Wanted Rolls Royce/Bentley converted Diesel

[Unclejeff]

Anybody know anyone selling a converted diesel Rolls or Bentley, saw a youtube clip of one recently and quite fancied it?

[mik100]

That seems pretty pointless to me. What are the advantages?

[Batrover]

A thought provoking question. Unfortunately my thoughts would not get past the moderator here. It would be interesting to hear Deristrictors views on this one, though.

[AndrewW-G]

mik100 said:

That seems pretty pointless to me. What are the advantages?

Not a great deal, when you can easily convert the cars to LPG and get the equivalent of almost 20mpg

[ADP68]

Joking aside, why don't more people do lpg if they can get 24mpg equivalent, more than my everyday jag?

[Brooklands R]

ADP68 said:

Joking aside, why don't more people do lpg if they can get 24mpg equivalent, more than my everyday jag?

For me it's the cost, loss of boot space and being banned from using the channel tunnel.

[ADP68]

But as a long term hold domestic "station car" or runaround, perhaps something I can sell to 'er indoors?!

[Simpo Two]

Greetings all; just dropped in as I was pondering what interesting steed to get after the Jaguar. Had a poke about in Classifieds and I must say the Continental GT rather appealed. Looks beautiful, and prices acceptable.

But I don't need or want 550bhp, nor a V12, and certainly not 15mpg. Capital expenditure is one thing, throwing money out of the exhaust is another. So a diesel version would make infinite sense to me.

[MJK 24]

I've seen a Turbo R with a Mercedes 3.0 six TD fitted! Lovely smooth engine but overwhelemed by the extra 750+ kgs it was having to pull around over an E Class. This in turn lead to it returning little more than 25mpg and if people above are claiming the equivalent of 24mpg on gas, it makes it look rather pointless.

[Simpo Two]

Would a larger diesel therefore be more economical as it's not working so hard?

[Noble Anonymous]

Why would you want your car to sound like a taxi?

Defeats the whole experience of such a car surely?

If you are that worried about fuel costs, maybe you are looking at the wrong type of vehicle.

[2woody]

Some on here might know that I worked in the engine design department at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars a few years ago. There was an extensive programme to design and develop a diesel engine for the cars in the seventies and eighties.

[rrusston]

2woody said:

Some on here might know that I worked in the engine design department at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars a few years ago. There was an extensive programme to design and develop a diesel engine for the cars in the seventies and eighties.

RR built a twin stage diesel wankel at one time, I don't think it saw production, is this a different engine?

[2woody]

this is a different engine. Much more conventional, but diesel all the same