Is the Rover 75 a Cult Car?

No.

Isn’t this thread a regurgitation of the thread a couple of weeks ago asking if it was a pastiche? I feel all the responses will be similar if not the same.

I love the 75, but it’s no cult car, it just isnt. It may be 20 yrs down the line. but not now

@ Mark Mastro. Well “pastiche” (I did just have to look this up, lol) means imitating a something from the past (art, music, etc) whereas “cult” can mean a “misplaced or or excessive admiration or worshipping of one thing” or paying homage to something. Well, you could argue that the 75, being the last, and some would say one of the best, cars to come out of Rover, this could mean the 75 is a homage to Rover itself. It all depends on how you look at it.

And lets not forget that theres a few of cult cars under the radar. Ever heard of the Talbot T-150? I certainly hadn’t until I did some hasty research on cult cars, and they seem to have a bit of a following.

I suppose it depends on what you define as excessive worshipping – cult.

I mean there are groups who excessively worship their Marina or Allegro.
http://www.morrismarina.org.uk/
http://www.allegroclubint.org.uk/

So either ‘could’ be described as cult cars using the strictest definition of the term, though i think the majority of people wouldn’t describe them as cult cars.

Compared to say the Mini, Morris Minor, Beetle, Fiat 500, MGB, even the 2CV they’re nothing like in the same league.
I think the term ‘cult car’ is reserved for really the cars with the very biggest enthusiast following and usually that goes with Cheap cars, because there are generally more of them to worship.
It’s a bit like comparing the Church of Scientology with some back street religious cult with 5 members who meet in a garden shed once a week. They’re both technically ‘cults’.

I think the R75 is already a classic in the same way the P4, P5 and P6 are but i’m not sure they’ll ever become a true cult car.

Frankie – It’s not a cult car yet, but as Mike says and as I said also in my first post down the line, it may well be (and I hope it is). Your defnition of cult is one of a number of definitions of the word (and in actual fact the wrong one in this context IMO)

Sorry I meant to say “@ Mark Mastro.”