Standard V8

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V8
Production period:	1937-1938
Class :	Upper class
Body versions :	limousine
Engines:	Otto engine : 2.7 liters (55 kW)
Length:	4318 mm
Width:	1600 mm
Height:
Wheelbase :	2591 mm
Empty weight :	1321 kg

The Standard V8 was the only passenger car with a V8 engine that the Standard Motor Company in Coventry built from 1937 to 1938.

This car was the largest model of the famous "Flying Standards" with the pseudo-streamlined body. Its long-stroke, side-controlled V8 engine had a displacement of 2686 cm³ (bore × stroke = 63.5 mm × 106 mm) and developed 75 bhp (55 kW) at 4000 min ⁻¹ . A three-speed transmission transmitted the engine power to the rear wheels. The cars reached a top speed of 129 km / h.

Production was discontinued as early as 1938 without a successor. The sports car Raymond Mays 20 hp was built in a few copies in 1938–1939 based on this car .

literature

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