Archive for March, 2012
Blog : Where next for Jaguar?
Keith Adams There’s going to be a Jaguar launch at the upcoming New York motor show. Now I’m not a betting man, but I’d be fairly confident in putting a bit of a punt on JLR’s new arrival being the production version of the C-X16 prototype (above). Given the excellent response this car has received [...]
March 31, 2012
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News : Bollinger Evoque at a bar near you…
Keith Adams An unlikely partnership, or a synergy of brands? Whatever way you look at, it, the idea of a Range Rover Evoque Bollinger edition is an appealing one. Crafted by Range Rover in collaboration with Italian customisers Aznom, this unique Evoque features a wine-red paintjob with bronze trim and a matt black roof, with [...]
March 31, 2012
· Keith Adams · 21 Comments
News : Not for Brits, the latest MINI edition
Keith Adams Just so you know, the latest special edition MINI Cooper, the Rauno Aaltonen Edition has broken cover. But the new car, named after the winner of the prestigious 1967 Monte Carlo Rally, is only available in selected European markets. The car comes dressed with a Chili Red paint finish with a white air [...]
March 31, 2012
· Keith Adams · 7 Comments
All the cars I’ve owned : Škoda Estelle 120L
In a driving career spanning 25 years and over 150 cars, Keith Adams highlights some of the highs… and lows. In the first of the series, it’s time to recall a couple of months in 1989 behind the wheel of a Škoda Estelle 120L, a car that did its best to put its owner off [...]
March 31, 2012
· Keith Adams · 32 Comments
News : Fuel panic buying finally eases
Queues for petrol are easing after unions announced there would be no strike over Easter, motoring organisations say. The government earlier changed its advice to drivers saying it was no longer urgent to top up petrol tanks, following two days of panic buying. There have been some reports to the BBC of continuing shortages at [...]
March 31, 2012
· Keith Adams · 27 Comments
Unsung Heroes : Vauxhall Senator B (1987-1993)
Mike Humble ponders once again over another car which once seemed commonplace but now languishes in penny numbers. This time we applaud the executive saloon which defied the ‘class without kudos’ tag… The Vauxhall Senator B. Chip-cutter magic Being a true petrolhead, you get to understand that cars are not all simply thrash, power on understeer [...]
March 31, 2012
· Mike Humble · 51 Comments
Events : British Cars & Lifestyle show report
Used as a season starter by many a European British car enthusiast, the British Cars & Lifestyle in Rosmalen right in the centre of the Netherlands makes a good day out. Within the Dutch Austin-Morris-Riley-Wolseley register we started into a year celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ADO16 range. Words and photography: Alexander Boucke A [...]
March 30, 2012
· Alexander Boucke · 4 Comments
First Drive : Vauxhall VXR8 Maloo
Over the past ten years, the VXR brand has slowly established itself as the bad-boy performance badge for people who are looking for something a little ragged than the usual European opposition. Of course, this reputation for wildness has been ably assisted by the addition of the Monaro in 2004 – a badge-engineered Holden that [...]
March 29, 2012
· Keith Adams · 39 Comments
Blog : My bank doesn’t want me to have a new car
Keith Adams My name is Keith Adams, and my bank doesn’t want me to buy a new car. Last week, I went to look at a new addition to the fleet, and after agreeing a price and handing over a small deposit, I told the seller that I’d transfer the money (or at least the [...]
March 28, 2012
· Keith Adams · 81 Comments
Events : Stuttgart and Essen show reports
A warm March weekend in Germany, and two giant classic car shows went head-to-head. In the northern corner, the Techno-Classica Essen – a UK favourite – and in the south, Retro Classics Stuttgart. And we visited both… Words: Keith Adams, Pictures: Keith Adams, Alexander Boucke A very German affair Most UK readers will be familiar [...]
March 27, 2012
· Keith Adams · 16 Comments
News : Land Rover USA hits the quarter century
The Range Rover was officially introduced to the United States 25 years ago this year in 1987. To celebrate this milestone, Land Rover will host a special celebration in conjunction with the New York Auto Show and will invite consumers to an urban off-road adventure where they will drive 2012 model year vehicles at a [...]
March 26, 2012
· Keith Adams · 22 Comments
Essays : A Tape and a Biro – Radio Cassette Years!
Mike Humble goes all nostalgic once again and pays tribute to that dying breed of automotive audio – The radio cassette player. They say that as you get older time passes by so quickly, and how true that is. Think back to when you were a nipper, those lazy summer school holidays in the summer [...]
March 23, 2012
· Mike Humble · 92 Comments
Unsung heroes : MG Maestro 2.0 EFi
Another view through rose tinted spectacles at some once common automotive sights here in the UK. This time, our very own Austin Rover features here with their own slant on the ‘Hot Hatch’ The MG Maestro EFi, but the car hardly made a flying start as Mike Humble explains. Gone but not forgotten Whatever people say [...]
March 22, 2012
· Mike Humble · 97 Comments
News : JLR and Chery announce proposed JV
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Chery Automobile Company Limited have reached agreement on a proposed joint venture in China. The agreement follows extensive talks between JLR and Chery on establishing an equal partnership company. The scope of the proposed joint venture (JV) would include manufacture of JLR- and JV-branded vehicles; establishment of a research and [...]
March 21, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · 32 Comments
News : MG KX Momentum Racing – on track, on time at Silverstone
Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics MG KX Momentum Racing’s nascent 2012 British Touring Car Championship campaign took two significant steps forward at Silverstone yesterday: a just-completed, Triple Eight Race Engineering-built NGTC MG6 GT hit the track for the first time and MG Motor UK announced that, following the recent news about the two [...]
March 20, 2012
· Clive Goldthorp · 20 Comments
News : MG6 BTCC challenger goes live!
Triple Eight unveiled its brand new NGTC MG6 GT at Silverstone, with one car running in the media photography session. The team’s new Next Generation Touring Car MG6 will be the first non-Vauxhall car that Triple Eight have competed with in the British Touring Car Championship. Jason Plato was at the wheel as the car [...]
March 20, 2012
· Keith Adams · 24 Comments
News : Land Rover Overland meets Ukraine
In a whistle stop week on the Journey of Discovery, a trip to Chernobyl was the haunting highlight of a route intersecting all the intriguing urban hubs of Eastern Europe and Ukraine. It’s more than 25 years since the world’s worst nuclear accident in Chernobyl. The Journey of Discovery explored dilapidated houses in the forests, [...]
March 19, 2012
· Keith Adams · One Comment
Events : Pride of Longbridge 2012
Keith Adams The Pride of Longbridge will be running for the seventh time in 2012, and promises to be bigger and better than ever. This year’s gathering at Cofton Park, opposite the Longbridge factory, takes place on 14 April, and it’s hoped that the number of cars that turn up will beat last year’s total [...]
March 18, 2012
· Keith Adams · 34 Comments
Our cars : SD1 reaches a milestone
Keith Adams Back to the using the SD1 as my daily hack, and despite the driving position, which is increasingly annoying me, I am enjoying using the car in a manner appropriate to what it was designed for. I was interesting to see it roll past 50,000 miles after a particularly tiring press week at [...]
March 18, 2012
· Keith Adams · 14 Comments
Drive story : AROnline goes Stateside
Despite being well into the autumn of his life, Keith Adams had made it until the beginning of 2012 without setting foot in the USA. However, the past couple of weeks saw all that change… and here are his first thoughts of the great place. From one extreme to another The USA and I have [...]
March 18, 2012
· Keith Adams · 21 Comments
