Rover 12

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Rover 12 (1935)
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Production period:	1909-1915 1934-1940 1945-1948
Class :	Lower middle class
Body versions :	Phaeton , touring cars , sedans , roadsters
Engines:	Petrol engines : 1.5–2.3 liters (8.8–35 kW)
Length:	3556-4369 mm
Width:	1562-1651 mm
Height:
Wheelbase :	2235-2845 mm
Empty weight :
Previous model	Rover 10-12 , Rover 10/25
successor	Rover 8 , Rover 12/14

The Rover 12 was a passenger car that appeared in 1909 as a two-seat torpedo with a 2-cylinder SV engine with a displacement of 1624 cm³ . In 1911 a larger engine was installed, which drew 12 hp (8.8 kW) from 1882 cm³. This model was discontinued the following year. A successor only appeared in 1919 with the Rover 8 , the brand's last 2-cylinder model.

Rover 12 (1939)

Also from 1911 - parallel to the two-cylinder model - there was a Rover 12 with 4 cylinders, a four-seat torpedo with a displacement of 2297 cm³ and 22 bhp (16 kW). It was produced until 1915. As early as 1912 he was given the larger Rover 12/14 with the same engine, which later replaced him.

In 1934 there was again a Rover 12, a four-door sedan that was offered in parallel to the Rover 10 with the same body as the successor to the Rover 10/25.

The classic sedan (without trunk) had a 4-cylinder OHV engine with 1496 cm³ displacement, which developed 48 bhp (35.3 kW). The car was 110 km / h fast. Like all other civil models, the Rover 12 was no longer manufactured from 1940 due to the war.

Only after the start of civil production after the Second World War in 1945 was there a Rover 12 again. The concept corresponded to that of the pre-war car, but the car had a trunk extension, as did the models 10, 14 and 16 . There was also a two-door roadster.

In 1948, with the appearance of the Rover P3, production was finally discontinued without a successor.

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David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 1997. ISBN 1874105936

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