Rover: A Prodigy Squandered

Rover. The car for pensioners. For your Great Uncle. Provider of public transit to OAPs about to cause a 10 mph crash the nation over. But hydropneumatic suspension? Mechanical fuel injection? An anti-roll system not implemented before or since? A mid-engined GT? Rover was actually one of the most advanced and ambitious car manufacturers out there, and the only reason they weren't able to realise that ambition was because of an eldritch horror the likes of which the world hasn't seen before or since... Watch as my mind once again leaks out of my ears in these 33 minutes of overly-edited hell. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IntergalacticBinman Twitter: https://twitter.com/GalacticBinman Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/galacticbinman/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/galacticbinman.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/IntergalacticBinman Soundtrack: 0:00 Frosty The Snowman - The Ronettes 0:12 Coronation Street Theme 1:04 Alone - Wishbone Ash 2:43 Glad - Traffic 3:41 Rumble - Link Wray 6:08 Green Onions - Booker T. & the M.G.'s 8:52 The "In" Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio 10:21 Trampoline - The Spencer Davis Group 12:39 Giving To You - Traffic 15:08 Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces 16:34 The Planets, 'Mars' - Gustav Holst 18:47 Fighting for Madge - Fleetwood Mac 21:10 A Horse With No Name - America 24:07 The Planets, 'Jupiter' - Gustav Holst 24:56 Coffin Nails - MF DOOM Thanks to AROnline for providing the vast majority of the source material on what is a very obscure topic! For extra credit in this module, feel free to try these optional readings: https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and-prototypes/rover-p7/ https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and-prototypes/rover-p8/ https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and-prototypes/rover-p6-bs/ https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and-prototypes/rover-p10/ This video was made before the announcement that AROnline will soon be discontinued. If any of these articles get archived anywhere, I will provide them later. Massive thanks to Harve (@harve, @harveywithouty on Twitter and @harveposting on Instagram) for putting together the incredible segment between 16:01 and 17:44!