Quote Originally Posted by Tatra Man View Post
There's a big difference between 'rarer' and 'more desirable'. Yes, the grille is a huge improvement over the normal bland 75 grille and possibly better looking than the Mk.II MG grille but it isn't a patch on the Mk.I MG grille and, personally, I would never go for the automatic gearbox version - which almost all Rovers are and almost no MGs are.
When I say that i think the Rover is more desirable than the MG I mean that there are probably more buyers per car available and the sale price is likely to be higher for the Rover than the MG,not that I prefer it or more people in total would prefer it.

I totally agree with you about grills and manual gearbox,and your car is the very one I wanted when I first started looking at 260s but couldn't justify buying it recently as it would be cheaper for me to get my Tourer resprayed Trophy Blue and put a MK1 front and back end put on.