Rover 25

The Rover 25 is a small family car made by the British manufacturer MG Rover from 1999 to 2005 at its Longbridge plant. It replaced the Rover 200 of the 1980s and 1990s. Unable to afford an all new model, Rover restyled the 200 to match the newer Rover 75 and gave it a new name. It was sold as a three door or five door hatchback with Rover K-Series four cylinder petrol engines of 1.1 to 1.8 litres and a 2.0 litre L-Series turbodiesel. A 2004 facelift brought smooth headlamps, a new front bumper and a new dashboard, but no technical change, and the car scored three stars in Euro NCAP testing. The MG ZR was a sporting version of it. Production ended in 2005 when MG Rover went into liquidation, and the French article counts about 1,482,000 cars built when the Rover 200 predecessors are included.