[Rovernet] Rover 3500 SD1 - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle automotive sale

[Glen R Wilson]

On 6/29/20 5:09 PM, Jess Rainey via Rovernet wrote:
> I believe the 1,181 figure is correct for all of North America. Forty to fifty percent of the NAS SD1s went to Canada if I remember correctly.
That makes sense. The number sold in the USA was in the mid-800s 
according to one book. I think that would possibly be based on records 
of cars actually registered for the road. I remember hearing stories of 
lots of them sitting on railroad cars at the end in the USA. I think 
they were priced about $400 less than the Jaguar XJ6 saloons being 
marketed by the same corporation which leads one to think that the 
corporate intention was to kill off the sale of Rovers in the USA once 
and for all, a conspiracy theory that's not hard to believe. I think 
your basic SD1 in USA trim sold for just under $14,000 in 1980, and that 
was a tough market to be in if you were selling a somewhat 
unconventional car.
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> On Monday, June 29, 2020, 2:01 PM, Glen R Wilson via Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org> wrote:
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> On 6/29/20 4:42 PM, geffandjulie--- via Rovernet wrote:
>> I just sold my SD1 to an enthusiast in NYC. This one looks better!  I can't
>> tell if the a/c is on it, otherwise it looks nearly perfect. Seller is
>> correct, there were only 1181 sold in USA, and few left.
> Geff, I'm not even sure all of those SD1s for the North American market
> even made it over here. Sometime the production figures and the sales
> figures are two separate things. Wish we'd gotten the later SD1s not
> sold in the USA.
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