All of the Weber e.f.i. cars had the attractive BBS cross spoke wheels, which have a resemblance to wire wheels although some later examples have the Ronals from the X-pack V8 Vantage. Before the final withdrawal of the V8 in late 1989, 216 examples of the e.f.i. V8 Volante had been produced.
Above are a few images of later V8 Volante fitted with the rather ugly 5 mph impact bumpers, fitted as standard to US market cars. Rather than fitted just for safety, they were used to protect the bodywork from low speed crashes upto 5 mph in order to reduce the cost of body repair covered by insurance companies. Again, it is not uncommon for US cars to be converted to Euro style chrome bumpers although is a very expensive and complex process.
US cars were fitted with a lead free version of the V8 with a lower compression ratio and catalytic convertors. Power output from these engines is down about 50 bhp from those in a European state of tune.
