ROVER 75: BUYER'S GUIDE
Median Price: £2,151 • Highest Price: £30,733 • Lowest Price: £230 • Sell-Through Rate: 76%
Source: Mathewsons
How much is a 75 worth?
In our experience, we've seen plenty of 75's go under the hammer and based on analysing every sale you can expect to pay £2,151 for one in average condition - that places it amongst the cheapest 10% of collector cars across our database.
As Rover's go, a 75 is on the lower end relative to other Rover models. In fact this model is £3,607 below the median Rover price of £5,758.
What is the maximum to pay for a 75?
Across the 104 75's we've seen sell, the highest price ever recorded for this model is £30,733. It was sold by Finarte in Italy on 14 May 2018.
What is the lowest to pay for a 75?
Well, that depends on where you draw the threshold.
The lowest sale of all time for this vehicle is £230. Bonhams sold the car at auction in the UK on 10 Sep 2011.
When looking at more recent sales the lowest recorded price is, as you would expect, higher. Analysing every sale since 2020 shows that the lowest price between 2020 and today is £336, Brightwells sold this car in the UK on 01 Aug 2024.
What is the background of the make / model?
Rover produced this model between 1948 and 2006.
Rover was founded in 1878 in Coventry, England, and became a leading British car brand in 1904. In 1967 it became part of British Leyland Motor Corporation and by 1975 Rover was the second-largest car manufacturer in the UK. In 1988 the Rover brand was sold to British Aerospace and eventually to BMW in 1994. In 2000, the Rover Group was broken up and sold off to various different companies, with the car brand being bought by the Phoenix Consortium, who renamed the company MG Rover. The brand was relaunched in 2015 under Chinese-owned Geely.
How common is a 75?
According to data from the DVLA, the UK licensing authority, in 2022 there were 10,024 licensed vehicles alive and kicking on UK roads. There were also 9,501 vehicles that are SORNd - in other words not currently registered for the road. Note: that data is for this model and all of its sub-models.
Building on that, we've also seen plenty of these go under the hammer at auctions around the world, 136 to be precise. It's among the 8% most common collector cars to sell at auction.
Of those 136 times the model has gone to auction 104 have sold. In other words, this model sells on 76% of times it goes to auction - that's above the average sell-through rate we traditionally see.
How does the 75 compare to other cars?
We know from reviews of this model by our 42,000+ strong community how this car performs across multiple variables. Those variables stack up to give a TCVScore which is a relative score of how good a car is across 5 variables in comparison to all other cars.
For the 75, it scores a 52 out of 100 - that places it in the bottom 20 - 30% of all cars in our database.
How the car scores across all variables is below:
Styling: 5/10
Cool Factor: 3/10
Practicality: 7/10
Handling: 6/10
Speed: 5/10
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Why this article was created
Well, we've got one of the largest databases of sold classic car prices in the world so we thought we ought to help and put that data to good use. To be clear though, this article is not intended to be a full tour of every nook and sill of the 75, rather it's meant to act as an introductory guide and overview of the market for this model.
It is here to provide you guidance on how much you should and shouldn't be paying for one based on the 136 we've seen previously.
If you're after more detail, we've got you covered. Click the button below to be taken to a the price guide for this model so you can see every single sale, price trend over time and lots more.
How this article was created
This article was created by looking back at sales of 75 since the beginning of our database in 1992. We've scanned over 30 auction houses and results from over £15 billion of sold cars around the world to understand the where the market is at for this car.
The Classic Valuer takes that data and analytics which enables it to generate these articles at scale, for further information regarding the 75 please visit the price guide linked below.
About The Author
Giles Gunning
Giles is CEO of The Classic Valuer - one of the world's largest databases of sold classic cars in the world going back over 30 years covering over 11,000 models. Giles and The Classic Valuer are regularly referenced in key classic car publications including Classic & Sports Car.
Giles grew up around the iconic historic motorsport venue at Goodwood and enjoys his 1972 Alfa Romeo 1600 GT Junior around the Sussex roads. His primary car goal is to purchase back a selection of his grandfather's car's including his 1931 Riley Brooklands.
