TD5 was not only the best diesel engine Land Rover produced, it was also the last. At the time Land Rover and the Rover car company were jointly owned by British Aerospace. So it was commercially logical to combine the expertise of both vehicle builders to produce not just one engine, but a range of engine that would power all Land Rovers and Rover cars.
The plan was approved in 1993 for suite of three engines a four cylinder 2 litre, a five cylinder 2.5 litre and six cylinder 3 litres. Their collective code name was storm.
Development manager with Land Rover throughout the project. The strategy was that they would all have common architecture in that the piston, conrods and cylinders would be the same a synergy where you would only have to develop one of the engines and the other two would be the engines and the other two would be sprung off the back of it
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