The picture above shows what the first Rover 75 based coupe looked like...
Too bad I can't find a bigger picture...
I saw it first in a car magazine, a few months after the market introduction of the Rover 75, a typical British car that I admired from the very beginning. I remember a quote of a car journalist, saying that the "Seventy Five" looked more 'upper class' than the Jaguar S-type that was launched in the same year
I agree that they completely ruined the front when they facelifted the car... The Audi-like grill doesn't suit the car, IMO.
The coupe interior is nice, but the color combination sucks... and I'm afraid the interior looks outdated anno 2007 in comparison to the competition. If they find the money, they should redesign the interior, modernize it while keeping enough British touches... not as radical as the new Jaguar C-XF interior that is...