KEITH ADAMS It’s always good reading James Ruppert’s stuff, so when he flagged up that the new Bangernomics Bible was out, I had to grab myself a copy. James said to me that he doesn’t think that I need this book, but I really do beg to differ. Bought in the dark? Check Bought in [...]

Keith Adams  The Rover Metro 1.4LD continues to chug along through what has been a challenging winter with only one failure so far – a failed glow plug. Bangernomics dictates that I really shouldn’t spend the money fixing it, but I probably will, as it’s a pain in the neck to start in the morning [...]

KEITH ADAMS In the market for a Rover 2600, and have a spare £12,000 burning in your pocket? Then how about this ‘new’ and unregistered Series 2, which has just hit the market in Switzerland. It has a mere 566km on the clock, and although it’s hardly new having been built in 1984, it remains [...]

Paul McVeigh, Automotive News Europe, 18th February, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover said it has appointed former BMW Group and Ford Motor executive Ralf Speth as CEO. Speth, 54, has 22 years experience in the auto industry, mostly with BMW. His last job with the German premium carmaker was as Vice President of Land Rover when BMW owned the [...]

Richard Aucock ALFA ROMEO will show the sexy Ford Focus-rivalling Giulietta in public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in March. It’s a make-or-break car. Lordy, how many times have we heard that before? Thing is, how many times has it been proven right..? Fiat Group boss Sergio Marchionne has already gone [...]

Update: 14 February 2010 The Rover Tomcat Turbo’s been going through something of a strip down over the past couple of months. We’d already become resigned to doing a little bit of bodywork, but once it became clear that the job was going to involve a little bit more than replacing a few panels and [...]

Keith Adams There has certainly been plenty of progress on the Rover SD1 project since the last update. You might remember that I’d trailered the car down to MOTEST in Farnham to get a few little jobs for the test done before putting it in for its first MoT since 2004. Well, the boys have [...]

Like all Minis, the Lamm Cabrio has something of a cult following. Launched as a Rover product in the early 1991, the Lamm had already been in production for three to meet a demand for open-topped Mini motoring, before it was backed by the factory. Rover was so impressed, it built its own version the [...]