Rover 3500 Van den Plas

The gloriously appointed Eight-cylinder rover

Beats the Opel bloody Kadett, wouldn't get close to eight jet engines, and for the Rotary Mazda - who can honestly say? A good metaphor for how life’s metaphors don’t always, as they say, bear close examination. For in the game, a V8 Rover — okay, okay, with plush seats — may edge out an Audi Quattro or the Jaguar XJ6, but who in real life would be seen dead in one?

See also

• The JC’s own FWMD Top Trumps game
• Top Trumps
• Rotary Mazda
• Rover 3500 Van den Plas
• Opel bloody Kadett - the Supertramp of seventies automotives.
• If military aircraft are more your thing, eight jet engines