Month: November 2004

CLASSIC car ownership isn’t all it’s cracked up to be… Well, that’s my slant on things anyway. I’m one of the old school, who firmly believes that a car should […]

Since the moment the MG ZT 260 V8 was launched, Rover fans have been clamouring for their own version of this car… Geneva 2004 finally saw their wishes fulfilled, with […]

Now that SAIC has made its global ambitions clear, it has started down the path of global acquisitions. Recently it picked up a 49 per cent stake in Korea’s Ssangyong […]

IT is fair to say the SAIC/MG Rover story hit the press a little sooner than anticipated, thanks to some over-imaginative reporting over at The Independent, but here it is: […]

ASHAMED as I am to admit it, we’re a little underwhelmed by the MG GT Concept here at austin-rover.co.uk. It’s not as if we don’t think it’ll go into production […]

AUTOEXPRESS and AUTOCAR are the UK’s most important weekly car magazines (apart from Classic Car Weekly, of course), commanding between them a circulation of around 200,000 copies per week. Both […]

Well they managed to keep that one quiet, didn’t they? The twee, retro and slightly pudgy 75 saloon has metamorphosized into a truly stunning Coupé. It took a couple of […]

At last! Something positive! So MGR has finally decided to come out of the closet and unveil a couple of intriguing concepts at today’s annual AUTOCAR awards lunch. According to […]

Well, here’s the Adams’ household’s new toy and it has to be said that everything they said about the Alfasud seems to be true. It’s fun and soulful, loves a […]

John Barber: The businessman who tried to make British Leyland work Martin Adeney John Barber, who has died aged 85, was a key player in the government struggle to create […]

From The Times Executive who was handed the poison chalice of trying to run British Leyland at a time when its affairs were irredeemable. WHEN appointed managing director and deputy […]

Dear MGR, If the relationship with TATA has not soured too much following the CityRover debacle, do you think it is possible to open up a dialogue about the Aria […]

The parallels are to be found everywhere: Alfa Romeo and BMC>Rover – two companies, which have produced some of the world’s greatest cars. Government owned during the 1970s, Alfa Romeo […]

29 Nov 2004 Jack Daniels, RIP WE have lost another important figure in BL’s history. After a two-year battle against cancer, Jack Daniels passed away on Saturday evening. We remember […]

Phoenix thought that sticking a V8 engine in the 75 and developing an entirely new floorpan for it was a good idea for a range-topper. The rest of the world […]