Rover V8 engine

The Rover V8 is a compact overhead valve V8 petrol engine with an aluminium cylinder block and cylinder heads, designed and produced by Rover in the United Kingdom from 1967. It is based on the Buick 215 built by General Motors, whose design and tooling Rover bought after General Motors agreed to sell them in January 1965. Rover's own version has a sand-cast block with pressed-in iron cylinder liners and is heavier but stronger than the Buick original, at about 170 kg dry. The first Rover version displaced 3.5 litres (3,528 cc), made 184 PS gross, and was first offered in the 1967 Rover P5B saloon. It went on to power the Rover P6B and the Rover SD1 and was supplied to small makers such as Morgan and TVR and to Triumph for the TR8. The last mass-produced engine was made in May 2004, after just under one million had been built.