Month: August 2004

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 […]