Our Cars
Our Cars : Richard Truett’s Triumph Stag – Part 1
My Summer of Stag: Confronting The Fear The freshly painted black 1973 Triumph Stag standing in front of me is taken so far apart that it’s making me nervous. In my 35 years of restoring classic cars, I have never owned one so disassembled. Right now, the Stag is little more than a just a [...]
June 14, 2013
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Keith Adams · 
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Blog : The motor pool update
Mike Humble MGB GT I have a good friend of mine who works in the field sales environment who regularly tells me to be wary of any company which uses the words Solutions or Specialist in its name or website. After pondering a while, and in my experience, this often tends to be the case – especially in [...]
April 8, 2013
· Mike Humble · 24 Comments
Blog : MG6 owner’s final running report
Words and photography: Ant McGowan My MG6 experience came to an end this week when I traded it in against a new SEAT Ibiza FR. After playing as much hard ball as I could with the dealer the reality is after 20 months on the road and 11,500 miles (nine months in my possession), my [...]
March 30, 2013
· Mike Humble · 84 Comments
Our Cars : Mike Humble’s new 800 Coupe
Mike Humble buys himself a prime slice of 1990s two-door coupe prestige. How will he fare with AROnline’s latest project car? So far the signs are looking good… A Rover returns Yeah, yeah, I can almost hear what you are saying to the monitor: ‘well, that didn’t take long before you got another Rover’. And you may [...]
March 29, 2013
· Mike Humble · 66 Comments
Our Cars : Out with the old… in with the older
Mike Humble As a rule, I don’t do jealousy with cars. Yeah sure I feel mildly envious with certain steeds some people have bought purely because I like them too – but jealousy? not me. But as the opening gambit states. I did say ‘not as a rule’ and my favourite cars are as eclectic as you [...]
March 12, 2013
· Mike Humble · 34 Comments
Our cars : Renault 18 – 500 miles on
Keith Adams A few weeks back, and after much prevarication, I bought myself a lime green Renault 18TS. My rationale for buying such a car was simple – I wanted a vaguely classic shaped car from the late 1970s that I could press into daily use – and practice what I preach about old car [...]
February 23, 2013
· Keith Adams · 33 Comments
Our cars : Rover 216GSi’s second Life
Today, our old Rover 216GSi starts into a new lease of life – hopefully a successful one… Words and photography: Alexander Boucke Three years and almost two months ago, the useful life seemed over for our beautiful 1991 Rover 216, not without reason – although reliable, the Honda engine used rather inconvenient amounts of oil, [...]
February 16, 2013
· Alexander Boucke · 22 Comments
Our cars : Renault 18 joins the fleet
Keith Adams One of the perks of writing about cars for a living is that I do get access to all manner of new ones to test and review. But despite the new metal that comes and goes in my life, I still enjoy owning and maintaining my own cars – and that’s why, when [...]
February 10, 2013
· Keith Adams · 60 Comments
Our cars : Nothing to see here…
Business as usual Bought: July 2012 Mileage: 10,152 miles Actual economy: 36.9mpg After the maladies associated with my MG6 ownership experience, I’m delighted to report that the car hasn’t missed a beat since getting some personal attention for MG Motor UK back in the autumn. I’m at now over 10,000 miles clocked up by a [...]
February 10, 2013
· Keith Adams · 29 Comments
Our Cars : Mike’s Xantia – Très bon or Les Misérables?
Mike Humble: Well, it’s been a few weeks since the Rover 75 vanished into the darkness on that snowy Tuesday evening towards the Anglian parish of Colchester. I was half-expecting some withdrawal symptoms from losing the warm cosy deep-pile seats and the ember glow of the dials when driving at night. Yes, I miss the [...]
February 7, 2013
· Mike Humble · 22 Comments
Our Cars : Mike’s Rover 75 relocates
Mike Humble Well, that’s it folks, after just over one year of enjoyable ownership, the project Rover 75 has moved on to pastures new and from leafy Sussex to deepest Essex. The proud new owners – Richard and Jill Fernandez – are sure to enjoy the timeless good looks, quality body engineering and soothing ride of MG Rover’s swan [...]
January 24, 2013
· Mike Humble · 3 Comments
Our Cars : Project 75 – it’s time to move on
Mike Humble Well, after over one year of thoroughly enjoyable ownership, the 75 is to be moved on to – hopefully – someone who will continue to pour in the love and affection these truly great cars deserve. For no other reason than a change, I am after something slightly retro and interesting to run as [...]
January 14, 2013
· Mike Humble · 21 Comments
Our Cars : Steven Ward’s Chrysler Neon
Can you believe that we now have two Chryslers on the fleet – first, Richard Kilpatrick gets behind the wheel of a 21st century Rover P5 in the form of a 300C. And now this… Steven Ward buys an automotive joke for the right reasons and loves it Bright Lights To those who are about [...]
January 13, 2013
· Keith Adams · 35 Comments
Blog : 2012 – Goodbye to all that!
Mike Humble Well, as ‘er indoors braves the gale force winds and driving rain on a step ladder removing those outside illuminated decorations from the front bay window – bless her – I thought I would take time out from the XBox and formally wish all readers old and new from all of us at [...]
December 31, 2012
· Mike Humble · 11 Comments
Our Cars : Keith’s Astra – bigger is better
Size really does matter Current mileage 12,905 Claimed economy 62.8mpg Actual economy 47.7mpg Regular readers will recall me giving my Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer a bit of a kicking for its less-than-impressive fuel returns in my previous report. It’s not as if fuel consumption in the high-forties is actually that bad for a near-4.7m long [...]
December 14, 2012
· Keith Adams · 44 Comments
Our Cars : Xantia refreshed
‘Stat’s the way to do a winter service Mike Humble Bangernomics – the thinking person’s mode of transport. Chewing and messing on outside your house till late at night or when your better half unplugs the lead lamp from the mains – it’s what petrol headed life is all about. Fitting Marina gearboxes in the [...]
December 11, 2012
· Mike Humble · 9 Comments
Our Cars : Richard Kilpatrick’s Chrysler 300C
Since 2005, Chrysler’s big RWD 300 sedan has been synonymous with hip-hop culture, Dub wheels and the last gasps of the true American auto industry. The reality is that it’s as American as Apple Strudel, bar the reassuringly simple Hemi V8s, and is more likely to be found rolling around the yards of middle-class suburbia [...]
December 9, 2012
· Richard Kilpatrick · 61 Comments
Our Cars : Mike’s Rover 75 loses its spark
Once, twice, three times a breakdown I have lost count the numbers of times that many people (including myself) bang on about servicing your car regularly and correctly in order to get the very best compromise of economy and reliability. It is, of course, completely true that if you never lift the bonnet, your car [...]
December 5, 2012
· Mike Humble · 13 Comments
Our Cars : Thirsty Astra
I like the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer. It’s an honest car, that’s well-made, well-designed and which performs well on the UK’s motorway network. And over the months, I’ve really grown to appreciate some of those clever little touches that make life so much easier. But I really wish it was more economical. In average driving, [...]
December 4, 2012
· Keith Adams · 59 Comments
Our Cars : The Astra Sports Tourer goes home
Current mileage 12,101 Claimed economy 62.8mpg Actual economy 48.1mpg One of the joys of living in a multi-vehicle household is that there’s always work to do on one of the cars. And because I have a taste for fast hatchbacks from the 1970s and ’80s in particular – and the rarer the better – I’m [...]
November 27, 2012
· Keith Adams · 23 Comments
