Looking forward to this. At least I own a couple of R8 this time around

Are they doing club discount codes again?

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418 XUD engines?

All UK plates have denoted place of issue since 1903. The three letters together denote the issuing authority letter code, e.g. my Alfa is N860 CMM : where N states it was sold new in 1996, and CMM belonged to Middlesex. So I have an outer-London car. The number 860 is just due to it being the 860't...

Hello there. Yes, as it's a UK hosted site, assume driver's side is the right-hand side of the dashboard as you sit in the vehicle. It's all about Napoleon you know, 'you lot' inherited his idea that you must ride your horses on the 'wrong' side of the road :) Regarding the 'registration plate', tha...

there are three on Autotrader, one with just
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Yeah but not worth risking 60 or 80 quid or whatever it is and three points! Are you sure? That's the first I've heard of issuing of points. The MOT tester will fail it and therefore legally it is deemed not roadworthy with them fitted - which becomes a sticking point with your insurer in the event...

E_T_V wrote:I'm not 100% familiar with the XUD engine but I don't think the rover version was intercooled

The non-turbo 418 used the 1.9 XUD9. The turbo 418 used the intercooled XUD7

Intercooled engine

see also
http://www.rover200.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=757