Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Having said that, the Rover 200 series were good, but that's because they were basically Hondas - or at least drew heavily from the Honda ?Accord of the time that they were developed alongside.
At the risk of showing considerably more interest in the subject than is healthy, that's a widely-believed and perpetrated myth (while the main development happened in Japan, Rover were shuttling teams of 20-30 engineers back and forth at all times). The R8 200/400s were originally known as the YY/HY project, and were a proper bona-fide collaboration. More details here, if anyone's interested.
Rover 200 400 history
The Honda model (HY) was called the Concerto in the UK.
