Lar,
The Jag V8 has nothing to do with the Rover V8, and the companies no longer
have any corporate connection. I meant that the Triumph Stag V8 and the
Rover V8 were being produced simultaneously in the seventies.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lar Kaufman <lark@world.std.com>
To: buick-rover-v8@Autox.Team.Net <buick-rover-v8@Autox.Team.Net>; Dan
Carrington <dc_grafx@microworks.net>; Glen Wilson
<GlenWilson@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: Trumph V8s
>I read somewhere that the Stag V8 used two SAAB/Triumph 4-cyl heads.
>If so, the hot ticket would be to build a Stag V8 with current SAAB
>heads and that nifty turbo EFI technology...
>
>Glen also says "It's one of the truest marks of how really politicized
>and messed up the British auto industry was that the two V8s were in
>production at the same time."...
>
>Isn't the V8 in the new '99 Jaguar a new design, distinct from the
>Rover?
>
> -lar
>
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