Introduced in 1963 as a replacement for the P4, the Rover P6 (initially marketed as the 2000) is perhaps best known for becoming the first winner of the European Car of the Year award (1964).

What British saloon from the 1960s was as powerful as a Chevrolet Corvette, as fast as a Porsche 911, and as expensive as a Cadillac? Those might be impressive and expected stats for a roadster ...

It was Disraeli who gave the working man the vote, it was FW de Klerk who ended Apartheid and it was Rover that created the P6. Rover was not burdened with revolutionary fervour. It just wanted to ...

Years before Rover teamed up with Honda to bring its 800-series to America as the Sterling 825 and 827, the British Leyland brand made a cameo appearance in the US with its Rover 3500, or SD1 as ...

The Rover P6 never received its gas turbine, and the entire programme was abandoned. Today all the surviving cars are in museums, the JET1 prototype in the Science Museum in London, and the T3 ...

The Rover, which went almost unchanged in its six-year life, is the more expensive Coupé model, costing £2853; to keep things ...

It was 60 years ago that the first European Car of the Year was unveiled. A technological tour de force, the Rover P6 was a worthy winner, and the next year the Brits scooped gold with the Austin ...

The PM gleefully shared a photo of himself behind the wheel of a Rover P6 as he outlined his plans to woo motorists. But critics swiftly pointed out the vehicle was used by Special Branch officers ...

The Rover P6 3500S was a hit thanks to its 3.5-litre V8 and four-speed manual gearbox ...

The design of the P6 was evolutionary, and has perhaps aged the best out of all of Rover's cars of the last half-century. Steele restored every part of the car, with the engine taking the most time.

The addition of a 3.5-litre V8 transformed Rover's stately saloon into a car that's fondly remembered by the great British public. The P6 appeared in 1963 but didn't get the 3.5-litre V8 until ...