High performance Rover Metro, 200 and 400 GTi models had gone on sale in late 1989 and throughout 1990 as the MG version of the Metro was discontinued in 1990 and the versions of the Maestro and Montego were axed in 1991.

By 1989 Vauxhall was on roughly equal terms with the Rover Group as Britain's second most popular car brand ( after Ford ).

The Group changed its name again in 1989 to Rover Group Holdings Limited.

* 1989: The new Rover 200 goes on sale, abandoning the four-door saloon bodystyle in favour of a three-and five-door hatchback.

Rover 200 ( 1989 – 1994 )

The Rover Group's first significant new car launch was the Rover 200, which was introduced in October 1989.

Rover 400 ( 1989 – 1994 )

From 1985 to 1989, Austin Rover made upmarket Vanden Plas models within its Metro, Maestro, Montego and Rover SD1 ranges.

Other bright spots in this period included reaching the final of the Freight Rover Trophy at Wembley in 1985, where the team lost to Wigan, and a run to the FA Cup quarter-finals in 1989 which included wins over three higher-division sides and was only ended by the reigning league champions Liverpool.

Following the launch of the new Rover 200 in October 1989, production of the Maestro was pruned back to mostly the entry-level models ( with the MG variants being axed during 1991 ).

With the Rover Group only a few months away, the limited edition ( 500 + 5 press cars ) MG Maestro Turbo ( launched in early 1989 ) was the final car from ARG.

Production of the Maestro, which was already suffering from a decline in sales, was pruned back by autumn 1989 on the launch of the second generation Rover 200, which was aimed at the higher end of the small family car market, with the Maestro being kept on sale as a cheaper alternative with more basic versions available.

By 1988, it was merely the 14th best selling car in Britain, dipping further to 19th place in 1989, the year that the second generation Rover 200 was launched.

Simpson joined The Rover Group from its subsidiary Leyland-DAF in 1988 and took over as managing director in January 1989.

Unusual UK Rover 800 Sterling, c. 1989 / 90, with first-generation " sharp " body panels but later-style Rover " family " grille, applied as an after-market item by the owner

In 1989, ARG was rebranded as Rover Group, the name of its owner.

* 1989: Austin Rover Group is re-branded Rover Group.

From about 1989 onwards, a wider range of models were imported by a new company, Rover New Zealand ; this included sedan versions for the first time.

The third rally, held in April 2001, featured 106 cars, including Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Chris Pontius, the hosts of Jackass, driving a 1989 Jaguar XJ6 ; F1 World champion Damon Hill driving a Lamborghini ; comedian Vic Reeves in a Mercedes-AMG ; Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in a Blower Bentley, entrepreneurs Justin Etzin and Lord Edward Spencer Churchill in a Police Range Rover and Maximillion Cooper in an original Shelby Cobra.

The original 1989 Discovery's looks had been determined by limited funds and the consequent use of first-generation Range Rover components.

200 ( 1989 )

From the late 1940s to 1989, the extensive Czechoslovak Armed Forces ( about 200, 000 ) formed one of the pillars of the Warsaw Pact military alliance.

His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Despite these problems, the number of visitors arriving in Honduras rose from fewer than 200, 000 in 1987 to almost 250, 000 in 1989.

* 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $ 150, 000 in fines and 1, 200 hours community service.

* 1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the " coaster wars ".

* 1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200, 000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

Sometimes the catch is obscene, as in the 1st Earl of Mornington's catch of 1774, " See the bowl sparkles " in which, at bars 5-8 the different parts sing and hold, successively, the words " see ", " you ", " end " and " tea " which are innocuous in the context of each part separately but clearly spell out " cunt " in performance ( no 200 in The Aldrich Book of Catches ( 1989 )).

He was sentenced by U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $ 150, 000 in fines, and 1, 200 hours community service.

The March of Dimes sponsored five international conferences in June 1974, November 1977, May 1981, June 1984, and June 1989 and published articles from the conferences in book form in 1979, 1982, 1986, and 1991 from seven longitudinal prospective cohort studies on the development of over 300 children and young adults with sex chromosome abnormalities identified in the screening of almost 200, 000 consecutive births in hospitals in Denver, Edinburgh, New Haven, Toronto, Aarhus, Winnipeg, and Boston from 1964 to 1975.

More than 200 investors, particularly garment manufacturers, were organized under the country ’ s export processing zone ( EPZ ) system since it was established in 1989.

South African foreign minister, Pik Botha, announced on 28 September 1989 that 1, 200 ex-Koevoet members would be demobilized with effect from the following day.

* 1989 — Margaret Geller and John Huchra discover the " Great Wall ", a sheet of galaxies more than 500 million light years long and 200 million wide, but only 15 million light years thick,

" Playing the Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism and Shakespearean Performance ", Theatre Journal, 41: 2 ( May, 1989 ), 190 – 200

* 1989: Bangladesh Rural Telecom Authority got license to operate exchanges in 200 upazilla.

The band's most successful records are Under the Influence ( 1988 ), The Years of Decay ( 1989 ) and I Hear Black ( 1993 ), which debuted at No. 142, No. 155 and No. 122 respectively on the Billboard 200 charts.

His cover art for Amazing Spider-Man # 313, for which he was originally paid $ 700 in 1989, for example, would later sell for $ 71, 200 in 2010.

The average size of the program grew to 100 – 200 students up until 1988 and in 1989 peaked exponentially at 1200 participants.

Kalamainu ' u killed the informants ( Craig 1989: 95, 218, Beckwith 1940: 193, 200 ).

Rostock's population dropped from nearly 260, 000 in 1989 to about 200, 000 today, primarily due to suburbanisation but also due to emigration to more prosperous western regions of Germany.

Over 200, 000 Tauruses were sold during the 1986 model year, and in 1989, the millionth Taurus was sold.

By the end of 1989, Hangin ' Tough had climbed to number one on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart and had gone eight-times platinum.

After the shows ' runs ended, Sony Corporation acquired Guber-Peters Entertainment ( formerly Barris Industries ) for $ 200 million on September 29, 1989, a day after Sony Corporation of Japan acquired Columbia Pictures Entertainment.

L. A. débuts included Warrant with Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich ( 1989 ), and Skid Row with their eponymous album ( 1989 ), which reached number six in the Billboard 200, but they were to be one of the last major bands that emerged in the glam metal era.