30 January 2006 A rare sight these days By ALEXANDER BOUCKE YESTERDAY, in the late afternoon, my attention was grabbed by a rather noisy engine note. There it was – Keith Adams’ well-known red Lada Riva 1200. These cars were once hugely popular here in Germany, but are now so rare (at least here in [...]

Nanjing presses ahead with MG Rover plans ALYSHA WEBB Automotive News NANJING Automobile is going ahead with plans to build cars based on MG Rover designs despite a continuing battle over who owns the intellectual property rights. In 2007, the Chinese company plans to build 13,000 cars based on the Rover 75/MG ZT lower-premium sedan. [...]

Launched in 1986, the Jaguar XJ40 was the result of an extremely extended gestation period beginning in 1972… A fully-loaded executive car, the first product of the revitalised Jaguar Car company under John Egan. However, in familiar BL tradition, the car sometimes suffered from a lot of faults; some from new and others as the [...]

THERE might be a bright future for the MG marque as we move into a new year, but at the moment, the production lines at Longbridge remain silent, with little hope of a quick reversal. So, that being the case, the ZT V8 remains one of the final cars to be introduced wearing an octagon [...]