v8 rover sdi

Ohhh I like that, those wheels suit it

Several for sale in the SD1 club mag.

But make sure it's an SD1 - not an 'sdi' ;-)

mmmmm that is bloody nice.. that's one of the classic designs I reckon someone ought to bring up to date a bit and make a new car out of.. that and the Mk 3 Cortina..

Bigus

Aye, that's one of my pet hates that. I've even been corrected in the past - "SD1? You mean SDi.". FFS!

Peter

No. It's a car of its age. Bring it up to date and it will be like the bloated pastiche which is the 'new' Mini.

How about one of these?

What an *excellent* choice of wheels - they somehow suit it *really*

It's called an SDI in the Jeremy Clarkson book "100 cars that make you go phwoar"

Bigus mused:

bit and make a new car out of.

They did. Rover 800 fastback:

Well, you'd not expect anything better from Clarkson?

It stands for Standard(ised) Drawing (office) one. It was the first all new design to come out of BLMC. But don't think there was an SD2. ;-)

Specialist Division, I think you'll find ;)

At least, that's what austin-rover.co.uk (and my memory, and almost everything I've read previously) tell me...

Richard

a bit and make a new car out of.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It was the equivalent to what Triumph did in the late 70's when they replaced the TR6 with the TR7 and, in JCs words, the whole world stood up and shouted "I want to buy something else".

There was an SD2 mooted as a replacement for the Triumph Dolomite range, but it never made it in to production and the numbering scheme seems to have fallen by the wayside.

Halmyre

a bit and make a new car out of.

And BL went on to sell rather more TR7's than Triumph had sold TR6's...

Certainly the way I've heard it, and google appears to say the same.

a bit and make a new car out of.

Wonder what might have happened if it had been offered with the V8 right away. It was supposed to have started off with the 16V Sprint engine, but presumably that was dropped for emissions/reliability issues?

-- Halmyre

I've got several sources. Some which agree with you.

But my view is that it's hardly a specialist car, so I prefer my version.

If you think about it, it was the coming together of Rover and Triumph to produce a replacement for the Rover P6 and Triumph 2000 ranges. So hardly a specialist product.

I don't disagree; I think that the Specialist Division moniker is actually "a team of specialists" rather than developing products for specialised markets.

I mean, the ADO/L projects weren't developed/designated as projects there, which would have nade sense had it been a centralised design office...

Richard