Rover 220 GTI Rember these....

Thats the one Cheer's

Fairly sure these were called Tracers in development. Great cars which are starting to go up in value, I've got a 2.0 NASP Coupe.

Will be following with interest.

This brings back some memories. I came home one day and someone had dumped one on my driveway. This must have been back in around 2010. I had a train station just around the corner and I think they must’ve just found a spot to dump it. Thing is they never came back for it!

Did these have some comfy Recaro seats?

Love the roof bars. (Very serious comment, I love cars being made a bit more practical, I have some on my Porsche and use them regularly!)

Always enjoyed watching the 216GTi race series, they have a shape that looked good on track.

Fords go for silly money, especially the sporty models. The Rs2000 4x4 has 150bhp iirc, must’ve weighed a lot due to the 4x4 system.
Turbocharged definitely needed, same as Sapphires, lazy revvers unless in Cossie format. My dad has a 2.0 DOHC 140bhp, it really needed winding up. Got smoked once by an MG Montego 2.0EFi, he was gutted 😂

I had a '91 216 GTi in the same colour. Reg was J40 ECA or similar to that.

It was in the days where ads didn't really have photos, and I turned up expecting a tomcat but it was one of these. Bought it anyway and quite liked it. I didn't keep onto cars for long and ended up selling it.

Some anecdotes about it :

1 - I put for sale for about £400, which was absolute buttons (nothing really wrong with it in the slightest). Some utter div turned up in an old Saab and asked if he could test drive it, so I gave him the keys. He came back and said "no" to it - the reason? "when you rag it in fourth and then drop down into 3rd the clutch slips a little". Still to this day don't know what rattled round between his ears! People like that are beyond contempt imo.

2 - I eventually sold it to a lad I was "friends" with - he was like Jay from the inbetweeners. I used to tell him stuff knowing he was both gullible and full of the brown stuff, and one amusing little thing I'd forgotten I'd fed him was that the 't' in GTi meant 'turbo'. So anyway, he bought it off me for very little in the end, and he was such a tool with a bad temper.
a - Literally everyone he was in speaking distance of had to be told about his 'Rover GTi Turbo' he had
b - Everyone who saw him in it said he went round in it bouncing off the limiter, and he had the gall to complain to me about how it wasn't good on fuel
c - He came to my house complaining because he slammed the door in a fit of rage (normal for him) and the door card had become wedged between the pillars with the door opening separately from it. Quickly fixed it, but it was mildly amusing to see.
d - It finally died because it snapped a driveshaft - how? According to his brother he was waiting at roadwork traffic lights and when the lights went green he dumped the clutch. Can't imagine how badly he treated that car beyond the above.

I actually miss it, and out of the several dozen I've owned it's one I'd like to have never sold. I can still smell it in my head now (grey leather with a lemon air freshener)

My mates just popped round in the Rover; you forget how mint theses cars were and still are.love it.

That turbo is the holy grail 2 series. Mint and in British racing green too. There’s a couple of 416 GTi twin cans for sale but automatics. Same engine I had in my Civic ed7 1.6-16 130bhp D16 as opposed to the more widely used 115bhp D16. They’re asking 2.5k which is fair seeing how rare they are, these engines are better with manuals as they love to be revved!

I honestly think your 220 would have my Laguna in a race, similar power would be interesting but the Rover would win!