we sold it and the new owner seemed delighted with this car!
It was almost as much fun to throw around as my Integra type-R , and I don't say that lightly.
Advice to anyone considering selling their Tomcat is to keep it as standard as possible, that was the main selling point and let me get top book money for it.
Get a clean one with a full service history and they're wonderful, reliable fun bargains.
Bought an ex company VVC in met purple.
Brilliant car for under 6 grand. More fun than the 306 XSi I had before.
Recommended to anyone who values fun over posing.
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Bought a 216 Coupe in 2001 - a silver "L" reg. It's now covered 67,000 miles, has never failed to start, has never broken down, has never failed an MOT and still gets admiring glances when being driven around town (usually Stratford-Upon-Avon) with the roof off, windows down and stereo up. I love it - and have zero complaints at all. Recently had it valued by a dealer mate of mine, and it seems to be depreciating really slowly now, too...
I bought a 220 turbo after 2 years with a 216 coupe and it was all over the road, torque steering and understeering every time you touched the accelerator. We're looking for a vvc 1.8 model coupe now as a good compromise. The lower powered Tomcats are really the ones to have as the power doesn't overwhelm the chassis.
Just traded my old 1970 Rover P5B coupe for the 216 coupe last week form what fun I have had s far I am impressed its certainly quick for a 1.6! car is a 95 and still lookin good and gettin glances don't seem to see many around!
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