Jimmy wrote:Brian has a nice crib..... He doesn't look like he would be impressed racing and wrenching one of our Hoopties all weekend. But you never know - looks can be deceiving... also he might be the life of the Sat potluck with a six pack and 4 or 5 shots of tequila in him. We should pass the hat and see if we cant buy him a ticket to Boston.
"Crib" is a 14th Century manor house, with attached village which was abandoned during the plague, and a thousand acres including a small railway station (!) I think his racing days are long behind him. He's into Foxhunting now. 
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In other news; Contemporary review of the Rover 600 in the April 1993 issue of AutoCar free online here - https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/ … 2d2326c98a
Text reproduced from AutoCar as follows;
"THE FACT THAT THE ROVER 620i fails to win this test doesn't automatically mean it is a bad car, or even a disappointing one. Nor does it spell disaster for Rover in the showrooms .
What it does prove , however, is that a car needs more than the 620i ' s good looks and merely very competent dynamics to make it right to the top these days. The BMW 3-series proved that years ago and the frighteningly able Mondeo - perhaps the best car Ford has ever made - simply reaffirms it.
Rover shouldn't be disheartened, though, because the 620i has its other vital rival , the Accord, licked . Not to drive -the two cars are to all intents and purposes identical from this point of view but to sit in and to look at and to smell.
Rover 's engineers really only had one task to fulfil with the 600 and that was to make it feel different, feel classier than the Accord on which it is unapologetically based. They hit the bull ' s-eye. It's just a pity there weren 't the financial resources within Rover to let them have a decent crack at the rest of the car. Either way, the 620i comes a respectable third.
The Audi comes nowhere in this test- not because it is such an awful car but because it is both the most expensive and, by a wide margin , the least able. Which leaves but one question unanswered : which is the best?
One thing is certain: anyone faced with the predicament of choosing between either the BMW or the Mondeo knows that mid-size motoring doesn 't get any better than this .
The heart says choose the more stylish , more obviously desirable BMW, but in the end the Mondeo ' s completeness as an all-rounder and its superior practicality- it costs £2000 less and can carry four adults in far greater comfort for starters - pounds the 318i into submission , and the most honourable second place we can remember. The Mondeo rules on.
7 April 1993 Autocar & Motor 47"
