Richard Moss said:
WarrenL said:
A diesel engine would massively alter the car's character. It would be much less of a P6 after that
You don't think that if Rover were building the P6 today that there might be a diesel version, then? Or that if decent diesels had been available in the early 1970s that the P6 would have had one?
Probably. But it would also have airbags and plastic bumpers, among other things. You can follow that logic to any number of conclusions, really. The point is, anybody can do what they like to their P6, but my personal preference is not to do anything that detracts from its essential Rover P6-ness. For me, that V8 is the entire point of the P6 (hence I don't consider 2000s to be real Rover P6s), and a diesel engine is total anathema.