Automotive What-If – Bristol Cars underwent expansion

Always is the aluminum Toyota V Hemi, inspired by the Dodge Red Ram Hemi 159 ci to 241 ci, just a few ci off from the original dodge displacement.
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A better British-developed alternative that could replace the by then aging Armstrong-Siddeley V8 would be Bristol co-developing the OTL Rolls-Royce / Bentley N-Series V8 project (originally 4.5-5.0-litre / 5.8-6.0-litre prior to being discontinued) mentioned in both the link below as well as from Bentley's Great Eight by Karl Ludvigsen.

It was around that OTL period from the late-80s early/mid-90s that then Vickers owned Rolls-Royce / Bentley were looking to make to money, while smaller high-revving engines such as the N-Series V8 would be especially more useful for Bristol then Rolls-Royce / Bentley (the BMW V8 / V12 powered models being less well-regarded) with the development costs for the project being atomized by ATL Bristol's involvement with the N-Series project and that is assuming ATL expanded Bristol even needs to co-develop engines when it should be able to develop its own engines without any problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_V8_engine#N_Series_V8
 
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How about Bristol buy the Daimler V8 rights? You'd need to do it before Daimler is sold to Jaguar in 1960, as Lyons won't want to give a leg up to Bristol.
 
How about Bristol buy the Daimler V8 rights? You'd need to do it before Daimler is sold to Jaguar in 1960, as Lyons won't want to give a leg up to Bristol.

Because ATL Bristol would already have both the Type 160 Inline-6 Twin-Cam as well as the Armstrong-Siddeley V8 engines, the latter could be later replaced by co-developing the N-Series V8 with Rolls-Royce / Bentley though TBH Bristol would by that point be more then capable of developing their own engines in-house.

As for the Daimler V8, Jaguar would have been better off appropriating and further developing the Daimler V8 engine (3-litre / 3.5-litre and 5-litre+) for its own use, sitting above the Jaguar XK6 Twin-Cam yet below the Jaguar V12 as well as appealing to markets already well-respective to V8 powered cars prior to all 3 engines being replaced by a related family of 2-litre 4-cylinder / 3-litre 6-cylinder / 4-litre 8-cylinder / 6-litre 12-cylinder engines that in OTL would later become the Jaguar AJ-V8. - http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/facts-and-figures/engines/engines-jaguar-aj-v8/
 
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