History of the 3-Series (from Ch4)

[Guest]

http://channel4.com/4car/feature/retros ... rsary.html

[6potWil6pot]

LOL
"its three-box shape and dark, drab and rather cramped interior was looking very dated. In perhaps an ultimate indignity, Car magazine (March 1990) tested a 316i against a Rover 216 GSi (just Ԛ£165 less expensive, at Ԛ£11,820) and judged the then-new, Honda-engineered Rover the better car for the money: the BMW was "simply out-performed - and out-handled, too - by the faster, sharper, smarter Rover"; "technically and aesthetically, the BMW is as old-fashioned as the 216 is modern."

I remember the zone discussing that review before too, any Rover 216 owners clubs around nowerdays then boys?

[Ant]

nah, no owners club as all the cars died about 10 years ago from K series blow ups and terminal rot

horrid cars, shows what some journos know

did they even consider residual values I wonder ?

[6potWil6pot]

Na Ant, the resale values are brilliant!....


For the buyer that is! The amount of em i saw when trawling the "bargin basements" of garage forecourts!

[Adammcf]

That review was a little dissappointing! Thought they would have had more praise for it than that.

[Jimbob]

Shame they didn't do the 318iS against the 216/218 gsi
Things might've been slightly different