Due to some 18 year old writing off my parked Rover 25 runabout the other week I quickly sourced another cheap car to use as a spare whilst I get the families cars through their MOT's. MOT till May 2017 and looked in canny nick. Found it was in a desperate need of a service and had a few other little jobs to get to my preferred standard of use. I have just found that it seems reluctant to rev beyond 3000rpm. On the drive back from the auction it seemed OK but I did keep to the speed limits so did nor rev it too freely. Having changed all the filters I started her up and pressed the throttle fully to find the revs peaked to just below 3000 rpm. Any of you guys familiar with these cars/engine combo any leaders of what could be the cause?