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The VehiCROSS is only the third Isuzu in my collection, one of which I made myself. The Rodeo is only an Isuzu because it was originally sold in the US; like the real thing, Matchbox labeled it an Opel, Vauxhall, or Holden in other parts of the world, so it's one of the few Matchbox cars where the make/model are printed instead of being molded into the base. #WeirdCarMastodon #Diecast #164scale #Isuzu

Yesterday Rover R30, today BMW E87. What’s the link? Well the first-generation 1-Series certainly isn’t just an R30 with a BMW badge - it’s rear-wheel drive rather than FWD and it shares a lot with the E90 3-Series. But there is a persistent industry rumour that much of E87 from the windscreen backwards is borrowed from the unrealised R30. As far as I know this has never been confirmed but does seem at least plausible to me. Local car park photo.

It should have been out on the road. Instead, it lives in a glass case in a museum - the British Motor Museum, to be precise. This is R30. More specifically, it’s a 1/4 scale model of an early iteration of the car that was meant to replace Rover’s 25 and 45. Apparently a production-ready prototype existed by 2000 but after BMW abandoned MG Rover, the R30 never saw the light of day. That may not quite be the end of the story, though. More tomorrow…