Watch Richard Hammond's Workshop in the UK: bit.ly/Hammond-H8-YT

@chdreturns

5 ай бұрын

Wish it was in the US

@ethanmonat

5 ай бұрын

@@chdreturns Just use a VPN

@ripvanwinkle2002

5 ай бұрын

i wish that aqua underglow was actually on the car nothing says 90s tune like underglow..

@laurahertzman943

5 ай бұрын

​@@ethanmonatFor the 1 millionth time: IT DOESN'T WORK WITH A VPN!!!

@laurahertzman943

5 ай бұрын

I live in the US. That link is worthless to me. 😒

That is a beauty. It's is great to see an old British "performance" getting another lease on life, with a great paint job.

@knoxyish

3 ай бұрын

british?? the only thing British about it is the name they were and still are badge engineered Hondas built in kits from japan !! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ironic that Mike advertises RHW as "if you want to see more of what the Smallest Cog can do" when Drivetribe shows more of Richard Hammond's Workshop than Richard Hammond's Workshop does, in the current season anyway. I'd love to see more of what they do.

@azzajames7661

5 ай бұрын

Richard Hammonds workshop spends more time everywhere else than in Richard Hammonds workshop, lol 😆

@bghoody5665

5 ай бұрын

That's the exact reason I stopped watching the show after season one - a show about a car restoration shop that shows zero cars being restored.

@MichaelBradley1967

5 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Groucho Marx roasting Johnny Carson by talking about all the other people hosting the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson who weren't Johnny Carson.

A 30 year old design which still looks as understated and elegant as the day it was launched.

@basshead.

5 ай бұрын

Like most cars from the 90s lol.

These just keep getting better and better! Mike's really coming into his own too. Excellent production allround as well! Love everything Smallest Cog related too.

Love the love you're giving to all old MGs and Rovers Mike! If only the 55 and 35 had gotten their chance...

The 620 Ti is the most underrated Rover perhaps of all time. My Dad has 3 in the 90s and it was a joy watching Nova’s and Escorts try to keep up and just the disbelief when this Rover saloon pulled away from them 😂

My Grandad had a 620 SLI (sans turbo), which my dad inherited for a short while until the gearbox gave up. Makes me so nostalgic. The Japanese / British collab was brilliant-felt like you got the best of both.

This is a nice car. The color's awesome and glad to know it'll be driven again.

Nice to see Rover getting some love. I was a big fan back in the day tbh.

Its always a pleasure to watch people who are so skilled in any field. This was a wonderful example of what can be done with an older car. I hope the mechanics hold up!

Phenomenal Job done by the team at the Smallest Cog 👏😍🔧 Well done, Mike, for saving an extremely beautiful Rover 🤗 🙌 "LET'S MAKE ROVER BRILLANT AGAIN" 🙌

As a long-time Rover fan (I've been round the 'Ring in a nightfire red 620Ti!) this video made me grin from ear to ear.

Had two of these and loved them. Prefer the smaller soft spoiler, or even no spoiler at all myself, but glad to see one of thse lovely cars being appreciated. Get a bit fed up with people knocking Rovers.

@simoncarney9944

5 ай бұрын

I agree! They were very underrated back in the day, I had two Montegos and a 400 as company cars and 3 MG Metros as private cars. Loved them all. Would have loved to have a 600 but only had one as a birthday treat for a day.

@leeallen1407

5 ай бұрын

As a Rover fan i totally agree , i get fed up of rovers been knocked as well.....iv'e just bought another SD3 216SE...can't wait to pick it up ,

its great to see a job finished in one video, really enjoy seeing a job on a project finished

I had one of these in 2000. I had a piggyback ECU, wastegate, coil overs and exhaust done on it, all followed by a full day at a Dyno. Ut generated 280bhp in the day, which was a lot for the front wheels. Even with a LSD it Torque steered like a monster. It did however return a reliable 5.5 seconds 0-60mph. It also flew under the radar of the constabulary because it looked so boring. Great car.

@neilmick6778

5 ай бұрын

When you were doing all your drug running?

I'm glad Mike likes a Rover, not enough big channels giving Rover attention

Loving this episode, the banter between Mike and guys cracks me up.

Stunning paint job ,a true professional.

Great job done on this, and looks amazing 👍👍

I had a Tomcat 220 Coupe Turbo in early 2000s, it was the best car of the era with this engine… It was M3 killer 😎💪 Lovely old days with old school cars..

@trumontstory686

5 ай бұрын

I had a Tomcat too. Drove quite well horrible suspension, rattly removable roof panels and totally unreliable Blew it's main oil seal at 22,000 miles. I traded it quickly for a BMW and never looked back.

@Roverturbo

5 ай бұрын

Everyone says the 220 coupe (tomcat) was the best, every true rover enthusiast knows the 220 turbo was better, the 420 turbo, even better than that. ❤

@ErsinCetinkaya19777

5 ай бұрын

Yes, reliability was the problem, I have had replaced; throttle body, turbo, steering, A/C compressor, water pump and finally pistons and valves 🤦🏻‍♂️ But I have enjoyed each moment I have driven. With regards to the engine; 220 - 420 - 620 - 820 ti had all same engine with some minor changes. I loved 220 due to my young age, later on I liked 4 and 6 but in the end I loved 8.20ti the most (in those days) which was a big sleeper car that nobody knows

That is a gorgeous piece of history you have there. Very cool!

Always wanted to see someone show some love to the 600, my 629SLI was my second car. thank you Mike

I had a 'phase 2' facelift ti in white gold. Absolutely storming car. Never let me down and gave me plenty of smiles! Tgis particular ti is looking absolutely incredible, a credit to you and all who worked their magic on the body!

Cayman blue and knightfire red two of the best colours on the 600 . Had a few back around 10 years ago (albeit honda petrol and rover diesel engines) Fab car. That colour coded front splitter PERFECT!!

I've always loved Rovers. My parents had Rovers for years and from 1995 to 2017 all of my cars were Rovers. Starting with an 800 Vitesse Fastback, then an 800 Vitesse Sport Coupe followed by two Rover 75 2.0L Tourers, both of which covered 155,000 and 124,000 miles in the time I had them. Sadly, I couldn't find a decent second hand replacement in 2017 so am now in a Toyota which is just as reliable as the all of my Rovers were but it's not the same.

Lovely to see a british classic being brought back

@SilverfoxJB

5 ай бұрын

"classic" that's a stretch

@c_lakindick

5 ай бұрын

@@SilverfoxJB Ok, old man. It is 30 years old, and I know that hurts, and I'm sorry for that.

Brilliant episode and it is great to see a 600 bought back to life but the name of the colour wasn't the only slight mistake. The 600 was built at Cowley and not Longbridge, whoops. How do I know that, I worked in CAB 1 Longbridge.

I love the old rover mgr paint options. Moonshine being the absolute top tier, and they did two versions of that with a grey or silver base. Compare to that nowadays where you're lucky if your average new car has more than 10 options for paint.

@azzajames7661

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, like which shades of grey do you want, as it only comes in one, lol 😆

lol i was one of the german high speed test drivers where we tested the austin rover and jags on the A 45 ... the 800 and the 600ti were fun to drive specially as we had erlkönig cars with more power than you got later in the production but it was fun to drive 278 km/h real ones not speedometer ones with a rover 800 salon .. was so fun to hunt porsches which stopped at 260 km/h

I know the guy who owned this before the Isle of Wight owner. I have had many conversations about this car before you guys received it. Love that you're saving it

Never had so much exposure of my air freshener in my life. I do adore how it's turned out. The Rover sport 620ti spoiler is beyond rare.

The one thing that always stood out the most to me about Rover/MG was indeed their incredible paint colours. So when i came to fully restore/respray my Honda S2000 they were the first thing that came to my mind. I settled on MG/Rover HFF, a stunning pearlescent shade of british racing green with a tiiiiny hint of blue in it. Everytime i look at the car i fall in love with this colour again. I love that you give so much love to these cars most would consider as worthless. They are a part of our history and trigger a great bit of nostalgia.

Back in 98 I almost bought a nice black 216 GTi as my 1st car , and when I opened the hatch to see the lugage space... I found that one of the hatch hinges was broken ... (it had only 3 or 4 years old at the time ...) ... Since then I never ever seen another car with a broken boot /hatch hinge ... So I bought a Citroen Xantia and never cross my mind to buy a rover ever again ... But this one is nice , I like the beetle green paint job ,remembers my metallic green Xantia :D

Looks great. Rover is a huge part of the UK motoring history, and the ones left should be saved.

Aw, p427vkh rip, had a white 620ti 20 years ago, loved it!! Only issues were window regulators and oe clutches weren't strong enough!! Real sleeper, yours looks amazing now!!

Lol, as an Aussie, I loved the Heath Ledger “A Knight’s Tale” reference. : )

That is amazing looking, very classy!

Not sure what it was about this episode but it's probably one of the best ones yet. The rover looks properly mint now. Iv got the same problems with the windscreen trim clips on my civic marlin.

wonderful car! Respect, Mike and the all team of this car shop!!!!

Enjoying this one as I used to own a 1992 Rover 220 Gti in… Kingfisher Blue (the real one). I loved it. When Mike was banging on about it in his first video I thought he was misguided as it looked much lighter than the Kingfisher Blue I remembered. It was actually a darker colour than Cayman and in my humble opinion much nicer.

1500 quid car with 20 grands worth of work just the way a project car should be. Mike is such a great presenter of the channel. So funny. 👏👍

@Dex60

5 ай бұрын

And once finished it will still be a 2 grand car!

@SpitfireFortyFour

5 ай бұрын

​@@Dex60To be fair to Mike the only other 620TI for sale at the moment is up for 6k. He might be onto something with the 600-Series!

issac with that big wrench in one of those montages didnt go unnoticed!

This is prime youtube viewing. Thanks for making a wonderful video. Jaguar XJS also had Kingfisher Blue as a paint option.

Great video. Production, cast and crew funnies, editing.

Regardless of it's name, that is a beautiful colour😍 Well done, Andrew👏

Love the shape of that car. My dad once had a 620si, the one with a Honda Accord engine. Nice car!

I saw a brand new 620 soon after their launch in that lovely liquid deep red metallic paintwork. I’ve been seriously in love with deep metallic reds ever since…❤️

@phuketexplorer

5 ай бұрын

Pearlescent Nightfire, if memory serves me right. I had a 100 series Rio in the same colour

🤣 "Fair play Mike you bring me some shyte" haha cracked me up

We had a BRG 60ti in 1998/9. As a 16 year old I remember it being rapid (for the time) and those recaro seats were really comfortable. The turbo started to give up within 3 years of ownership. Never did find out what caused it, as a company car it was given back and replaced.

mint! nice work lads!

Love this. Big up lad. Completely agree. Make Rover great again

Love it! I did wonder why you kept calling it Kingfisher Blue, my Grandad had one of these brand new back in the day in the same Cayman Blue! brings back memories.

Surprised that there is no rust below the fuel cap. All the Honda Accords and Rover 600 I know are crunchy in that area 😮

I think you’ll find that the paint job wasn’t saved, it was utterly scrapped and redone…

@BenjaminSignor

5 ай бұрын

yeah bit confusing a the start talking about "saving" the paint job, then an entire video about a full respray, then again at the end posing the opening question again while standing in front of a fully resprayed car and saying yep it could be saved.... script writers need to check what the difference is between a respray and "saving paint work" means.

@azzajames7661

5 ай бұрын

Too right😉 It wasn't a paint saving buff job that did it🤔It was a sand down to bare metal and full respray. Instead😆

@michaelc5437

5 ай бұрын

Maybe they recovered all the original pigment from the sanding dust and reapplied it. “Full original paint”. It’s really the only way to go with such a historically significant car.

Nice work, but you didnt "save" the paint. That is entirely new paint on the exterior of the car

It actually looks beautiful. Lovely colour.

I think the spoiler and splitter do a lot for the car. Before it looked like any old vanilla Rover 600-series, now it looks like a more performance version. A minor lowering, maybe a touch of fruit in the exhaust and I think it'll look the business.

All of these Drivetribe videos are what Richard Hammond's workshop show should be like.

It’s an impressive lack of corrosion for a Rover. I had a Rover 100 (“Nightfire”, a very exciting name for a very dull car) of a similar vintage which was more rust than bodywork. The K engine outlived the body by quite some distance as I sold it to a 200 owner who needed a replacement after a timing belt failure.

I had a 620ti. It was very fast and definitely a wolf in sheeps clothing. It didn't handle particularly well and had a host of problems....wrong exhaust section fitted...wastegate valve broke off.... auxiliary belt shredded when i was going (too) fast....the aftermarket air con used to blow the cooling fan fuse causing the car to overheat in traffic.... bobbling rust around one rear wheel arch at 7 years old. Electric aerial sometimes got stuck....the recarro seats were really nice.

Looks great, always liked these

We want to see Hammond often

@furianozaurus6457

5 ай бұрын

I think he is shooting new episodes for another show

@lettuce984

5 ай бұрын

I think Richard and James have got a bit bored of the whole drivetribe/what’s next shebang so they left an annoying Scotsman to do all the presenting

Fab video! BEWARE, if the same/similar to my old Honda Accord with rear spoiler, make sure you turn the stereo off to lower the aerial before pulling the remote boot release, otherwise the person opening the boot will break that aerial!!! Happened to me TOO many times.

Wow. A Rover 620ti. My late father worked for MG Rover for 38 years. I had a Rover 620 many years ago. It was a great car. Just it had seen better days.

Roger 600 was made in oxford. I worked on the launch team before BMW took over. The 75 was also launched in oxford, before it was moved to longbridge. That's when the mini came back to oxford.

Nice to see a Rover still alive and up paint job by the guys.

It came out beautifully

so nice to see a 600 being restored, used to have a 600 called Reggie to!

My very first car was a 1967 Opel kadet, almost just like Oliver except it was off-white, loved that little car.

Looks brilliant!!....kingfisher blue was on the 97ish a4 audi red i era

My gramps had a black 620SI in 2003 on 18Inch 1000Miglia wheels slammed to the ground. It replaced his e36 320I M-sport in Maroon. He got a Astra GSI 16V in black after the Rover as it was slammed to the ground and he needed a hatch (and some army soldier was into the Rover)

In August, This Very 600 TI Guest appeared on The NWBL Stand at The Tatton Park Classic Car Show, Very Nice, Glad it's being restored

Great car. The continual slagging ooff of Rover does get a bit tiresome however

She is looking great again, i know i'm going to hold for some grief for saying this but i'm soon going to be looking for a Rover 75 from the same era, love the classic looks, will have to see if i can get a suspension upgrade as i'm told that theyre quite soft in that department.

@Hairysnid

5 ай бұрын

Fit MG ZT suspension

@johnmoruzzi7236

5 ай бұрын

The later 75s sort of had that (and steering ?) anyway I understand...@@Hairysnid

This is a great story!👍

As the owner of a 1991 Honda Accord Aerodeck, I feel duty bound to remind one and all, that underneath that Rover dress, is the 1989 - 1992 Honda Accord! And I mean exactly the same. The basic 2.0 ltre Rover even had the same Honda engine. So double wishbone suspension all round no less. Definitely a car worth saving. Well done. If only it had the 4WS system from the top Accord...

My dad had one of these it was sooo comfortable to drive and a real sleeper

Not even a Rover fan but this video was a really great bit of fun.

I’ve always quite liked these, back in 2008 or so mu local garage gave me a 620SLi as a courtesy car. It was very pleasant but I did feel like Alan Partridge driving it.

Kingfishers are actually brown. The bright blue colour you perceive is due to a phenomenon called structural colouration. Structural colouration is seen throughout the animal kingdom and makes creatures appear much more colourful than they actually are. So while the coloured pigments in the kingfisher’s feathers are brown, you actually view them as a brilliant blue.

The brothers at smallest cog are artists❤

The 600s were always handsome beasts, and this one is now looking fabulous!

As a native Texan I now recognize the influence Top Gear and Grand Tour have had on me that even without lights, grille and badges I knew it was a Rover.

Beautiful car. Would have never have thought it till it watch this… recently seen early mondeo’s tastefully modded (like an oem btcc car stlyle kinda) like this and again would never thought it

I think going into business with those gentlemen is probably one of the smartest business decisions he's ever made. Those boys are worth their weight mate. To have that knowledge and know how can't be bought. It's earned. If I had the money, you blokes would be no1 on my list to work on my gear. Well done. 🤟😎👍🚛🚛🚛

That Laguna splitter making me feel all nostalgic

I love seeing these old Rovers get some love and attention. I own a 2004 Rover 25. It’s a real shitbox, but it does have character. It’s amazing what you’ve done with that 620, looks mint 👌🏻

Awesome paint job 😎

200bhp, 0-60 in 7 seconds, looks comfy and has aged well, very nice!!

I fully agree with “Make Rover Great Again” as a Rover 200 BRM owner!! Goed job, a beautiful rare Rover saved again!

many years ago i worked in a place called macco, it was a place you could bring your car for a quick paint job for for cheap. we would get cars with paint like this all the time, i would mix 2k clear and 2k primer together spray the panels with paint like this and it would fill in the cracks and scratches, let id dry for 30 minutes and then paint the car with urethane single stage paint and it would look ok, i even painter my dad's pick up like that 20 years ago, its black and he still has it and it still looks ok. i dont know if that can still be done cause they might not make those materials anymore but when they said it could be done i was very skeptical.

Not sure it was a Rover colour originally... 1993/4 Ford Mondeos were done in Cayman Blue :) They were pretty hard to get hold of though to begin with. Dad wanted one but ended up with a Red one due to how hard it was to get Cayman Blue

Wow stunning Andrew is such a crafts man

It is a lovely car... You've made Rover GREAT again... I'm looking forward to further videos...

@johnmoruzzi7236

5 ай бұрын

British-Japanese classic... definitely !

While I enjoy these videos, you should include the actual cost to a normal customer do this work.

@Snarfcat

5 ай бұрын

A normal person would not waste their money

@Markap1390

5 ай бұрын

I completely agree with you.

@boziewz6125

5 ай бұрын

​@Snarfcat I think that all depends on the car and the person. If it was a metro (the one pictured) I most definitely would.

@POLESTAR757

5 ай бұрын

@@Snarfcat i just dont get the appeal of that rover at all

@Rickster621

5 ай бұрын

A total respray is around 4k£ if you do the work first like sanding and body filling.

Master Andrew, what an epic character!🫡🤙🏻😂

Beautiful. I owned a Kingfisher blue Mini. Definitely a lighter colour than that. The 620Ti was such a sleeper. I had a dark charcoal one, that some idiot had painted the grille blue! I painted it charcoal to match the body and the whole car looked very purposeful. 6-spoke alloys and the original factory wing/spoiler, like yours. Does yours have the leather bucket seats? What a mega car that was, especially for A-road barnstorming. Sold it to a neighbour when I emigrated to the U.S., otherwise I’d still be driving it 19 years later! 😀 I wonder if it still survives? M51FFE?

Love it! Wrong badge on the back though! 99 models didn't say 620Ti

Gotta say, that is a pretty sick blue on that Rover.