Archive for October, 2002
Archive : Chinese police seek arrest of car tycoon
The Chinese authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Yang Rong, the missing former chairman of Brilliance, the country’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vans. Police from the north eastern province of Liaoning said they were seeking 46-year-old tycoon Yang Rong in connection with alleged economic crimes. The news is causing anxiety in Germany, where BMW [...]
October 23, 2002
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Archive : MG launches new sports car
MG Rover Group has launched a high performance sports car that it hopes will rival the likes of Porsche, Maserati and Jaguar. The MG XPower SV is “an extremely powerful car”, said MG Rover chief executive, Kevin Howe. And not only in terms of horsepower. “The car illustrates how far we are prepared to extend [...]
October 22, 2002
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Picture gallery : Miscelleneous prototypes
BL Zanda The BL Zanda was a motor show prototype produced by Harris Mann and showed to the world in 1969. This car still exists and is on display at the Motor Heritage Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire. Mann caught the attention of BL’s upper management with this car and as a result, went on to [...]
October 2, 2002
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Miscellany : BL Top Trumps
Back in the 1970s and ’80s, these cards were all the rage and the ones that are relevent to this site can be seen below. The rally cars are interesting: the Mini we can see, but who would want to rally a Triumph 2000? ‘That particular car looks like one driven by Brian Culcheth that [...]
October 2, 2002
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Car of the month : October 2002
In the course of this website, I have described the Rover SD1 as the finest car to emerge from the BL stable during the 1970s. I do not apologise for taking this standpoint; given the car’s mix of smart David Bache design and Spen King inspired practical packaging. At the time of its launch in [...]
October 1, 2002
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