11 Facts About Rover V8

Rover V8 engine is a compact V8 internal combustion engine with aluminium cylinder block and cylinder heads, originally designed by General Motors and later re-designed and produced by Rover in the United Kingdom.

Rover V8 began life as the Buick 215, an all-aluminium OHV pushrod engine introduced in 1960 for the 1961 US model year .

In January 1964 Rover gave American operations head J Bruce McWilliams permission to investigate the possible purchase of an American V8 engine for Rover cars.

Rover V8 has long been a relatively common engine for kit car use in Britain, much as the Chevrolet small-block V8 is for American hot rod builders .

The 2004 Land Rover V8 Discovery was the last mass-produced vehicle to use it.

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The last Rover-badged vehicle that used the Rover V8 was the Rover SD1, which was discontinued in 1986 and replaced by the Rover 800, which used a 2.

The Rover V8 remained with Land Rover when it was sold to Ford by BMW.

Rover V8 based on the Buick design was not the first V8 engine produced by Rover.

The turbine engine project at Barnoldswick went to Rolls-Royce and Rover V8 Co took over the V12 Meteor engine production used in a range of world war two tanks and the post war Centurion Tank - .

The Rover V8 Meteorite, known as Rolls-Royce Meteorite, was a V8 petrol engine of 18.

Land Rover V8 took over production of the V8 engine in 1982, moving it from the main BL engine plant at Acock's Green into a new, much lower-capacity production line in the Solihull works, where it was built alongside the other Land Rover V8 engines.