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News : Nissan LEAF production now underway in the UK
The facelifted Nissan LEAF, incorporating more than 100 updates, is now rolling off the line at the company’s record-breaking Sunderland Plant, using advanced lithium-ion batteries manufactured in Nissan’s new UK Battery Plant. After four years of preparation at the plant and a previously announced £420m investment by Nissan. Together the Battery Plant and Nissan LEAF [...]
April 4, 2013
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News : Plato takes two BTCC wins at Brands Hatch
Words: Simon Thompson Photographs: BTCC Media Office Triple Eight Race Engineering-run MG KX Momentum Racing kicked off the new Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season with a new look and a new face at Brands Hatch over the Easter weekend – the two NGTC-specification MG6 GTs were sporting a new livery and young [...]
April 3, 2013
· Clive Goldthorp · No Comments
News : JLR posts a record March
Jaguar Land Rover UK has reported its highest sales month ever in March, owing to desirable new product and continued strong demand. Jaguar Land Rover sold 17,773 vehicles in the UK in March, compared to 14,789 in March 2012 – an increase of 20%. Land Rover’s sales success was led by the all-new Range Rover [...]
April 3, 2013
· Keith Adams · 12 Comments
News : MG Motor UK goes for Burton
Clive Goldthorp MG Motor UK Limited’s new Head of Sales and Franchise, Sam Burton (pictured left), started in post today. The company has not, as yet, issued a formal Press Release about the appointment but Mr. Burton, who was Subaru UK Limited’s Sales Director between October, 2008 and May, 2012, has already updated his LinkedIn profile with [...]
April 2, 2013
· Clive Goldthorp · 75 Comments
Events : MINI’s centenary tour (updated 28 March)
MINI celebrated the Cowley centenary in style by touring of all of the European production sites that have built this iconic car over the years. These included Novo Mesto (Slovenia), the Italian city of Milan, the former production plant in Malta, the Portuguese town of Vendas Novas, Pamplona in Spain, Seneffe in Belgium, Amersfoort in [...]
March 28, 2013
· Keith Adams · 46 Comments
News : 2013 Range Rover Sport revealed
David Ross, Honest John Land Rover has unveiled the new Range Rover Sport which is set to go on sale this September with prices expected to start at around £55,000. Land Rover is calling it the ‘fastest, most agile and most responsive’ model it’s ever built yet thanks to weight saving it will be more [...]
March 27, 2013
· Keith Adams · 29 Comments
Blog : Treading safely with an Adrenalin rush
Mike Humble If there is one thing in the automotive trade that struggles to capture any emotion or excitement at the time of purchase, it surely must be tyres. They tend to be viewed as an item that, along with engine oil, is purely an evil necessity bought purely on a cost factor unless high performance is key. [...]
March 27, 2013
· Mike Humble · 32 Comments
Advertorial : What to do in a collision?
It’s difficult to think clearly and remember what you need to do when you’ve just been involved in a car accident. At the time most people will be upset and may be worried about their passengers or the driver of the other car having been hurt. So a useful tip is to print off a [...]
March 21, 2013
· Keith Adams · 20 Comments
News : Classic car road tax exemption extended to 1974
Keith Adams There’s good news for classic car owners in the 2013 budget. From 2014, the exemption from VED (road tax) will be extended to 1974. And that means all cars manufactured in 1973 – previously liable for the annual tax – will now qualify for the exemption. Also, SORNs will no longer be annual, [...]
March 20, 2013
· Keith Adams · 27 Comments
Events : AML centenary at Silverstone Classic
The 2013 Silverstone Classic will host an amazing line-up of unique car displays, parades and events to celebrate the centenary of Aston Martin. The marque will be the event’s official ‘Featured Celebration Marque for 2013’, and highlights during the weekend will include a 100-car parade at lunchtime on Saturday 27 July. The Silverstone Classic always [...]
March 20, 2013
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News : JLR posts strong sales in February
Jaguar Land Rover sold 26,855 vehicles during February, an increase of 3% versus the same period last year. During the first two months of the year, Jaguar Land Rover sold 61,732 vehicles, up 18%. February sales were up in almost every major market: 20% in Asia Pacific, 20% in North America, 15% in the UK, [...]
March 15, 2013
· Keith Adams · 26 Comments
Geneva Motor Show 2013 : JLR round-up
Words and photography Andrew Elphick In the middle of hall five, spanning adjacent stands Tata’s luxury brands, Jaguar and Land Rover stood bold as brass – and with good reason. AROnline was present at the press conference, and here our the best bits, just for you: First up, making its European launch was the XFR-S [...]
March 10, 2013
· Keith Adams · 16 Comments
News : Celebrating Cowley’s centenary
The MINI factory at Cowley will lead the celebrations of a centenary of car-making in Oxford, on 28 March 2013 – 100 years to the day when the first Bullnose Morris Oxford was built by William Morris, a few hundred metres from where the modern plant stands today. Twenty cars were built each week at [...]
March 9, 2013
· Keith Adams · 50 Comments
Blog : Salon sickness with Charles Morgan and Ratan Tata
Steven Ward spends three days in the Geneva Salon emerging only for beer and chips On Tuesday 5 March within Hall six of the 83rd Geneva motor show, AROnline’s three Muppeteers comprising of Steven Ward, Andrew Elphick and Robert Leitch are slouching within the confines of Morgan’s home-made stand which was sponsored by Banque Baring [...]
March 8, 2013
· Keith Adams · 12 Comments
News : JLR to double engine plant workforce
Headline Auto Jaguar Land Rover, already the UK’s leading automotive investor in research and development with a £3billion spend in 2012, is doubling the number of jobs at is new Wolverhampton engine plant to 1400. Dr Ralf Speth, Chief Executive Officer, said that the 700 new jobs at the four-cylinder engine plant, due on stream by [...]
March 6, 2013
· Keith Adams · 16 Comments
Advertorial : Top five car accessories currently on the market
Our cars are swiftly turning into sophisticated pieces of computer technology, and industry experts are predicting an explosion in the number of apps and options that will come with new cars. In fact, some are even predicting that by 2015, all new cars will be connected to the Internet. Of course, with the new cars, [...]
March 6, 2013
· Keith Adams · 8 Comments
News : Geneva Motor Show 2013 – all the stories
Keith Adams The 83rd Geneva Motor Show has been stacked with a huge number of new car launches, many of which have been fully described in the weeks leading up to it. But despite that, seeing the cars in the metal for the first time is still very exciting. There was a special buzz in [...]
March 5, 2013
· Keith Adams · 8 Comments
Blog : Why MG appears to have a lot to learn from Qoros
Words: Keith Adams Photography: Andrew Elphick I’m not sure how I felt when I saw just how impressive the new Qoros 3 Sedan looked at Geneva. It would seem that we’ve all been looking in the wrong direction when talking about a European invasion by China. Many of us assumed that the leading light in [...]
March 5, 2013
· Keith Adams · 29 Comments
Geneva Motor Show 2013 : The girls
Keith Adams No motor show report would be complete without a line-up of some of the models who helped attract the attention of the world’s automotive photographic corps. It’s interesting to note that, in previous years, the attractiveness of the models has been inversely proportional to that of the cars they were representing. But don’t [...]
March 5, 2013
· Keith Adams · 2 Comments
Geneva Motor Show 2013 : Chamber of horrors
Keith Adams Every year, without fail, Geneva serves up some of the wildest and most amazing concepts and prototypes. They’re built by a range of companies – from the largest multi-national, through the smallest supercar manufacturer to the tuners and design houses of the world. In the old days, the most ‘extreme’ were housed in [...]
March 5, 2013
· Keith Adams · 12 Comments
