THE MG Car Club’s award winning MGLive! celebration returns to Silverstone on June 23/24 with thousands of MGs spanning all eras expected to descend on the home of British motor sport. MGLive! is the weekend where the whole family gets together to celebrate everything that’s great about MG cars and MG people. Enthusiasts from over 15 [...]

The Journey of Discovery reaches its goal From Kyrgyzstan and across the border into China, the Journey of Discovery reached its final destination – the Beijing International Motor Show. Here are some of the highlights from the Journey. Bishkek and Ala-Archa National Park Following a short stop in the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek, the Journey [...]

Keith Adams After 18,500km, and fourteen countries, the team has rolled into Beijing, and aside from a cracked foglight on one car, a cracked screen on another, and two punctured tyres, they made it completely intact, and without incident. Well, when we say without incident, that discounts the fact that pretty much the entire run [...]

Keith Adams I still can’t believe I am lucky enough to be in China. And that I’ve joined such an impressive expedition to cross it. Over the past three days on the road, I’ve yet to become accustomed to this vast and ever-changing country, and I hope that I never do. Because to become accustomed, [...]

…or at least the beginning of it! It’s been a couple of days since leaving the UK, but we’ve finally caught up with the crew from team from the Journey of Discovery by Land Rover. The journey they’ve had from Birmingham to this point in Western China has been incredible – with all manner of [...]

Keith Adams I’ve yet to catch up with the Land Rover Journey of Discovery, and we’re still a flight away from meeting up. After an overnighter to Hong Kong, followed by an internal flight to Xi’an, there’s still some distance to cover before I get my hands on the millionth Discovery off the line. My [...]

Words and Photographs: Mike Humble Once again, here at AROnline, we are proud to say that this year’s Pride of Longbridge event was a complete success and enjoyed by all those who attended. It’s hard to believe that it’s been seven years since full-scale production of MG Rover cars shuddered to a halt in B31 [...]

Land Rover’s celebrating the 1,000,000th Discovery by going overland to Beijing. And we’re joining the team for the Chinese leg of the adventure… Land Rover’s remarkable 50-day adventure from Birmingham to Beijing is about to enter its last phase, and we’re going to join the three car team for the last 1500 miles, as it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Vauxhall is again supporting this year’s annual classic car celebration and will open its Heritage Centre to mark ‘Drive it Day’. The doors will open between 10am and 4pm on Sunday, 22 April, during which time any classic car owners can join us for light refreshments and the opportunity to see one of the largest [...]

Andrew Elphick Land Rover has announced it had constructed the millionth Discovery, 23 years after the launch of the original in 1989. Today it is the choice of those who find a Defender just too agricultural, and a Range Rover just a touch ostentatious. From the neat white lined aisles of Waitrose’s car parks, to [...]

Day 28, Cape Town, South Africa At last! We finally see the silhouette of Table Mountain…and roll down the long drive lined with palm trees to the Table Bay Hotel – the South Atlantic a pebble throw away. We have made it. It’s an emotional moment. Tears roll down the faces of grown men. The [...]

Day 28, Clanwilliam, South Africa Yesterday’s gruelling run through Namibia on 800km of gravel tracks was indeed a tough test for some crews, with tyres being the main problem. With last night spent camping a long way from the nearest broadband connection, we have no picture updates yet, but we may get some tonight. The [...]

Day 26 Windhoek, Namibia Watching the cars at the end of today’s second World Cup Section, Alastair Caldwell did well, although the four-cylinder Porsche sounds a lot noisier, and John Bayliss, driving Paul Carter, seemed to have the measure of it, lifting the broken Volvo over the worst of the ruts. Paula and Diane Unwin’s [...]

Day 24 Victoria Falls It is simply not possible to drive the full length of Africa without being in someone’s rainy-season. But if you try it in line with our time-table, it might just be possible to do it without exercising a windscreen wiper. Last night it truly rained, torrential torrents overflowed the guttering. This [...]

Day 20 Dodoma, Tanzania The 18th day of the London to Cape Town World Cup Rally was the one and only rest day, but of course it was nothing of the sort for most of the crews and even for the organisational support vehicles, which were also unable to go much further without urgent attention. [...]

For the lucky ones who could reach Nairobi under their own steam, the old colonial Safari Park Hotel must have appeared like a particularly well-appointed oasis. Two days of Kenyan roads have reduced a pretty serviceable group of cars to a drawn-out string of battered jalopies – this is African rallying at its toughest. Underlining [...]