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Old 14 Jun 2011, 13:02 (Ref:2898817)   #89
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Originally Posted by KA View Post
Though weren't Rover researching at the feasibility of gas turbines for road car use, based on their work with Whittle's early jet engines for the RAF late in WW2? That suggests more road car relevance than the Delta Wing appears to have at first sight.

Rover built several gas turbine cars apart from the BRM Le Mans car- and these were either based on Rover production chassis, or were very much 'road car' in concept. IIRC, the last, 'T4' was basically one of the prototypes for the P6 Rover 2000/3500
http://gallery.brit-cars.com/data//6..._0703_1139.jpg

I'm fairly open-minded on this so far- I can't help finding the whole concept faintly barking, but as DownF0rce said, it's not the first time someone's pitched up at Le Mans race with something totally out of left-field...

http://www.enciclopediadellautomobil...siluro-640.JPG
I'm a little wary of some of the info on Wikipedia but this is interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_C...d_gas_turbines
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