Langers
Well-Known Member
The V8 originally fitted to 90/110 vehicles, the 3.5, either had 113bhp up to 1986, and 135bhp in the later ones, compared to a Tdi at about 107bhp, there's not a lot of difference.
Unless they've been rebuilt, most of these old V8s are pretty tired now, and seem to lose their performance worse than Tdis do with age and milage, there wouldn't be much in it in a drag race, especially if the Tdi had had the injection pump tweaked (at zero cost).
The only reason I would be tempted towards a V8 would simply just be the fact that it's a V8 - the sound and feel - smiles per gallon as WLM puts it. Saying that, a Tdi can be made to sound pretty awesome with some fettling to the exhaust etc.
I do miss my 3.9 from time to time, and if my Landy was purely a toy then I would probably go back to a V8, but as it stands the Tdi does all I want and more - and costs me less to run than my brother's ****ty euro hatch.
