Will Ricardo provide valuable engineering support to help
JaguarLandRover (JLR) integrate its new Hotfire four-cylinder gasoline and
diesel engines into the car maker’s products when then engines appear in
2014/2015?
A clue to the answer perhaps can be found in the latest
issue of Ricardo’s house magazine RQ. The concluding sentence in an
article describing Ricardo’s role in the integration of Land Rover’s I4
gasoline engine into the latest XF and XJ products states: ‘For Ricardo it is
another box ticked and an already successful relationship is moving from
strength to further strength’.
Without doubt, the
joint work by engineers from JLR and Ricardo to integrate the four-cylinder
gasoline engines into cars initially engineered for vee-engines is a
substantial task if the same essential vehicle attributes are to be retained.
That joint work no doubt will be of direct benefit in the future when JLR comes
to integrate the new Hotfire I4 gasoline and diesel engines into a range of
vehicles. Hotfire will be manufactured at site i54 near the M54, Wolverhampton.
