Jaguar Land Rover's wonderful but aging supercharged V8 is being set out to pasture. Rather than eating the costs and designing a new engine from the ground up, JLR plans to source V8s from BMW.

The modern version of the Plus 8, built between 2012 and 2018 and powered by a BMW V8 engine, is not yet eligible for import. The car’s earlier Rover V8-powered incarnation, however, is a ...

That was because under the Defender V8’s ... V8 engine with 518bhp – a relatively relaxed state of tune that is currently available in the standard non-SVR Range Rover Sport.