Hi all...

I've just bought a Rover214SLi...

Can Anyone tell me what the 'SLi' actually stands for, I've looked all over the internet and had absolutely no luck at all

Any answers are more than welcome and much appreciated, cheers..

Cuthbert

I think it stands for Single Line Injection and has to do with the fuel injection system.

Thank you very much frogger, you've been most helpful, cheers :)

Does it not mean
Sport.
Luxury Interior.

It could mean that SLi has well over 100 meanings, a few of which pertain to automobiles.

Not to disagree with brother Frogger, but I believe that it is less an acronym than it is an 'appearance package' code, closer to what Paul implies.

A basic Rover 214 S was a three door hatch, the SI was a later edition with nicer details and came in either three door or five door.

The Rover 214 SLI is the fully-evolved model with a maxed-out appearance package known by the importers as the 'Sterling Hatchback finish'. It has five doors (including the hatchback door).

If you've got the Rover 214 standard GSI, it has a 1396 cc engine that produces 95 bhp (brake horse power). The zippier 214 GSi 'Cat' performance model has the same size engine displacement, but makes 103 bhp at the drive wheels.

Good car.
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Spark you must have pulled that off the net the way youve it wrote.
Not so sure Rovers that good of a car,its a British Company bought by China I believe,I do know that when they built them in the UK they were very unreliable.
I drive a British car myself,a Vauxhall,which is really an Opel,but when an Opel
is built in the UK its a Vauxhall,Europe eh haha.

I've got a couple of oddball car-enthusiast friends.
One is big into the Rovers and Alpha Romeos, and the other just loves the old Volkswagon GTI's. They do rallies with them.

Me, I sit and watch, and drink beers.

:drinktoth

Sound advice.
This has been wrecking my brain the last 5 minutes. Ive come to the conclusion that the said Rover is an SL with fuel injection,thus the 'i'.

Theres a stage of the world Rally Championship being held in Ireland this year,looking forward to that.

This has been wrecking my brain the last 5 minutes. Ive come to the conclusion that the said Rover is an SL with fuel injection,thus the 'i'.


Maybe, but I doubt it. I think all the 214 generation Rovers (engineered by Honda) were fuel injected.
But I've been wrong before.

Like I indicated in my initial post, I wasn't sure what it meant, Sparky. There was no site that gave a definition of the term.

Shit I cant find it either, tho I should know.

I've got a couple of oddball car-enthusiast friends.
One is big into the Rovers and Alpha Romeos, and the other just loves the old Volkswagon GTI's. They do rallies with them.

Me, I sit and watch, and drink beers.

:drinktoth
And after you get all likkered up, you fire up that 600 horse baja turbo and embarass your friends, dont you?

Shoot, Frogger and Paul.
I'm going to have to admit you were probably right all along.

I've been reading thru the Haynes Rover 214 & 414Service and Repair Manual, and they explain that "The 214 S model (first introduced in September 1990) has an eightvalve single overhead camshaft version of the
engine which is fed by an SU KIF carburetor. All other 214 and 414 models (SI and SLI) are equipped with a sixteen-valve double overhead camshaft version of the engine which is controlled by a Rover/Motorola Modular Engine Management System (MEMS) with either single-point fuel injection (SPi) or multipoint fuel injection (MPi)."

The "I" most likely stands for fuel injected.

The S and L are clearly nuances of the appearance packages and/or numbers of doors.

:mad: :(

Sparky stop reading all that heavy shit on a sunny afternoon,put the barbie on and have a beer.

Best idea I've heard all day;

I'm headed over to my sister and brother in law's for some beers, grilled chicken, potato salad, and all the fixings.

Whoo hoo!!

:drinktoth

I've got a couple of oddball car-enthusiast friends.
One is big into the Rovers and Alpha Romeos, and the other just loves the old Volkswagon GTI's. They do rallies with them.

Me, I sit and watch, and drink beers.

:drinktoth
My younger brother has a GTI. It's a pretty nice car. He picked it out himself, it was just what he wanted.

Since I really don't give a crap about what I'm driving, I got my grandparents' old Chevy Lumina since they're upgrading to something newer... I drove on the road for the first time today. I was going 40! :D :eek:

Ah C'mon. If its an automatic you dont actually drive it,you simply steer it,the car does the rest,haha.
Good luck with the driving girl.

I'm alright at driving, specially for a newbie. I've seen Asians and old ladies who are worse! :eek: It's parking I can't do. I haven't even attempted to parallel park yet, but pulling into spaces has proven a bit tricky...

Whats parallel parking,parking at the kerb?

Yep... Supposedly the hardest thing they make you do in the driving test.

When I was learning the hardest bit I found was reversing round a corner,gotta go,its quarter past 7,catch ya later.

Shoot, Frogger and Paul.
I'm going to have to admit you were probably right all along.

Apology accepted but next time make it a little more abject, Sparky. You know, grovel a bit more.:lolhit:

When I was learning the hardest bit I found was reversing round a corner,gotta go,its quarter past 7,catch ya later.

LOL...hopefully that was a joke as um, you can't drive backwards on the road. One of the stoopidst moves I see drives make here is pulling too close to the cross road at the light. Then the light changes to red so the fools back up. That can get you a major fine here. I doubt any of the fools get one but they should as it is considered going the wrong way on the road...almost as bad as backing around a corner... :D.

Its my superior driving skills dont ya know.