Subject: going metric Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 06:27:26 -0400 From: William Caloccia (caloccia@sw.stratus.com)Well, actually, though the wheel bases may be metric, as it is now part of a German concern in the European Union it would fall under mandates from Brussels, which is standardizing vehicle model numbers.
The model numbers must contain the engine size, in deci-litres, a body style or range identifier (numeric), with specific alphabetic tags, as required.
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16 20 22 23 25 26 35 38 39 40, etc.
representing the engine size.
Then the appropriate suffix must be added
D - diesel e - einspritz (fool injection) T - touring (station wagons only, 5 drs) t - turbo charged L - for luxurious (long wheel bases only)Additionally a model nubmer must be included, so
100 - Series I 200 - Series II, III, or Defineder 300 - Discovery 500 - Range Rover Classic 600 - Range Rover (new)Thus the translations are as follows:
SI 80" 116 SII 88" 222 2.25 petrol SII 109" 222 2.25 petrol pick-up or hard top SII 109" 222T 2.25 petrol station wagon SII 109" 226T 2.6 cyl petrol station wagon Stage one V-8 235 US Disco 5dr 339Te 3.9 petrol, injected Tdi Disco 325Dt tdi 2dr classic 535 3.5 carb 4dr classic 539Le 3.9 injected 4dr new 640Le 4.0 injected etc.Please re-badge your older vehicles appropriately with the company logo and the number by 1 April 1996.
All new badges for older Rovers will be availble from your local BMW dealers, from 20 ECUs per number/character, 150 ECUs for the logo.
Failure to properly identify the vehicle will cause problems at either end of the Channel Tunnel.
Yours,
Committee Consulatative de Affairs Consumer de l'Automobile
EU Parlement
Oct 1995
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