Rover Meteor

The Rover Meteor was a short lived medium sized car built by the Rover Company at Meteor Works in Coventry, offered with a 2.5 litre engine from February 1930 and a 2 litre version from July 1932. It was a more luxurious, better equipped and considerably more expensive version of the Rover Light Twenty, which used the same engine and essentially the same chassis, and the 2 litre used the 2023 cc six cylinder overhead valve engine of the Light Six, rated at 16 horsepower for tax. Bodies ranged from a two door sportsman's Weymann saloon with a folding roof to coachbuilt saloons and a seven seat limousine, with later sound proofing and a combined oil level and petrol gauge. A Speed Meteor Twenty had a higher compression ratio and a downdraught carburettor. The name was dropped during 1934, the cars continuing as the Rover Sixteen and Speed Twenty until the P2 replaced them in 1936.