Jemma Hawtry Today has been busy. I was driving through town and the car, a Renault Safrane, started to shimmy violently at any speed over 25mph. At first I thought that a wheel had come loose – since I had had a tyre replaced recently… I got out (in the busiest part of town naturally) [...]

BL Belgium press kit: Celebration of the 500,000th car assembled in Seneffe, 10 May 1977 // Translation by Dimitri Urbain, original material supplied by André Vermeersch The Seneffe plant is the main British Leyland investment outside the UK. On top of being an assembly plant, Seneffe is now BL’s unique distribution centre for its largest [...]

HonestJohn.co.uk has cemented its ambitions for growth by announcing that it has acquired AROnline. As a partner site to HonestJohn.co.uk, AROnline is a perfect match, as it’s focused on the classic, used and contemporary British automotive scene, while HonestJohn.co.uk will serve the needs of today’s car buyers. It’s also editorially driven by the concept of [...]

Mike Humble fondly recalls the halcyon days of the UK bus and coaching scene from the 1970s, and pays tribute to the Leyland Leopard. For me, its all about the sound – you never forget the noises of your childhood, the school bell ringing to signal 3.30, the now almost extinct two tone air horns [...]

Another jovial look at some automotive blunders, which for whatever reason, were rubbish.We take a peek behind the Iron Curtain to see what awful cars they could produce when they put their minds to it. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury… The Lada Samara. Just because a car is dreadful, it doesn’t have to mean [...]

Many people are unaware that some British Leyland products ran on the rails as well as the roads. AROnline looks at the Advanced Passenger Train (APT-E), which was BL’s first engineering partnership with British Rail. Story: Mike Humble I make no apologies for the fact that I love trains, and if it hadn’t been for [...]