When did you.....?

[marts66]

fall in love with Zeds. Mine was on the A688 between West Auckland and Staindrop. I was in my old 620si and I was trying to follow it when it dived into a corner leaving me for dead. I remember thinking to myself 'wish mine cornered as well as that!'. A hatch in goodwood green, never did catch him but wanted one from then on.

[Ritchy]

decided i wanted one at work, but had to be a mk2 with the 11 spokes, a saloon, full bodykit, big spoiler, and the grey matrix seats, guess what got traded in the next day

[Bobdope2002]

when my 414 blew up lol

[grimmy]

When I saw the pics of them at release when I had my 416 seen the 180 in trophy blue and was hooked.

[pheelay]

August 2005, when I saw a new firefrost Mk2 in the showroom of my the Rover/MG dealer, just down the road from my house. I had never heard of the ZS before that as they're very rare in Ireland and it was the last Mk2 they had. A week later, it was on my drive. :trampoline:

[ThumpJunkie]

When my ex said that she'd always wanted one but couldn't afford on. Went out and bought mine the next day, then sent her pictures.

That's how I roll.

P.S. Bobdope2002's STILL here?

[peterzs]

My MGB GT slowly rusted away and was going to cost too much to get through the next MOT. Looked at a few MGF's but decided we were getting too old to climb in and out.

Looking through Ebay saw the yellow ZSTD, never even knew MG did ZS's but thought with the looks of the 180 body kit and derv economy couldn't go wrong.

Loved it from the moment I had the test drive, and then the drive home.

[ian zs180]

I wanted a 160 zr at first and that was what i was going for, but then i seen the mk2 zs with that amazing body kit and thought thats what i,m getting and ive never looked back since had it just over 4 years now

[big_wasa]

When my mate said they did one like his with a 2.5 v6 :trampoline:

[p_b82]

i fell in love with them driving round thruxton in a 180 for an experience day...

then took a rover 45 out with the L-series lump in and worked out that the ZS with a derv lump would actually be pretty good....

that was in April 04 and well, you lot know the rest :laugh:

[Smokey]

When I was considering a Mitsubishi FTO v6 and using Autotrader search, stumbled across the mk2 180 and had to have it.

Bought it and had no regrets!

[Bobdope2002]

yep i am stuart

[daytona365]

Saw my first yellow one at the motorshow 2002, fell in love there and then. Heard one on the road,in 2003 and just loved the v6 noise. Never thought Id own one, until last year. Then just looked everyweek until I found him.........

[andys1981]

after i swapped my 2.2 vectra wi a looney for the zs 180,loved it driving home from dundee,miss it a lot lol

[Mr ZS180]

Sometime around 2004 when I had my Rover Coupe Turbo.

There was a TB 180 about 400 yds from my house and I wanted it so bad but they were far too expensive then!!! So glad I got one now though, just wish it went like my Rover did :(

[Craig]

2005, wanted a zs, dealer only had a zr. Had that for 3 great years, met loads of great mates but knew I still wanted a zs. Got my old 180, stupidly got bored of it after 3 years and I have been trying to get back In a v6 ever since lol I like my 120, but miss the smoothness on a v6

[coreygraham180]

I fell in love when my dad first took me for a drive in a mk1 tb zs and felt amazing and again when he got a yellow mk2 180 the magic never stops

[andys1981]

2005, wanted a zs, dealer only had a zr. Had that for 3 great years, met loads of great mates but knew I still wanted a zs. Got my old 180, stupidly got bored of it after 3 years and I have been trying to get back In a v6 ever since lol I like my 120, but miss the smoothness on a v6

+1 mate couldent beleve it when you said it was your old 180,done ma best with her she really was a good yin!!

[caled]

I actually can't remember. Id wanted a mk1 ZS in trophy blue when I was looking around at cars around 2005/06, but couldnt afford one at the time. Got a ford escort instead whilst I was in uni.
Then I was looking around at them again a while later, and found out there was a mk2 version which looks a damn sight better than the mk1.

Got some money through last year, and went off to see a mk2 180 in Chester, guy took me out for a test drive to show me what it could do, and I was amazed as he floored it and I disappeared into the back seat. Awesome cars. Never fails to bring a grin to my face (well, except at the petrol station).

[talkingcars]

We were considering a scobby but the once in our price range locally were all driven by chavs, my wife found this at a trader in autotrader, we went for a test drive around south London on a Tuesday evening and I thought it wanted to go quick, paid my deposit, they did a belt change service and I collected it on the Sunday, drove 10 miles through traffic to the start of the M23 and my first change to give it large, 3 years ago and still loving it.

Then Mrs TC decided she liked the styling but wanted a smaller hatch so got the ZR 6 month later.

[fastmike]

Fell in love with one while in a Rover showroom buying a 25 back in 2002....... couldnt go the extra back then...... bought one in 2009 , got bored with it , sold it and bought a Scooby..... finally decided to get back in one now...... if only I could get it up the stairs.....I,de sleep with it LOL

[stamford]

I was working on the airbags for the 75 and saw the ZT, then went to look at them in the showroom and preferred the ZS. However it was a few years later that I was able to buy one when my girls no longer needed to be taxied around! My first driving experience was at Brands when they ran a few of them.

[Alan.F]

Mine was 2000 when i bought rover 420Di and saw one in the showroom, I bought my first one brandnew in 2003 a ZS 120 had it 5yrs did 73000 miles and never had HGF and to this day its still not had it.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b259/FatGit/My%20Cars/IMG_1480copy.jpg

I then got my first 180 in Jan 09 sold it 1yr later had 29000 on when i bought it and 54000 when i sold it really wish i hadnt sold it it was a minter BUT I WILL get another soon

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b259/FatGit/My%20180/IMG_0025.jpg

[skyblueads]

I still love your 180 Alan. I NEED A SET OF ADDENDUMS!!! :laugh:

I fell for the ZS at launch, I think I saw a pic of Kelvin's blue (Y-reg) car somewhere online. My ZS was the best drivers car I've owned and still compares very favourably to a lot more expensive stuff I have roadtested.

I would never have sold my Zed had we not had our daughter and wanted something easier for my wife to load Lily into. Still at least I've got the 45 to convert to ZS spec!

[SticklesMickles]

I did a swap deal with a lad for my old scooby that had a blown up engine (3k to replace the engine) so the scooby was techically worthless to me.

97 scooby with 130k miles on it (had a mere 56k miles when i bought it)
53 plate ZS 180 with around 50k on it.

I only got the ZS as a means of releasing funds from my old scooby project, it was not till i actually swapped keys/log books and drove the car away did i think "**** me this thing has a great chassis" LOL!

If the recession had of not arrived and lost me 25k through my business, i would have simply replaced the scoobys engine (again! it would have been its 4th rebuild while i owned it :D )

[magpie67]

First saw the ZS at Silverstone when me and the missus went to see Touring cars.

Not sure what year, but i don't think they were actually racing that round !!
Fell in love with them, never thought i would actually own one.

Got the 120 in Dec 2010, hopefully get a 180 in the next few weeks :smile1:

[KevG]

My ZS was the result of me wanting more power!, I had a 2002 Ford Focus 2.0 Ghia that I done an ST replica on, and I was wanting more power from it without spending stupid amounts of cash!!, so a friend of the family is a car salesman at the time he was working for our local MGRover dealer and handed me the 2004 model range brochure, have a look he said we are expecting a few of the newer models next week, so I popped down later on next week and seen a Grey ZS180 that was just literally of the transporter, the family friend spotted me looking at the car asked if I wanted a test drive, he said "pop in on Friday and we will had it valeted", (I did a lot of researching and comparing to my current car at the time, didn't really know about MGRovers at the time), so I did what he asked, but when I arrived at the dealer another guy was pondering whether to buy the car, he had a ZT with a blueflame exhaust on it, which thought was a bit silly trading down to car with the same engine yet smaller!! Anyway I went out in the ZS and if I could smile from ear to ear I was, so a verbal deal was done while driving, after the test drive this other guy took a shot, I said to him "Be careful as that is mine now......!" His face was a picture as I said that to him, as I think he was wanting the car!!
1 week later the the car was mine although I gained an instant 40bhp increase by trading my Focus, I never really got the power I really wanted, but now 7 years later I still have it and still love driving it although filling it with petrol is really painful!

[mattie007]

I fell in love with the new zed range when this picture was leaked on the net in mid/late 2000 when they were simply known as X10,X20,X30. Still remember Top Gear being given special access to the Zeds and giving them a very good review....
As soon as I heard they were going racing in the BTCC, I knew one day I would have one. Always wanted a 180, but the 120 has served me very well in 5 years. At least it looks like a 180 now ;)

http://i52.tinypic.com/29vffvl.jpg

May 2005

http://i55.tinypic.com/5juqo8.jpg

March 2011

http://i54.tinypic.com/24m58i8.jpg

Any excuse for some pics :D

[Huffy]

Hmmmmm... Well I'd not been a fan of the ZS at all..... as a mk2 Golf 16v GTi owner at the time of the launch they went on my radar at all lol I thought they just looked like tarted up 45's!!

It was in 2007, when my scirocco Mk2 started to feel the pressure of commuting from manchester to sunderland that i decided to look for a DERV, being a true VW fan, they're was no way i was going to wast my hard earned HSBC loan on a mk4 "FAT SLOW" golf. I only had 6k to spend, so i was looking at pretty high mileage for a recent model anywhoo's.

I looked at alsorts and in the end i came to the conclusion that I'd have a Seat Leon 20vturbo, or a Focus ST 170. neither were DERVs! lol


But I was still not convinced, on a rainy saturday my brother and i chanced upon the ZS a 54 plate mk2 "Derv" in xpower Grey. I phone my mate andy...... and he Stated that he'd been suggesting one of these all along.... must have missed that! lol


I went for a test drive, all in 30 zones and though eye, its ok..... and it was 5499.00 so well within budget!

Two days later I picked him up.... Monty - My car! named in memory of my Montego back in the day.


Decided to visit my olds for the afternoon and get to know my motor, Snake wass a calling! so drove from manchester to bakewell along the snakes pass......never looked back after that ride!