Month: August 2004

The Guardian Mark Milner and Jonathan Watts in Beijing MG Rover yesterday played down reports that China’s most powerful home grown carmaker, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, was planning to take […]

Reuters Shanghai Automotive Industry, China’s largest carmaker, plans to buy privately held British automaker MG Rover in a bold push to grab a Western beachhead, the Automotive News Europe weekly […]

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp, China’s largest passenger carmaker, plans to buy MG Rover, say sources in England and China. SAIC will boost its ambitions to become the world’s sixth-largest automaker […]

James Copp-Taylor on the Jaguar XJ40… So, you’ve been driving the very best British 80’s executive motoring has to offer, you know all there is to know about un-reliable electrics, […]

Dave Taylor tells all about his love affair with Rose… “Rose” is a 1966 Morris Minor Traveller. She is called Rose because of her colour: Rose Taupe (a fanciful description […]

James-Copp Taylor loves the Sterling for its speed, style and value for money… People are often asking me that very question, why oh why do you choose to drive that!! […]

Michael Wynn-Williams on the Dolomite Sprint… In seventeenth century Paris there was a certain courtesan whose beguiling power was the ruination of many a young man. Her favourite pastime was […]

For David Jacobs, his love of the “Spridget” runs deep – and can be traced back to a childhood encounter… My first brush with MGs came when I was about […]

Dylan Jones explains why the SD1 is the car for him. Since before I was born, my parents have always had BLMC cars and still do, running a Rover 416GTi […]

John Capon spells out exactly what it is that makes the “Wedge” floats his boat. Imagine a young lad of ten. The year is 1975. The place Exeter (Summerland Street […]

Michael Thomas on what it was that made the Rover P6 a great car… Why have I fallen for the Rover P6? It’s something that began twenty-five years ago. In […]

Ian Nicholls tells it like it is… So the Mini has reached the grand old age of 45, but how and why have so many of us had an ongoing […]

What better car to transport a Moulton bicycle than one that’s Moulton-suspended? Richard Plaxton explains… “What an earth possessed me to buy this car?” is a thought that crosses my […]

Richard Gelder explains why the Maestro is just his cup of tea… My first experience of Austin – Rover cars was when I was about four years old. My dad […]

“Heraldry, what it means to me”, by Dale Turley What does the Triumph Herald mean to me? When I was a small child, my parents always changed their car more […]

Michael Wynn-Williams on his dad’s Allegro Super, and why he owes his life to it… I Dedicate My Life to… …The Austin Allegro This is an industry that arouses such […]

Declan Berridge tells how he fell under the 1100’s spell… To anyone who spent their formative years in the 1970s, the BMC 1100 was an unavoidable part of the landscape; […]

A critique of BL and MG Rover’s involvement with the French giant. Back in the 1970s, BL and Renault had been working together on a joint marketing deal that could […]

For the third year running, austin-rover.co.uk had a stand at the BMC/BL Annual Rally and Spares Day, held each year at Nene Park in Peterborough. ANOTHER scorching day in Cambridgeshire […]

31 Aug 2004 MGR>TVR? By MARK BOARDMAN Some weeks on from the suprise announcement that another independent British specialist car producer had passed into foreign ownership, it seems opportune to […]

The MG ZS has established itself with those-in-the-know as a driver’s car of merit. However, it also seems to have ended up as one of those traditional BMC>Rover specialities: the […]