Rover P3

Rover P3 Berline (1948 )

The Rover P3 is a four-door sedan of the Rover Company and was made ​​1948-1949.

With the P3 engines came with overhead intake valves and exhaust valves standing ( oise - overhead inlet / side exhaust, IOE ), which were in development since the late 1930s. There were two versions: the Rover 60 had a four-cylinder 1,595 cc and the Rover 75 ³ six-cylinder with a 2.103 cm. The transmission and the traditional Rover freewheel were taken over unchanged from the previous model.

We developed a motor vehicle appropriate. Although the body styling of the Rover 12 and Rover 16 corresponded, many body panels were new, but the fenders and hood were taken over unchanged from the Type 12. The car was outside 16 mm wider than the Type 16, through better use of space 60 mm internal width was also obtained. The new car had a shorter wheelbase by 115 mm. Also new - and first used in a Rover - was the independent front suspension, but it stayed with some hydraulic brakes. Instead of a complete chassis of the car had a period ending before the rear axle frame, and the semi- elliptic leaf springs were mounted on the body. This led to a greater suspension travel at the rear axle and thus for a better driving behavior.

There were two body versions, a slight six-seater sedan and a light four-seat " sports sedan ".

The cars were to be regarded with prices ranging from 1080 GBP for the "60" and 1106 GBP for the "75" as expensive. Due to production problems at the beginning of the postwar period and the difficulty in raw material sourcing an excessive production of cars was never planned. There were 1274 copies of the Rover 60 and Rover 75 7837 manufactured until the car was replaced in 1949 by the all-new Rover P4.

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