Now we're talking! The different grill used on the V8s (and stretched models) also looked a lot better than the ordinary facelift. There was a cheap (ex-PSNI) V8 for sale recently that was very tempting but it was unfortunately located in NI and was probably fairly tired following police service.

If I remember correctly, all the remaining MG Rover cars had to be registered by an 08 plate explaining why these were registered then.