Thread: Can someone explain the model designations?

What if you could buy a new rrc with a 200 kw , 15lt per100 petrol v8 , for $50 k.
I’d be in.

Velar is a sign of things to come for Road Rover.

If i recall correctly, the Road Rover, the prototype, was two wheel drive. It was the start, before the first Range Rover prototype.

I am not sure about the suspension of the Road Rover, but my impression is that the RRC rear suspension is a rejigged version of the Rover 3500 rear suspension (which may not have been a 3500 at that point, maybe a Rover 2500?).

The V8 was bought from Buick for the Range Rover, and then used in other British Leyland vehicles, including eventually the Rover 3500, Stag, TR8, MG8, and others.

I think the most unusual thing about the V8 is not actually it being made of alloy, or a small capacity for a V8, but how large the bore and how short the stroke is. Its more like a racing motor designed for high revs and high power. Its a nice motor, and the short stroke made it smoother and more luxurious, but it hurts low rev power, and thats desirable stuff in a heavier vehicle that goes off road.

More nostalgia ..........

Originally Posted by rammypluge

The V8 was bought from Buick for the Range Rover, and then used in other British Leyland vehicles, including eventually the Rover 3500, Stag, TR8, MG8, and others.

Not the Stag. Triumph made their own 3 litre OHC V8 by welding two Dolomite engines together. A telling example of the things wrong with the British motor industry at that time.

Originally Posted by fitzy

What if you could buy a new rrc with a 200 kw , 15lt per100 petrol v8 , for $50 k.
I’d be in.

I've spent nearly that (well closer to half that) on this one, don't plan on doing it again .
Plus you can keep petrol v8, i will keep my 4bd1t

Originally Posted by rammypluge

If i recall correctly, the Road Rover, the prototype, was two wheel drive. It was the start, before the first Range Rover prototype.

I am not sure about the suspension of the Road Rover, but my impression is that the RRC rear suspension is a rejigged version of the Rover 3500 rear suspension (which may not have been a 3500 at that point, maybe a Rover 2500?).

The "Road Rover" was a name given to several different prototype vehicles built over a number of years by Rover to explore the possibility of producing something to compete with station wagons being built by competitors - Rover had no cars suitable for building station wagon versions, and wanted to have something less agricultural than the Landrover wagons. Ultimately the project was abandoned, and the Rangerover project progressed instead, although this was aimed at an entirely new market - with the market surveys essential today before any new product is launched, it would never have even been considered, as the market did not exist before the product!

The Rover 2000, the original version of the Rover 3500, had a rear suspension that bears no real resemblance to the RRC suspension. It is a modified De Dion system with sideways location by the double U-jointed drive shafts and a dead axle with a sliding joint. plus trailing arms. The differential is mounted on the body. As far as I am aware, the RRC rear suspension was designed from scratch, although it obviously used what was basically the Landrover axle (going back to the 1930s), and the Boge strut was bought in from Germany.

...and by following the market instead of leading, now all Land Rover models are becoming primarily Road Rovers.

Originally Posted by Meccles

Nah I have what’s been in all the pics a real RR and no I don’t want or lust after defers or Evoques or Discos.

and theres TWO very good reasons for that!