Archive for July, 2003
Events : Plymouth to Dakar… by Allegro
Plymouth-Dakar has gained a cult following in the few short years it has been taking place. The idea, put simply, is to take a £100 banger and deliver it to Africa. This is Karl Parsons’ account of what it meant for him… THE Plymouth-Dakar Challenge is a kind of wacky races-meets-scrapheap challenge. The object of [...]
July 26, 2003
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Archive : Rover unveils Indian connection
The new City Rover will cost about £6,000 MG Rover is unveiling its new small car at its Longbridge factory in Birmingham. The car will be built in partnership with the Indian company Tata and manufactured at its plant in Pune in India. Rover plans to import about 50,000 of the cars a year and [...]
July 8, 2003
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Car of the month : July 2003
July brings us an example of niche engineering – something that MG Rover would no doubt involve themselves in now, if they had the resources. The example featured this month belongs to David Eastaugh of Norwich, and was saved from the ignomy of becoming an insurance write-off. After much attention was lavished upon it by [...]
July 1, 2003
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