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MEnthusiast · 28th January 2004, 23:07

Terk,
Thanks for the compliment.

As I was told by another member here, Land Rover builds the engines themselves under a license from BMW. They or BMW did some tinkering to make sure oil is always in the engine because the RR is capable of some pretty severe off road manuvers which could drain the standard 4.4 V8. So its a BMW engine, but its actually made by Land Rover, which is owned by Ford. I was also told that the BMW parts would be for the model cycle- which does make sense. I think they might want to offer a more powerful engine as the model ages though.

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MEnthusiast Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: East Coast, USA Posts: 10,341 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: test drove the Range Rover today Terk, Thanks for the compliment. As I was told by another member here, Land Rover builds the engines themselves under a license from BMW. They or BMW did some tinkering to make sure oil is always in the engine because the RR is capable of some pretty severe off road manuvers which could drain the standard 4.4 V8. So its a BMW engine, but its actually made by Land Rover, which is owned by Ford. I was also told that the BMW parts would be for the model cycle- which does make sense. I think they might want to offer a more powerful engine as the model ages though. __________________ All the best, Jerry 00 Z8 Jet Black/Red Sport / some others