For 1986 onwards large Rover, see Rover 800 series.
Motor vehicle
Rover SD1
1985 Rover 3500 Vitesse
Overview
Manufacturer
British Leyland (Rover marque)
Also called
Standard 2000 (India)
Production
1976–1986 303,345 produced
Assembly
Castle Bromwich, England Cowley, Oxford, England Solihull, West Midlands, England Chennai, India New Zealand,[1] South Africa (Blackheath) assembly of CKD parts
The Rover SD1 is both the code name and eventual production name given to a series of executive cars built by the Specialist Division (later the Jaguar-Rover-Triumph division), and finally the Austin Rover division of British Leyland from 1976 until 1986, when it was replaced by the Rover 800. The SD1 was marketed under various names. In 1977 it won the European Car of the Year title.[2]
In "SD1", the "SD" refers to "Specialist Division" and "1" is the first car to come from the in-house design team.
The SD1 was the final Rover-badged vehicle to be produced at Solihull. Future Rover models would be built at the former British Motor Corporation factories at Longbridge and Cowley.
^The New Zealand Market Retrieved from http://roversd1australia.com/ on 28 December 2015
^"Rewind to 1977: Rover 3500". Quicks. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
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