Great Motoring Disasters: MG Rover CityRover

Great Motoring Disasters: MG Rover CityRover

Its name was the cleverest thing about it. Or it would have been, had the Rover brand not been so tarnished by years of messy history. The next best thing about this new supermini was the classy array of chrome ‘C I T Y R O V E R’ characters across its tailgate. It seemed like one of the few positives in this tale of the last whimperings of MG Rover. In the broadest sense, acquiring the rights to sell this Italian-designed supermini might have s…