I buried a 2 wheel drive company pickup to it’s rear axle in sand a year ago (I was too used to my go anywhere 4x4). My first thought when I realize it wasn’t going to get out with the truck’s own power was power is not always the solution.

well I thank your entire family best car maker and best engine to have in the land rover line

But that would make it 2 years too late

😂

But Land Rover still exists so not the entire company.

@@jackstanding9774 it's owned by TATA now

@@ghivifahmi4252 a fate worse than death

GM at the time only really cared about the 350 and 454 :P

That’s not fair. General Motors’ cars run bad longer than most cars run at all.

You do realize GM was the largest automaker in the world for over 75 years and at one point held just shy of 50% of the market, right?

@@dragonbutt "At the time" there was no GM 350 or 454.

@@wesgregg6451 The 350 smallblock has been around since the late 60s, and the 454 came out in 70 for the camaro IIRC

It's come back to Longbrigde 😅

@@justas525 I've opened me door... and the doors still there!

"I only lost two trim pieces...one of them was quite large, I'll admit."

“It has a stereo radio cassette that doesn’t work, it has cruise control that... doesn’t work”

​@@hamza361 'I've opened my door.... door's still in there!'

@@Mauritsvdspek It's come back to Longbridge

@@TheCarArchives96 it's on strike

@@hamza361 "An electric sunshine roof that... doesn't work, eeeh, BUT."

People got 30-35 mpg out of them when driven sensibly in a light car.

i had 3 SD1's in the late 80's, 2 of them where 2.6, one of the 2.6 engines lost a timing belt and smashed up the valves, i bought a donor V8 for £40. to put in the 2.6, 1 wire had to be added to the loom for the electronic ignition and the back of the rev counter you could change it from 6 cylinder to V8 and the swap was complete, damn i miss that car, i sold it to a friend who smashed it up 0.0

​@@chrishenniker5944 I do wonder about getting rid of the dual side draught carbs and dropping on the Buick 4bbl intake with a good, well tuned Quadrajet 4bbl American carburetor. Once figured out, the Rochester Quadrajet is a honey of a carburetor, being easy to tune and easy to set up.

Crazy GM basically just developed it and then threw it away.

@@leeward6762 Aluminum casting technology was still in its infancy and Buick was throwing away more than half of the castings. That's why they dropped it. Rover worked though those problems before introducing their version.

the SD1 is a legendary car in my book and many others

What made it more legendary is that, it was used in the Liver Run.

@@emmanuelseen594 hell yeah it was most memorable SD1 moment

Great indeed. I don't recall seeing anyone who dislikes them

The doors may have a slight chance to fall just saying

V6 Commodore?

Two great engines, they hacked off two cylinders and gave us the ubiquitous 3.8L!

Both British greats.

@@lordflashheart3706 The buick v6 is such a fantastic engine. Probably the best of the american v6's.

@@isaakwelch3451 I had a -65 Buick Special with 225 V6 once, it was a great engine. Never had any problems, enough power and surprisingly economic. And hats offt, the same basic engine construction was in production till -08!

Actually what is even more intriguing, GM once sold the rights of the V6 to AMC which produced them few years to Jeeps, but due to the oil crisis, GM bought the rights back and gave new life to their V6 in their own cars.

Cough LS7

GM suck anyway because jeremy already mention that american cars that were manufacturer by GM is made out of cheap material

@@rayton-fissoremagnum3060 laughs in LS engines

Cough EVERY FKN GM V8 EXCLUDING THE VORTEC

LS's are op

I love Rovers especially. I have a 71’ P5B myself

Was just thinking that. Top gear have some amazing pieces throughout the years.

From the highway chase from Matrix reloaded

100000 miles is a pretty low bar these days, got a lot more than that out of my RV8's

Up thete with the Busso V6 from Alfa Romeo.

lol

Yeah. They should be filling it with water and doing a power lap with it or something.

Hammond is a fraud as a 911 luvva

Santiago Rocha. You did not skip your meds. The SD1 was an exceptional car. I had a 3.5 V8 it had 90.000 when I bought it. I added another 200,000 to that score. It was served regularly and well maintained. That is the secret. I also had two Volvos a 740 and a 960. Both went over 700,000 miles. I parted with the 960 when the cost of petrol went through the roof.

Oh Jesus Christ How’s the TVR doing, absolutely hell isn’t it? No parts for a company that doesn’t exist anymore..

@@tony_5156 they made about 9k chimaeras and Griffiths and about 80% are still in existence. If need be, you can replace an entire chassis and running gear with new parts. There are companies who have the original jigs for making chassis etc. There are loads of parts still being made so not a problem at all to maintain and run

That was absolutely epic that.

Yes, the largest form of it, at the time. Later versions were larger, not least in Range Rovers.

Yeah but not as much torque

@@wildcat6669 Yeah, for the same amount of torque you need a modern 1.5 ;)

Yeah but a modern 1.0L turbo will last nowhere near as long being a highly strung engine as opposed to a natural aspirated 3.5 V8 which is anything but.

@@80sfordman As if anything Rover-made was anywhere near reliable :P

​@@80sfordman How long are we talking here? Are we still assuming the engines are always maintained as directed by the manufacturer?

The face donut or the gut donut? Lol

@@joshacollins84 Dunno what a guy donut is

Nice goatee. I've got the same thing around my ahole

@@jstdrv yeah, that was supposed to be gut.

The best itineration of it was the TVR 4.3 Big-Valve - it used the crank from the buick 300 (same block as rover but in cast iron), chevy rods and ford 260 pistons It was fully balanced, no cats and revved reliably and quickly to 7000rpm The noise it made in a Griffith 430 at full chat is the closest I have ever heard to a nascar sound in a road car.....

Thank you so much

Thank you!! Been looking since I watched 'One', an f1 documentary. Plays when Jim Clark's on...perfect match

the americans are the root of two of the best british engines: the rover V8 and the rolls/bentley V8. Both of which the americans hated and discarded, while the europeans loved em xD

@@TheChill001 well they do say, one man's trash is another man's treasure

@@TheChill001 But you’re missing the point, they’re not british engines, they’re Buick engines

No their saying that the British improved it

@@TheChill001 The Rolls Royce engine had nothing to do with America. It was entirely developed by themselves.

I fully support your decision xD, good luck finding one in good nick for a couple a grant, you won't be disappointed

And I have a 3.9 sitting in my shed...

Is it basically a British LS V8?

@@adamismail2883 so some extent... yes. Small block, lightweight, originally a Buick I think.

@@TheChill001 anything less thank 15 is likely to be a bit of a dog. But then that’s what they’re all about. Throw the dog in it, bikes in it, wife in it, and not worry too much about shitting it up!

Typical summer day in England is 72 degrees. When it hits 82 they think its scorching.

Problem was they used aluminum in USA, while the Brits used proper aluminium!

How’s the TVR doing ?

@@tony_5156 Going really well, just been out making noise in it tonight :)

Made by Buick idk some say that it's unreliable.

Being realistic, I'm somewhat glad they sold the design. It worked out great in Europe, but in the USA we would have killed that little engine with the miles and the way we treat our stuff. It would never come close to a small block chevrolet or ford for reliability. We expect 200k miles and Europe expects 80 to 100k.

he's on about the engine, not the car

Well, they built the originals in the US, in small number, couldn't make it reliable, something that Rover eventually did. Not my favourite engine, but good for the time and eminently tunable.

Honda had a fairly large part later on, early 80s to early 00s.

Amazing how badly it's decayed since

So sad, because it would've been one great engine, had GM bothered to spend the R&D, to refine this engine!!

@@turbinexman Imagine an updated Rover V8 in the Fiero, or ZQ8 S10/Colorado, or in place (forced induction or no) of the L67 supercharged 3800.

@@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney Most definitely, especially with modern aftermarket EFI, such as a unit from Edelbrock!!

@@turbinexman Yeah, and injected, it would’ve been a HELL of a Jeep motor. I know a guy with one in a CJ-5, and it’s an animal.

Just bought one of the few sold here. A v8 manual! Very excited.

I have to say, I own a large number of vehicles powered by the rover V8, in Australia of all places and have never had any overheating issues. Mine are all rover products mind you, perhaps they are better sorted in the cooling systems then some.

@@horiucthesmith6233 land rover discovery ii

Some additional GM history. The Buick 3.8 V6 did not originate in that form. It was introduced for the new compact Buick Special/Skylark as a 3.2 liter (196 CID, 115 HP if I remember correctly) for 1962, the 3.5 V8 came in 1961. It was basically a cast iron version of the 3.5 V8, minus two cylinders. As such I believe it still weighed in at somewhat more than the V8, but not unduly heavy for an economy compact. (By early '60s majority of buyers were opting for automatic tranny & the Buick guys saved weight there with a rather ingenious trans that actually was 35 lb. lighter than the regular 3 spd manual. Though only a 2 Spd road testers of the day preferred it to the attempted re-design of Hydramatic to reduce size, weight & cost for the Oldsmobile compacts.) When the "upscale" GM compacts were killed off & replaced by new mid-size lines for 1964 each division had its own new larger V8. The V6 survived, was enlarged to 3.7 liters (225 CID) & was then shared with Olds in F-85/Cutlass. HOWEVER, by the later '60s Jeep (Kaiser Jeep Corp) was looking for a better performing engine that would still readily fit under their hood & GM sold the V6 off to them! Then comes the 1970s. AMC buys Jeep. Does a redesign that allows for their in-line 6 to now fit under the hood of the Jeep and abandons the V6. About the same time & America is having it's 1st "fuel crisis". GM is looking for a more "modern" economy engine for expanded use in a whole range of cars and, can you guess? They buy back their own V6 from AMC! Proved to be a smart move. Probably one of the best GM engines ever and probably went into more cars than any other engine they ever made! Maybe they should have bought the V8 back too... The little engine that could!

Someone buy it please