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[Kevin Wood]

2 stroke Diesel engines?

Plenty of them in marine and rail use. Never seem to have made it down to the smaller scale a car would require.

I heard a rumour that Ford initially designed the Ka to take a new design of two stroke GDI engine but the EU started specifying not only what emissions standards car manufacturers had to meet but how they were to do it, and this rendered it still-born. So, they had a rummage in the parts bin and found the only engine that was suitable was the horrible old cast iron OHV engine it eventually got saddled with.

Kevin

[Pitchfork]

2 stroke Diesel engines?

Plenty of them in marine and rail use. Never seem to have made it down to the smaller scale a car would require.

I heard a rumour that Ford initially designed the Ka to take a new design of two stroke GDI engine but the EU started specifying not only what emissions standards car manufacturers had to meet but how they were to do it, and this rendered it still-born. So, they had a rummage in the parts bin and found the only engine that was suitable was the horrible old cast iron OHV engine it eventually got saddled with.

Kevin

Alfa-Romeo had a 2.4l in the late 80's
 2 strokes are in theory twice as powerful as 4 strokes & I'm sure that with today's technologies, emission concerns can be overcome
 

[Martin_1962]

2 stroke Diesel engines?

Try fitting this under the bonnet

[Jay w]

.......
Yep, from Buick, to be precise... hence the B designation in Rover P2B.  

P[size=16]5[/size]B surely.

Yes  

My dyslexia is taking-over sometimes...

Wasn't the P5b the Coupe & the P5 a normal Saloon :question

No. There was a coupe & saloon in both straight 6 & V8 ie B for Buick form http://www.roverp5club.org.uk/
They would be towards the top of my lottery winning wish list.

Indeed... one of the best looking cars ever... which was also the basis of the recent Chrysler 300C.

Incidentally... does anyone remember the opening scene in Wim Winder's 1991 movie 'Until the End of the World'? The one with the Rover and the 'kisses sweeter than wine' soundtrack? A classic....

i've learnt something new today.....and looking at it i can see the connection, high wasteline, small windows, big grill

[Markjay]

.......
Yep, from Buick, to be precise... hence the B designation in Rover P2B.  

P[size=16]5[/size]B surely.

Yes  

My dyslexia is taking-over sometimes...

Wasn't the P5b the Coupe & the P5 a normal Saloon :question

No. There was a coupe & saloon in both straight 6 & V8 ie B for Buick form http://www.roverp5club.org.uk/
They would be towards the top of my lottery winning wish list.

Indeed... one of the best looking cars ever... which was also the basis of the recent Chrysler 300C.

Incidentally... does anyone remember the opening scene in Wim Winder's 1991 movie 'Until the End of the World'? The one with the Rover and the 'kisses sweeter than wine' soundtrack? A classic....

i've learnt something new today.....and looking at it i can see the connection, high wasteline, small windows, big grill

To confuse matters further....:

[markey mark]

somebodys been messing in photoshop !!

[Vamps]

.......
Yep, from Buick, to be precise... hence the B designation in Rover P2B.  

P[size=16]5[/size]B surely.

Yes  

My dyslexia is taking-over sometimes...

Wasn't the P5b the Coupe & the P5 a normal Saloon :question

No. There was a coupe & saloon in both straight 6 & V8 ie B for Buick form http://www.roverp5club.org.uk/
They would be towards the top of my lottery winning wish list.

Indeed... one of the best looking cars ever... which was also the basis of the recent Chrysler 300C.

Incidentally... does anyone remember the opening scene in Wim Winder's 1991 movie 'Until the End of the World'? The one with the Rover and the 'kisses sweeter than wine' soundtrack? A classic....

i've learnt something new today.....and looking at it i can see the connection, high wasteline, small windows, big grill

To confuse matters further....:

God, if only, I am drooling, bit of a big rover fan on the quiet.
 

[Vamps]

.......
Yep, from Buick, to be precise... hence the B designation in Rover P2B.  

[highlight]P[size=16]5[/size]B surely.[/highlight]

Yes  

My dyslexia is taking-over sometimes...

Wasn't the P5b the Coupe & the P5 a normal Saloon :question

No. There was a coupe & saloon in both straight 6 & V8 ie B for Buick form http://www.roverp5club.org.uk/
They would be towards the top of my lottery winning wish list.

Indeed... one of the best looking cars ever... which was also the basis of the recent Chrysler 300C.

Incidentally... does anyone remember the opening scene in Wim Winder's 1991 movie 'Until the End of the World'? The one with the Rover and the 'kisses sweeter than wine' soundtrack? A classic....

i've learnt something new today.....and looking at it i can see the connection, high wasteline, small windows, big grill

Don't forget they carried the engine onver the the P6, and beyond, hence P6B
 

[Pitchfork]

2 stroke Diesel engines?

Try fitting this under the bonnet

Flat (Boxter style)  :question

[Jay w]

.......
Yep, from Buick, to be precise... hence the B designation in Rover P2B.  

P[size=16]5[/size]B surely.

Yes  

My dyslexia is taking-over sometimes...

Wasn't the P5b the Coupe & the P5 a normal Saloon :question

No. There was a coupe & saloon in both straight 6 & V8 ie B for Buick form http://www.roverp5club.org.uk/
They would be towards the top of my lottery winning wish list.

Indeed... one of the best looking cars ever... which was also the basis of the recent Chrysler 300C.

Incidentally... does anyone remember the opening scene in Wim Winder's 1991 movie 'Until the End of the World'? The one with the Rover and the 'kisses sweeter than wine' soundtrack? A classic....

i've learnt something new today.....and looking at it i can see the connection, high wasteline, small windows, big grill

To confuse matters further....:

now if that was the real thing Rover wouldn't have collapsed into the mire it did....and i would be driving one now

however it would need a head gasket at every service and depreciation would be even worse than it suffers as a Chrysler

[MaxV6]

can I just remind people that the Rover 800 series was called the Rover Belgrano by the chaps in Blue .....   they were NOT popular round here....   where the Senny was the preferred weapon of choice !



and rightly so !