Month: December 2005

Longbridge production still looking like a long shot. KEITH ADAMS SHANGHAI and Nanjing now appear to have extracted much of what they want from MG Rover and Longbridge, and are […]

Leafing through another batch of Longbridge pictures, I can’t help but wonder why it is that I still feel deep pangs of emotion at the scenes of abandonment at the factory. […]

So Radford is back and we should all be celebrating? Well, in a way, yes… I know, having just spent some time behind the wheel of the company MD’s MINI […]

R75/ZT production line The railway lines …a closer look The elevated tunnel The lines are silent… Crushed bodyshells Nothing but scrap now Bell and Howell no more The silence is […]

So now we have two groups of potentials talking about building a modern Austin-Healey… Whatever happens, I think we’ll see this car appear, and that gives me a warm feeling […]

I know it has been in force for some time now, but I’m still trying to get my head around how the newer lower speed limit of 40mph for trucks on […]

Just in case you lot think I’ve recovered my sanity by buying my lovely Rover SD1, I just thought I’d show you a picture of my ‘other’ new project. Bought from […]

I think it has been about a year since I sold my last SD1, in what must be described as a fit of pique… It came down to this – my […]

We end the saddest of years in Rover’s history with perhaps a snapshot of the state of the marque as it stands today – a high-mileage, diesel powered R8… Before […]