Rolls-Royce-Bentley L-series V8 engine

The Rolls-Royce and Bentley L-series is a family of 90 degree V8 engines introduced in 1959 and built at Crewe until 2020, which gave it the longest production run of any automobile engine in history. Rolls-Royce began developing it in 1952 as a new design unrelated to its 1905 V8, and it was developed in-house with an aluminium alloy block and wet liners. It powered the Silver Cloud II, the Silver Shadow and many later Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars, and was stroked from 6.25 to 6.75 litres in 1970. After BMW took the Rolls-Royce name in 1998, Bentley under Volkswagen Group ownership kept developing the engine, adding twin turbochargers in 2007, and its last use was in the Bentley Mulsanne.