Rolls-Royce Videos

Not if you're talking about the 70's and 80's 350 cubic inch Chevy engine. I think it's one of the top ten best engines ever made. I don't know if you can get one today. Wonderful engine and very quiet.

ROLLS ROYCE cars of the past? A small company that often struggled to survive building the best built cars in the world. A small work force of dedicated well trained craftsman producing handbuilt quality and engineering excellence that was second to no one. That was the reason to buy one. Rolls of today? A ugly pretentious looking product owned by a huge corporation that sells it under the old reliable rolls royce name. No class. Just vulgar - like the people who buy it.

Aren't the Chevy V8s a bit noisy and vulgar for an RR?

top class car! 5 star car

When I had this car's engine rebuilt (a very common necessity in the early V8's) I was given the option of replacing the engine with a Chevy, or a Cloud III's engine. I decided to rebuild it and keep the numbers original.

Yes, well, it was a Rolls mechanic telling me in so many words that it sounded official, and it was 20 years ago. Thank-you.

I know that a lot of people have done that but I doubt very much that it was because of a Rolls-Royce directive.

Rolls sent out a directive that if a Rolls engine were to be replaced, the Chevy 350 CU engine of the seventies and eighties would closely match the performance capabilities of the Rolls engine. My father had that engine in his 1975 Caprice. Awesome.

The story I heard about the GM Hydramatic transmission was that Rolls decided it was the best possible transmission and couldn't be improved upon. So it was extensively used.

Xiber1 and freeway911 ought to check their facts.