Keith Adams A run to commemorate the life and career of Charles ‘Spen’ King has been announced and will be held on the 21st August, 2010. The event is being organised by the Rover SD1 Club with the assistance of Triumph Stag Owners Club, the Range Rover Register, the Rover P6 Club and the Triumph Dolomite [...]

Chas Hallett, Editor, Autocar, 8th July, 2010 Land Rover has “tremendous growth potential” Tata Motors’ boss Carl-Peter Forster told the SMMT’s Annual Conference in London last week. Forster said the company needs to fill more market sectors and could possibly start building cars outside of the UK. He added that Tata Motors, Jaguar Land Rover’s [...]

Sales of the new Jaguar XJ, which arrived in dealers at the end of May, have helped Jaguar to a great sales result for the first half of 2010, along with a strong performance for XF and XK. In its first full month on sale, the XJ has taken the market lead outselling the Mercedes [...]

Words: Luke Madden Photographs: Otis Clay, Auto Express, 6th July, 2010 The MG3 is the marque’s future, but what about its present? The MG6 will be the first new model to wear the octagon badge since 1995. Auto Express took the wheel during the Moving Motor Show at Goodwood’s famous hillclimb to see what customers [...]

Tom Scotney, Birmingham Post, 6th July, 2010 Midland carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has become the latest member of a European-wide group manufacturing research and development group. JLR officially joined the European Council for Automotive R&D (EUCAR), which represents the major European automobile manufacturers in their common research activities, on the 1st July, 2010. EUCAR’s members [...]

Automotive News/Bloomberg, 5th July, 2010 Land Rover needs to develop greener versions of all its models to sustain sales, Carl-Peter Forster, CEO of Indian owner Tata Motors Limited, said. The lightweight Range Rover Evoque – a small, two-door SUV unveiled here Thursday – must be followed by upgrades of the brand’s bigger all-terrain autos producing [...]

Nick Gibbs, Auto Express, 2nd July, 2010 The new baby MG has been caught out in the open! First pictures of the car – which is due to be built in Britain alongside the MG6 – have surfaced in China. The snatched images show how close the production MG3 is to the UK-designed MG Zero [...]

Keith Adams WHILE THE beautiful set were lording it up at Goodwood, I was doing something far more down-to-earth. Well, I say down-to-earth but, for me, a committed petrolhead, driving a Leyland National was like a dream come true. In fact, I’m still giddy from the excitement of it all! Thanks to Mike Humble, who [...]

Keith Adams  IT’S FUNNY HOW the passage of time manages to put real context on current events. A few days back, I suggested on my Twitter feed and Facebook page that I’d like to write a piece for AROnline about who were the true heroes and villains of the long and involved history of BMC>MG.  [...]

Ayd Instone      I visited the Goodwood Festival of Speed for the first time ever yesterday. I’d got free tickets from MG too for signing up for updates on their website ages ago. They probably gave them away to anyone who wanted them, but it still felt special.      I wasn’t, though, just a freeloading ticket grabber. I really [...]

The first official picture of the all-new compact Range Rover is released today, following an exclusive preview at Kensington Palace in London for guests attending a 40th Anniversary celebration of Range Rover held in partnership with VOGUE magazine. Named the Range Rover Evoque, this all-new coupé will join the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport line-up in [...]

The Alps and the Mini have become synonymous thanks to the Monte Carlo Rally and the film, The Italian Job. So it only seems fitting that Robert Plews celebrated in style by taking his 1960 Morris Mini Mk1 for a spirited run to the hallowed mountain range… Here’s his story… Words and pictures: Robert Plews [...]