To celebrate the British International Motor Show this year we picked our 100 best British cars. Check out our selection to help you choose your favourite home-grown motor.
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48 Rover 75 (page 23 of 25)
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Rover's swansong was the first car it had developed completely in-house for a good 20 years, the first to be made from scratch under BMW ownership, but the last decent car the company made as well. Critics slated its retro looks, but car-buying traditionalists loved its olde-worlde charm. Launched in 1999, it made a credible alternative to a German compact exec-class car, and it wasn't a bad drive, either, especially when sported up as the MG ZT. The Mustang V8-engined, rear-wheel-drive version was wonderfully nuts, too. Built at first in Cowley, then at Longbridge until 2005, it has since been reborn in China as the Roewe 750 and MG7.
