The 626 was reliable work horse. All the car you would ever need most current new cars bore me.

I think you're spot on with the opinion of 90's car technology. I've said it myself many times. Reliability, performance, safety, ease to repair, longevity of components etc were all that anyone needed. In my opinion, it too was peak times for most decent car manufacturers.

My 1988 626 Gt is still my daily driver since March of 2000

Lots of these things still around here. They are well made.

My grandma had one of these. Bright red auto version. Was a brilliant car for its time. Sadly got written off in about 2008 i think id have been 5 maybe 6 years old. So hard to come across these now sadly

Never owned a 626 but did own its little brother the 323F from 1998. Like the 626 it was well built, practical comfortable and utterly reliable. It was good to drive and a really good looking car. More of a five door coupe than a conventional hatch with frameless windows and low slung driving position. A complete breath of fresh air against the sea of Golf's, Astra's Escort's etc.

The 626 estate was quite a good looking car.

A very good conclusion, there Paul. It still hurts that Rover are no more... if only they had stayed with Honda. Or any other Japanese marque, come to think of it. All ifs and buts though 😣

My old man had a string of interesting and cool cars but appeared to lose his mind in the early 2000s and bought a Mazda Premacy. It looked like this would but if it were a van. It was useful, I used it to move house, the seats would slide back and forth which I suppose is food for someone somewhere and it was easy to drive with light controls and good visibility and as you observe with this Mazda it was very well built. It was also spectacularly boring. It was the same silver as this car which is almost like it has no colour at all and the entire interior, seats, carpet, roof lining and plastics were all the same light grey and that light grey was very similar to the non colour of the outside. It reminded me of an Airfix kit that had been assembled but not painted. It was the car as an appliance, like having a nice, mid range fridge.

Son in law's Dad is a taxi driver. He put over 500, 000 miles on one of these.

Thank you Mr Mustard 🙏

The best-looking 626's were the 2-door 'coupe' versions we had in the 1980s. The specifications were always very high.

A perfect conclusion, I agree it is an automotive nutritionally balanced meal, containing everything you need for a well balanced driving experience. Am I correct in thinking this also came as an estate? The build quality is perfect and looking at your T reg 600 in the background it would have been good to park them side by side for a comparison to put into context the difference in styling.

Mazda 626 with old logo, 1800, 1996, 320 000 km. No electric windows. Still going strong. Greetings from Finland.

I've found an interesting fact about the 626. The Ford Probe sports car was modelled on the 626 platform, using the same engines.

I've recently bought an s reg 2.0 auto se automatic very japanease

Good video Paul 🚗🚙🚘👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️👏👏👏

This car was used by Streetcars in Coronation Street as a taxi years ago.

Oh! Nice intro effects.

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There's one of these lef in my dad's yard by an ex employee. It's got 200k on the clock and has stood for five years at least. I started it up a few months ago and everything was in working order. It would piss through an MOT. I parked a fairly new Volvo up for a year and it needed a plugin into diagnostic tools and a few quid thrown in just to start again. Let alone all the gizmos that had stopped working.

I bought one early 2000s from auction direct from fleet, was 1999 V reg 2.0 glx 70000 miles for £3000 great car very reliable and roomy, for a to b transport hit the bullseye.

2:26 the mk4 was far prettier. It was like the mx6 (which is a car I'd love to own)

It's crustiness that kills them off at MOT time.

bro was absolutely shitting on this car the entire video 😂

My brother had one Paul he like it

I used to have an RX8. Now there is a good looking Japanese car.

Great cars. I've driven a few varieties of 626 over the years ranging from 86 - 99. I used to call them the Apple of cars.. akin to Apple's old slogan of "It just works" (well that was back in the day when Apple and cars "just worked" 😂😂)

I've had 4 mazda 6s and now looking for a 626 for work

Great review , the Japanese got everything right except the idiosyncrasies that gives personality.

I'm sure I saw this car up for sale a few days ago.

That’s not Cavatina ! We’re still waiting.

Excellent review. Damn Japanese. Building motor vehicles that do exactly what they are supposed to do. Furthermore, they had the gall to learn how to engineer vehicles to suit so-called Western driving styles and conditions. Interesting that they are often called 'characterless'; personally, I find reliability, build quality and dependable performance to be highly desirable characteristics.

Wasn't the mk1 Mondeo developed from this chassis?

Looks like a saab

It looks like a Saab 9-3 (O-G) from Wish

У меня такая, только зелёная. Шедевр авто.

If Rover had paired with Mazda instead of Honda, a few Rover styling swishes here and there and perhaps we'd be looking at the Rover 600! My cousin owned his own car body repair business. Every year I'd be taking one of my Minis to have the sills or valances welded and every year he'd laugh and drive home in his Mazda! When a chap like he in the motor trade chose Mazda for himself I think it spoke volumes. It was because they looked so dull I couldn't become interested, but I don't think that at all now - certainly not about this 626 which looks a design of rare beauty aside many a modern car carbuncle! I'm going to stick my neck out and say, in spite of keeping my eyes peeled, no yellow cars featured today! 😀