Not seen one of these for a while..

I am going to 'overschlog' now.

My father owned five of these. Two for himself (one after the other), one as a 'parts car', one for his transport manager and one converted to the Ford V4 engine for another member of staff.

His main love for these cars after the smoothness of the engines, was the huge interior space. The dashboard was a long narrow strip under the windscreen with a long wand of a gearstick. This was the result (according the Stephen Bailey who did a critique in Octane magazine a couple of years back) of running out of money to do a proper interior design. It meant that you could put a suitcase in the middle under the dash.

When the aerodynamic Audi 100 was launched the C pillar and rear haunches were clearly taken from the Ro80.

One of those cars that didn't sell well, but influenced many others.

Haven't seen one in at least ten years. Lucky you... Still a great looking car.

I reckon it belongs to that bloke under the tree.

One appears in the first episode of the BBC adaptation of Le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl — which does the late-70s ambiance superbly in many other ways too. I watched it with Boy1 — putative Mech Eng student— who turned out to know all about the Wankel engine and its more recent Mazda incarnations.

Nah... he's going the other way round the corner......and looks almost exactly like someone who doesn't own a RO80.

A Ro80? Or an Ro80? Never been sure how to say it — not that I’ve often needed to.

Sigh

Not an Ro80, but probably just as rare in the UK...

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