I wanted to make the case for the missing gem of motorsport, the 1980 Rover SD1. This car was designed by David Bache, designer of the Ferrari Daytona and the link between designs is obvious. Especially in the front end. Famous driver and team manager Raymond Mays described it as the “best car he ev…

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They do have a Rover SD1 scanned and added to Forza Horizon 4, but alas it remains the only Forza it’s been in. I would love to have it in FM23, but I doubt it will be added any time soon due to the pace of adding cars as well as the trend towards adding only (already built) racing cars… I’ll give t…

[Rover-SD1-3500-Group-1-134812] 250 HP Group 1 version. [Rover-SD1-3500-Group-2-56786] 330 HP Group 2 version. Love them all! If only Turn 10 could attend one of those Silverstone Classics events :heart_eyes:

David Bache designed the Rover P5 (Three Litre), the P6 (2000) and the SD1 (3500). His other Rover designs were not produced due to the BMC/Leyland merger - Bill Lyons of Jaguar vetoed any internal competition. Bache also tidied up other peoples’ designs, notably the Land Rover Series 2, original R…

Just a brief reminder that the Rover SD1 voting topic has been split into three versions for both games, if you like to see those variants in the games, individual votes for those would be welcome :slight_smile: Forza Motorsport topics: [image] Rover SD1 1976-1986 Car Voting…

Twas the first car I got into as a kid that had electric windows and that’s all that mattered back then, but sure why not add some interesting vehicles to the game. As for voting…Meh

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1980 Rover SD1, the missing Gem TED Talk

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