Talk:Riley RM
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"...The RMB was an even larger car .... The RMB was an enlarged RMA..."
[edit]Does anyone know where it was enlarged?
In other words, did they simply add six inches to the front (bonnet/hood...) section to make it look more imposing (and / or possibly because of some never implemented plant to install a six cylinder engine from some other distant corner of Austin or what became the BMC empire at a later date)? Or did they actually lengthen the passenger cabin (which would have involved a lot of cost for relatively little benefit, so feels unlikely from here given what we know of the dismal financial state of the British economy in general and of the auto industry in particular at the time)?
The car has generated a lot of love from enthusiasts over the years. I've a feeling Jim Lloyd drives one. So maybe someone "out there" has looked into this and feels able to add a couple of lines of clarification. And please.
Regards Charles01 (talk) 10:13, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- The local RM expert says (like me) he has seen it written down somewhere, i.e. exactly where they added in the 6 or seven inches to accommodate the bigger motor. A workshop manual might tell us but probably not, far too obvious to be put on record there. Don't hold your breath. In my youth a parent's age car enthusiast was always saying "wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding". In my (re) search I read that the smaller RM "wouldn't pull a sailor of your sister". Bowdlerisms . . . Eddaido (talk) 22:55, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- The body is identical from the windscreen back. The extra 7 inches is all in the bonnet area. ~2026-31333-02 (talk) 22:31, 25 May 2026 (UTC)