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Month: August 2004

AROnline News

News : August 2004

28 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

MGR/Pininfarina link…? 27 August 2004 Now that development of the RD/X60 is back on track (see story below), it is up to MG Rover to get the car into production […]

Archive

Archive : MG in new cars link with Chinese maker

25 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

Financial Times By John Griffiths, Motoring Editor MG Rover and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp, China’s largest carmaker, intend to form a joint venture company to collaborate on developing and manufacturing […]

Archive

Archive : MG Rover dismisses any talk of being shanghaied

24 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

Archive

Archive : MG Rover “to be sold to Chinese carmaker”

23 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

Archive

Archive : SAIC to buy MG Rover?

23 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

Jaguar XJ (XJ40)

Why we love the… Jaguar XJ40

17 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

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, […]

Morris Minor

Why we love the… Morris Minor Traveller

17 August 2004 admin 0

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 […]

Opinion

Why we love the… Rover Sterling

17 August 2004 admin 0

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!! […]

Opinion

Why we love the… Dolomite Sprint

17 August 2004 admin 3

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 […]

Midget

Why we love the… the Spridget

17 August 2004 admin 6

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 […]

Opinion

Why we love the… Rover SD1

17 August 2004 admin 0

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 […]

Opinion

Why we love the… Princess

17 August 2004 admin 0

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 […]

Opinion

Why we love the… Rover P6

17 August 2004 admin 2

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 […]

Mini

Why we love the… Mini

17 August 2004 admin 2

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 […]

Austin Maxi (ADO14)

Why we love the… Maxi 1750

17 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

Austin/MG Maestro (LC10)

Why we love the… Austin Maestro

17 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

Opinion

Why we love the… Triumph Herald

17 August 2004 admin 1

“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 […]

Austin Allegro (ADO67)

Why we love the… Austin Allegro

17 August 2004 admin 2

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 […]

BMC 1100/1300 (ADO16)

Why we love the… BMC 1100

17 August 2004 Declan Berridge 3

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; […]

Opinion

Essay : L’affaire Renault

7 August 2004 admin 2

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 […]

Events

Events : BMC/BL Rally 2004

2 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

Opinion

Blogs : August 2004

1 August 2004 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

Car of the Month

Car of the Month : August 2004

1 August 2004 Keith Adams 1

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 […]

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