[darrenp60]

Knowing Scalextric for what appears important to them then I am sure this thing is properly proportioned but I could be wrong.  I remember seeing these Rover SD1 vehicles through the 'vitrine' of a brand motor dealership one winter's night on the way back from the pub in the city centre whilst as a law undergraduate at Sheffield University - back circa 1983.  As 'road' cars, these were touted to the 'motoring executives' of the day.  They certainly were 'big and wide' by UK's 1980s set of expectations and I best recall some of them were fitted with 3.5 litre engines and so the 1970s petrol crisis was, by then, truly done and dusted.  Thatcher's little 'revolution' was well and truly underway and these were no doubt part and parcel to the 'feel good'.  In some semi inebriated state that day I did ask myself whether one of these or something similar would be my destiny?  I currently run around north Bucks in my 1018 Ford Focus and so I am pleased things turned out 'a little' differently.  I recall Scalextric made one of these somewhat contemporaneously.  Personally, I find these things 'box standard' and never anything special and so I cannot, for the life in me, understand just precisely why the business should come over all nostalgic and decide to revisit them?   I suppose that the fathers of some of these young model makers and designers evented to drive these 'bricks'.  We are mostly all truly fond of our fathers and so therein lies 'the catch'?  Roll 'em over and crush 'em.  It's already happened.  Next.