Keith Adams To celebrate the tenth anniverary of the launch of the Range Rover L322, the company has unveiled three anniversary editions… one of which is named named after a certain borough in London.  The Westminster, the Autobiography and the Supercharged Autobiography. Given a new Range Rover is due to be launched later this year, [...]

KEITH ADAMS Rimmer Bros sponsored AROnline’s Polish SD1 restoration… Buying parts for your BMC>MG has never been easier through AROnline… HERE at AROnline, we receive a large numbers of emails from people all over the world looking for parts for their cars MGs, Rovers, Landies and all manner of BMC>MG cars. Given that this is [...]

IT started out as an idle thought, and soon became a mad-cap plan… Back in 2005, we bought a £200 Rover SD1 as a project, in order to save it from a fate involving kit-car owners and the scrapyard… in the subsequent months, nothing happened, and the home restoration never happened. However an unusual plan [...]

The Spritual successor to the 1970 Range Rover was revealed at the 2004 Detroit Motorshow… Although not a part of the family now, it is impossible not to include the Range Stormer. Beguilingly handsome and with blue-chip credentials, it is certain that when this car enters production, it will be a huge success for Land [...]

Some Range Rover advertisements for your enjoyment… Please note, all images will open in a new browser window at high-res. Palatial – USA Stop – USA Rhino – USA Off-side – USA

Development on the new Range Rover started in 1995, and it went through several metamorphoses before management were completely happy with the direction it was going in…. Land Rover and BMW produced competing design proposals, and it was the British iteration of the concept that won through at the end of the day. Former Rover [...]

It took Rover 24 years to replace the Range Rover – but when it did, it largely got the recipe right… Taking that fine old car into the 21st century was never going to be easy. Replacing the irreplaceable BY the mid-to-late-1980s, the Range Rover’s transformation into luxury express was well underway; one only had [...]

Is the In Vogue edition the progenitor of all posh Range Rovers? Of course not, but this was the first factory effort – and the beginning of a long road towards the super-expensive Range Rovers of today. Thanks to Andrew Elphick, Declan Berridge and Kev Mills of Land Rover Owner magazine Pretty posh… DESPITE being [...]

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the premium SUV is a fixture and fitting of 21st century life in the UK. However, Rover brought the concept to Europe in 1970 – and led the way from there on in… A new star is born IT IS an overused expression these days – “market niche”… but back [...]

An heroic engine During the late 1950s, the US car industry turned to aluminium as a material to build their engines from. The reasons for this have been well documented, but primarily it was the quest for lighter weight and greater efficiency that led the producers to choose this route. One such manufacturer who embraced [...]

Keith Adams The stylish new Range Rover Evoque looks good in this video and it certainly deserves success in the showrooms.

Clive Goldthorp Range Rover will unveil a new flagship model, the Autobiography Ultimate Edition, at next month’s Geneva Motor Show. The production run will be restricted to 500 units which be sold on a customer order only basis in more than 20 markets globally and be offered with either a 4.4 litre V8 diesel or [...]

Celebrating its 40th birthday this year, the Range Rover has emerged as one of the 20th century’s most important and iconic cars. Designed by Spen King and Gordon Bashford with its styling finalised by David Bache’s team, it’s impossible to criticise on a dynamic, aesthetic or functional level. This vehicle looks set to enjoy a [...]

News that the UK’s last MG police car has been pensioned off* surely merits that oft overused ‘end of an era’ phrase. ‘MG Rover and out’ about sums it up – and it prompted a mixture of memories from ex-police PR officer Roger Blaxall who worked for Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and Lancashire Constabulary from [...]

The Range Rover proved to be a massive and enduring hit for British Leyland. In effect, this was the last product of The Rover Company, and it demonstrates how Spen King and Gordon Bashford could devise and refine a concept to perfection… Produced from 1970 and living on to the mid-1990s, the Range Rover remained [...]

Land Rover are unveiling the company’s third all-new Range Rover in 31 years with a launch at the Design Museum in London. Industry analysts will be keen to see if the vehicle can retain and improve market share in the face of stiff competition from Mercedes, BMW and Lexus. The Range Rover, to be revealed [...]

Land Rover has announced a new version of the flagship Range Rover HSE model. The dHSE is powered by the BMW 2.5 litre six cylinder turbocharged diesel engine and costs £48,705. Standard features of the new model include full leather interior, climate control, four wheel traction control, anti-locking braking system, front and side airbags, eleven [...]

CAR magazine Doug Blain on the design thinking, behind the all-purpose Range Rover. Despite their conservative image, Rover have for long harboured one of the more creative design teams in the British motor industry. This applies equally to engineering and to aesthetics. David Bache, the company’s chief stylist, is also a qualified mechanical engineer and [...]