Powertrain Ltd

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Powertrain Ltd, as a subsidiary of Phoenix Venture Holdings, was a British company based in Birmingham which designed, manufactured and marketed car engines and transmissions.

1 History
2 Products
3 Customers
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] History

The company was placed into administration on the 8 April 2005.

On 22 July 2005 the joint administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers announced the sale of the assets of Powertrain Ltd (and those of MG Rover Group to Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation^[1].

[edit] Products

Their main products were:

K-Series 4 cylinder petrol engine
KV6 V6 petrol engine
L-series turbo diesel engine
PG1 gearbox

[edit] Customers

In addition to supplying engines and transmissions to its sister company MG Rover, Powertrain Ltd also supplied engines to other vehicle manufacturers including Land Rover, Lotus, and Caterham.