French Supermini?

Yeah...RR V8 wouldn't be my choice if I wanted a V8 in there...old Rover V8s are brilliant...that is not, but I'd have some other V8 that has silly power...just because. :D
 
415bhp LS3 6.2v8 from GM would have been a much better starting point (as found in the current C6 corvette, Vaxhall VXR8 etc..)

Would have been hilarious supercharged with 600bhp and the exhaust note of the bathurst VXR8.


Missed oppertunity tbh.
 
From a decent V8 it isn't, the asthmatic old Rover V8 is a different matter though. It can be made to give reasonable power, but at a cost.

Is that the same old old old old Rover V8 that was in things as far back as the SD1 and stuff? Because if so... wtf?

Surely with all the bother of this conversion they could have put a mildly tuned version of it? The 5ltr version was producing 340hp (or so the factory said ;)) in griffs and chims back in the 90s!
 
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