On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:12:59 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

Indeed, they limped on with carburettors long after
everyone had gone to EFI - not surprising since they owned SU
carburettors.

Nothing wrong with carburettors (as Rover developed them) in terms of
performance, just the problems of extra cost, complexity and (mainly)
poor performance in later life. EFI is _very_ cheap to make these days
- hardly any expensive machining and we all know what Moore's law did to
anything needing the electronic smarts of the average GameBoy.