Words and photography: Mike Humble The project 75 blots its copy book and gives the owner a mild heart attack. But thankfully, it’s all dealt with in Just A Minute! I reckon the essay header is a fitting one to those who know and love the Rover marque. BBC Radio Four is of course preset number [...]

Words / Pictures: Mike Humble Almost another thousand clicks pass by on the 75′s digital readout. Its now my daily hack which is smooth, comfortable and never fails to impress – until today! Yes, I know some of you out there will be chuckling at the heading of this latest ramble on the Rover 75 [...]

Keith Adams Given the general love for Bangernomics motoring – preferably with a British flavour – around here, it might seem more than a little odd that an R56-generation MINI is joining the fleet. Especially as this one had 17 miles on the clock, and my name was the first on the V5C logbook when [...]

Well the Rover 75 has been residing at Swiss Towers for one month and also has been pretty much in everyday usage. Has it been sweetness and light or otherwise? Mike Humble explains life so far with the project 75 Club SE. As my opening gambit states, the Rover 75 Club SE has been with [...]

Working on the proviso that prevention is better than the cure, Mike Humble spends some quality time with the 75 while also putting right some of the wrongs… she’s looking good! Say what you will about the MG Rover cost cutting plan (Project Drive) which came into effect from 2002, but for a company where [...]

Mike Humble has now been a Rover 75 owner for 72 hours, has the honeymoon period ended or does it still look promising? As I draw the living room curtains each morning before leaving for work, the early morning sunshine glances off the chrome grille and bumper insert of the 75, it’s a nice sight [...]

Words and pictures: Mike Humble After selling on for a small profit, the SAAB has gone to live in deepest Kent – So not being a person to think for too long, a surprise replacement now resides at Swiss Towers. Well, the SAAB has moved on to pastures new and yes, I do kind of [...]

Work commitments had slowed down the pace for Mike Humble and his dead Saab 9-3. Patience, luck and plenty of hot tea seems to have paid off and now it’s time to enjoy! When I took delivery of my Saab 9-3 last month, it didn’t look good to be honest; it was in pieces, a [...]

Richard Kilpatrick The handful of people I know from car-related activities will probably have twigged that new things generally put me off. Heavier, cost-reduced, simplified or over-complex, if I like something in the first place, I don’t want it to be messed with. So it’s probably unsurprising that my first SD1 was something of a [...]

Mike Humble: My Rover 420iL went to a good home with no fuss to nice chap called Mr Foy, he was the second person to view the car after the first viewing turned out to be nothing more than the dreaded Sunday morning tyre kicker. After knocking £25 from the asking price, I`m quids in [...]

It`s not all my fault! I partly blame Keith Adams for my change of mindset, I babysat and carried out some minor work on his Alfa 156 while he visited Southern France recently, and I fell in love with it. Following an enjoyable two weeks burning an offensive amount of petrol driving around West Sussex [...]

Mike Humble bags a Rover 620ti shaped bargain, and loves the experience… …but now he wants another one. Words and pictures: Mike Humble A turbocharged bargain BACK in the days when I had some disposable income, I was flicking through the pages of the local paper motors section when I spotted a friend-of-a-friend’s garage selling [...]

Keith Adams The Rover SD1 that’s featured so prominently in these pages since 2006 is now going up for sale. For those who have not been following the story, here are some highlights. It’s a 3500, five-speed manual model, registered in August 1976, and currently has 50,000 miles on the odometer. It’s MoT’d until April [...]

IT started off as a no strings attached bit of fun looking after Keith Adams Alfa, but it’s  now blossomed into a fully fledged love affair – so is it all over for Mike’s Rover? Parole ed immagini: Mike Humble In the past, I have often been heard be it  in an Indian restaurant or a [...]

Here’s a precious one – produced at the Proto-Build Shop at Canley in 1987, our MG Maestro Turbo is a one of a kind… Does that mean we’ve got trouble in store, or will our hand build AR pocket rocket be a lesson in hot hatch nirvana? Big boy’s toy IT came like a bolt [...]

Given a budget of well under a thousand pounds, what would you buy to deliver a ride to driving happiness; a nice, sensible ten-year-old Rover 214, Renault Clio or Toyota Corolla… or perhaps a fire-breathing, 210bhp Rover Vitesse? QED. I GUESS it was karma really. I’ve been a reader of AUTOCAR magazine since 1978, and [...]

We all know that the TR7 and TR8 had years of development potential ahead of them, and yet, due to the company’s continual retrenchment, the car was put out to pasture far too early in 1981. Richard Truett, AROnline’s man in the USA, feels the same, and to prove the point, has created an EFi [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Keith Adams Enjoyed a nice catch-up with SD1-owning, AROnline reading, Nissan engineering man Chris Wood last night. We caught up at the Earls Barton Classic Car and Bike Meet, after briefly meeting at the AROnline 10th anniversary bash a couple of weeks ago. That time he brought a Nissan Leaf with him – but this [...]