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They are still relatively low power outputs, would love a 16v one in a ZR but you would never get spares in this country.
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Brian, We've sen this written on the forum many times. Personally, I don't believe it for second. BMW are no stranger to introducing new technologies on their own cars/engines and do so very successfully. I think this is most likely a story developed by someone over a pint. At the time, Rover would have felt honoured that BMW allowed it to install its latest diesel engine technology in a car with a Rover badge rather than BMW. |
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Of course they were - they were part of BMW Group. The choice at Rover would have been to adapt an advanced BMW diesel engine or not have a diesel engine at all. Does anyone really believe that it could have been anything else? Powertrain were no doubt capable of coming up with an equally advanced engine themselves. But they had two problems - lack of non-BMW money and the length of time it would take to develop and refine an equally advanced diesel engine. At the end of the day, whoever funds a project dictates the direction. On a similar thought, it will be interesting to see what JLR do about a future V8 given the production agreement with Ford for the current engine comes to an end next year. I suspect JLR will not have the funds to develop and put into production a new in-house V8 from scratch. Last edited by MSS; 13th January 2019 at 17:27.. |
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That, and their less reliable Garrett variable vane turbos. I'll stick with our bullet proof little Mitsubishi TD04 turbo, the M47R is without doubt the cream of the crop as far as I'm concerned.
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The Ingenium engine are quite advanced, as they marry mobilidium? Into engine castings. This should make the engines more economical as mobilidium is a know lubricant. When I was assembling the Daimler V8 engine I was rebuilding, I used a small amount of mobilidium disulphide as an assembly lubricant on all moving parts. While doing so, I noticed that a small tin lid that had some ordinary engine oil in, as I passed over the top of it, a drop of mobilidium dropped onto the oil, and bounced off it. Slippery or what?
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