JPB wrote:
the first purely clean sheet design to be launched since 26/08/59 which must count for something.
Not so, the Rover 2000, launched in 1963, was a clean sheet design.
As was the Jowett Javelin launched in 1950
JPB wrote:
the first purely clean sheet design to be launched since 26/08/59 which must count for something.
Not so, the Rover 2000, launched in 1963, was a clean sheet design.
Enthusiasts of the big Citroens would take issue with that sentiment as the ID shares the structural concept of the base unit and the suspension, though lacking those ever so Dutch bell cranks of the P6, has similarities albeit without the coil springs (or the transverse leaf of the [also French] car that seems to have taken on Marmite-like status). The Rover is also relatively conventional (and all the better for it IMHO) in that its engine lives at the pointy end and drives the rear wheels. I would point out that the De Dion with the sliding joint was also a borrowed idea, but yon tiny French motor has one of those too, so best I don't.Rover 2000, launched in 1963, was a clean sheet design.
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