Month: March 2005

AFTER a busy few months, I’ve decided the time is right to take a few days off for a well-deserved break. No trans-European trips behind the wheel of some turbocharged […]

SO the SAIC/MGR plans are a little clearer today, following the interesting story which ran in today’s Autocar magazine. The upshot is that MG is going SAIC, the MG ZR/Rover […]

YESTERDAY’S MG scenario was one idea, and I suspect one the Phoenix Four will love to pursue… in an ideal world. What if, as has been suggested in some elements […]

SLOWLY, ever so slowly, snippets of information about the SAIC/MGR Joint Venture continue to filter out. One things seems to be emerging – the deal is for Rover only, as […]

IT WAS heartening to see so many cars and their owners turn up to our informal austin-rover.co.uk gathering at Gaydon. After all, it was not an arranged event or anything […]

SPENT yesterday evening in Soho… Good show it was too. No, I wasn’t at the salubrious ‘Tattoo’ Bar, (a landmark, thanks to a six-foot Rupaul look-alike outside), but on the […]

THE thirty-six million MGB fans out there are going to hate me for saying this, but today I came to the conclusion the Rover V8 engine is totally wasted on […]

I’M DRIVING around in an illegal car at the moment… Why’s that, I hear you ask. Well, the headlamp bulb has blown on my Rover 75, and I haven’t been […]

SOME of us Rover fans became excited when rumours begain to circulate that MGR was to compete in the DTM race car series. When drawings of the proposed MGR-Zytek car […]

THEY saw me coming, didn’t they? Compulsive Heap Purchasing Disorder (CHPD) strikes again! In the same way that some people can’t help themselves but take a peek when driving past […]

Richard Jessett is in the fortunate position of owning a very late and tidy silver Rover Tomcat Coupe. Being a late model, it sports the R3-style dashboard, and the VVC […]