Revealed at the Longbridge plant’s Conference Centre in November 2003, RDX60 has been dubbed MG Rover’s “last chance saloon”. Based on the underpinnings of a Rover 75, there was hope that this prototype would be developed to production. The ailing MG Rover company, recently dropped by BMW, desperately needed some success with a new model. It was thought that a mid-sized car would be the answer to the company’s financial woes.

During RDX60’s development the team had to work with extremely limited resources in a small design studio set up at Longbridge as the previous Design Department at Gaydon had been turned over to Land Rover during the Rover break-up in 2000. A third-party contractor, Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR), was engaged to help get the prototype built. During a project freeze in early 2003, TWR went into administration, sounding the death knell to the project. After various attempts to restyle the car, impetus was lost, and the project was eventually dropped.