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BMC>Rover have been responsible for many successful production cars, but there have been many that did not see the light of day.

Vanden Plas prototypes

Vanden Plas was much more than a badge applied to upmarket Austin Rover cars: in their heyday, they were a producer in their own right of some very special cars. Once under the wing of BMC, things changed, but the Kingsbury works still produced some very interesting prototypes... Enter...

Rolls-Royce projects

During the 1960s, BMC and Rolls-Royce entered into some very serious negotiations; although little of substance ever saw the light of day, photographic records of some of the prototypes and models produced have survived. Enter...

Leyland-era prototypes

During the 1970s and early 1980s, the company produced several interesting design concepts, including the safety-inspired SSV/SRV series, the aborted meduim-size car projects (TM1 and SD2) and BL Technology's ECV programme... Enter...

Austin Rover concepts

Roy Axe arrived in 1982 and heralded a new and exciting design direction at Austin Rover. The concepts produced at the new design offices at Canley were exciting, and wowed the world when launched at the Geneva and Frankfurt motor shows. Enter...

Rover prototypes

The Rover design teams through the years also produced their fair share of interesting design concepts... Enter...

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