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[warren t claim]

There are a few shite related questions that have been bugging me for a while and I thought I'd start a thread to see if anyone can give me any answers.

 

If anyone else has any questions they would like to ask then feel free to add and hopefully the communal knowledge of all present will be able to help.

 

Anyway here goes...

 

Can you still buy a petrol engined Land Rover Defender?

 

Is the number of Land Rover Defenders rolling out of the factory greater than the number of Defenders and Series models being scrapped? I.e is the LR population increasing or decreasing?

 

What engine has been used in the most different types of car? I think it might be the Rover V8 but I'm happy to be corrected.

[barrett]

Off the top of my head, I think the A-series is the most used engine, it went from '51 all the way up to the 80s and was in hundreds of different cars.

[Timewaster]

What engine has been used in the most different types of car? I think it might be the Rover V8 but I'm happy to be corrected.

I would have said A series, but also willing to be corrected.

[RedSparrow]

Hmm, got to be the A series or the Ford Kent and it's variations.

[barrett]

Tell you what, the B-series was in a fair few old motors too. Think it might be a close call. Are we counting all the different flavours of BMC 1100/1300s and A60s?

[warren t claim]

Tell you what, the B-series was in a fair few old motors too. Think it might be a close call. Are we counting all the different flavours of BMC 1100/1300s and A60s?

If it's a different model it counts. A55, A60....

[M'coli]

I'd say it would be an American V8 of some description, but I wouldn't know which one.

[barrett]

okay, from wikipedia, so believe it at your own risk

 

A-series

A30

Minor

A35

A40

Frogeye sprite

Sprite mk2

Midget

Morris Mini

Austin Mini

Elf

Hornet

Moke

1100

1300

Allegro

Austin America

Marina

- total 17

and if you include the A+

Ital

Metro

Maestro

Montego

 

- total 21

[seth]

Small block Chevy is probably the most widely produced engine. Barely changed from '55 to the '90s I think.

 

Sure there are differences but then there's not a huge amount interchangeable between FWD and RWD A series either.

[barrett]

B-series

 

Morris Cowley

A40 cambridge

A50

A55

Metropolitan

A60 Farinas (5? flavours)

Wolsley 15/50

Wolsley 1500

Morris JB van

Austin version of above

Riley 1.5

Morris J2

Rochdale Olympic

Elva courier

TVR Grantura

Morris Major

Austin Lancer

Tempo Matador (Never knew that, ya learn something every day)

Hindustan

International Harvester truck (never knew that either!)

Sherpa

5 Hanomag and 2 M-B vans (which i think are essentially the same thing)

Sherpa coupe

Landcrabs

Princess

Marina

 

So that's over 30.... Can that be beaten?

[RedSparrow]

Kent, if you include all variants (wiki again!):

 

Pre-Crossflow

 

* Ford Anglia

* Ford Cortina

* Ford Classic

* Ford Corsair

* 107E Ford Prefect

* Otosan Anadol 1.2L - 1.3L (1966–1984)

 

Lotus

 

* 1962-1974 Lotus Elan

* 1963-1964 Lotus Cortina

* 1964-1966 Cortina-Lotus

* 1967-1970 Cortina Twin Cam

* 1968-1970 Ford Escort Twin Cam

* 1968–present Formula Ford motor racing

* 1972-1975 Lotus Europa Type 74

* 1973-1974 Caterham Super Seven

 

There are loads more and I am too drunk to type so here is the link:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_kent_engine

 

I make that over 20 cars...

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Peugeot's XUD has featured in a hell of a lot of vehicles

 

Off the top of my head (some badge engineered vans for completion) -

 

Citroens Xantia

Synergie

Visa

C15

Berlingo

Relay

Dispatch

BX

XM

Peugeots 205

305

309

405

406

605

806

Partner

Expert

Boxer

FSO Caro

Rover 218D

LDV 200/Pilot

Fiat Ullysse and Scudo

Talbot Horizon

[wuvvum]

okay, from wikipedia, so believe it at your own risk

 

A-series

A30

Minor

A35

A40

Frogeye sprite

Sprite mk2

Midget

Morris Mini

Austin Mini

Elf

Hornet

Moke

1100

1300

Allegro

Austin America

Marina

- total 17

and if you include the A+

Ital

Metro

Maestro

Montego

 

- total 21

This list leaves out various Innocentis, and other foreign stuff like the Austin Apache.

[trigger]

 

Can someone enlighten me what the blue Postman Pat van is please?.

[wuvvum]

Can't remember. I love the Solyto though - they have incongruously boy-racerish wheels IIRC.

[barrett]

It's a William! As seen in one of VWP's spotted threads (en masse)

[trigger]

Ah, I knew i had seen something about them on here before but that photo from a old thread by spottedlaurel was all i could find, Cheers!

[barrett]

IIRC Crayford tried to import them at some point, but the project died before it got off the ground

[Pete-M]

Can you still buy a petrol engined Land Rover Defender?

Used? obviously. New? No.

 

Is the number of Land Rover Defenders rolling out of the factory greater than the number of Defenders and Series models being scrapped? I.e is the LR population increasing or decreasing?

The Land Rover population is rising rapidly. The Defender population less so.

 

What engine has been used in the most different types of car? I think it might be the Rover V8 but I'm happy to be corrected.

I'd have thought it'd be the Chevy small block.

[fiatdaft]

agreed,the have rattled out over 90 million, classic cars had it in the classic engine series a couple of years ago,worlds most numerous engine.

[CreepingJesus]

Gotta be the SBC, altho' the SB Ford can't be far off, considering how many low-volume sports cars the 289+351W ended up in.

I have an odd question, and I don't think it's worthy of a thread: what does a red French number plate with white digits and border signify? I'd never seen one, until I saw a Citroen C8 round Edinburgh way over a few weeks with such plates.

Oh, and which European country would have a black on white plate, with 7 numbers on it? I saw that plate on a lefty Mini Cooper, but couldn't make out the country code below the EC circle of stars logo on the plate's left margin.

This kind of thing bloody annoys me - it isn't really important, tbh: but it's something I don't know! Can't be doing with that...

[Tayne]

/

[CreepingJesus]

^Not to mention the original Buick incarnation, in road and marine versions.

[Cavcraft]

Were there really Mk3 Transits with 1.8 and 2.0 diesel engines fitted by the factory?

[pogweasel]

How do you define "Mk3 transit"?

It's so bloody confusing, mainly due to Ford-plebs considering a slightly modified grille badge to constitute a separate new model...

 

Wiki page suggests only 2.5 diesel flavour "DI" jobbies on the 86-on transits

[Cavcraft]

Tell me about it. I joined a Transit forum, suggested I had a Mk3, posted pictures then got about 18 million replies saying it was a Mk3.5679.9 as the indicator bulbs are offset .1 degrees dead centre of the crank. Or something shit like that.

 

'86 on is exactly where I see the Mk3 until it went to the completely new model in about 2,000.

[AnthonyG]

IIRC Land Rover Defender production is 20,000 a year or thereabouts, and most sales are in the UK these days. Whether they are still making anything for the military I don't know.

 

So Defender population is probably increasing over all.

 

Scrappage aside, Defenders, 90s/110s etc tend not to get scrapped at the immediate end of their useful lives, they tend to get left in sheds/fields/farmyards for a further 10-20 years before actually biting the dust (or getting restored).

[dieselnutjob]

Peugeot's XUD has featured in a hell of a lot of vehicles

 

Off the top of my head (some badge engineered vans for completion) -

 

Citroens Xantia

Synergie

Visa

C15

Berlingo

Relay

Dispatch

BX

XM

Peugeots 205

305

309

405

406

605

806

Partner

Expert

Boxer

FSO Caro

Rover 218D

LDV 200/Pilot

Fiat Ullysse and Scudo

Talbot Horizon

Tata Loadbeta

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

The TATA's engine is derived from the ancient Indenor. Unbelievably I forgot the Citroen ZX and Xsara, and I believe the Lada Niva was fitted with the XUD for a time.

[r.welfare]

As was the Suzuki Vitara - at least, according the "applications list" on the box of an XUD water pump I bought for my 405.