Blogs : December 2006
28 December Missed opportunity By MARK MASTROTOTARO WE love em; being BMC>Rover fans, we have so many so many missed opportunites to choose from! However, one that’s struck me hardest […]
28 December Missed opportunity By MARK MASTROTOTARO WE love em; being BMC>Rover fans, we have so many so many missed opportunites to choose from! However, one that’s struck me hardest […]
Jaguar’s S-TYPE replacement gets a familar name The signs are good for the Jaguar XF. (Pic: Automotive.com) Jaguar Cars recently announced that its new sporting saloon and direct replacement for […]
We believe in value for money at austin-rover.co.uk, and where better to get it than in this month’s CoTM – a Rover SD1 with twice as many cylinders as your […]
30 November Has the TR7 finally come of age? By ANTHONY ENDSOR DURING the course of my time off college thanks to illness I have been pondering the last real […]
RDX60 – 3/4 front RDX60 – 3/4 rear RDX60 – five door 3/4 rear RDX60 – five door 3/4 front RDX60 mule interior ZT-Tourer testing? Race fliers? Prototype braking parts […]
View from the road Industrial backdrop Apostrophe warning More warnings MG TF shell Facelift 75 bumper Stores galore Asbestos warnings Plenty of parts Seat testing Crash test car A closer […]
Get exclusive access to the Gaydon workshop THE next www.austin-rover.co.uk meet takes place next weekend (November 26) at the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire – and although we can’t […]
While the rest of the world concentrated on the potent turbocharged MINI Cooper S, we took its normally aspirated brother for a thrash around the Spanish Pyrénées – and learned […]
For a while, commentators have marked the Rover Tomcat out as a future classic. Well, we reckon they’re wrong… as they all ready are. The car already has a cult […]
Longbridge production of MG TF moves closer… MG TF body production facility is moving from Stadco in Coventry to Longbridge – and a facelift is on the cars JOHN REVILL, […]
28 October …glad to be back By KEITH ADAMS Generation ‘Rover’, ‘Roewe’, ‘Rower’, ‘Wrong Way’… looks okay doesn’t it? WOW! Ten days without a blog – it must have looked […]
Have you ever wondered what happens to all those motor show star cars? We have – and when we heard from site reader, TOM MATTHEWS, and his left hand drive […]
28 September We’re back By KEITH ADAMS SO Jaguar wilted… and Rover stepped up to the plate. Yup, that’s the story of our Staples2Naples rally – and truth be told, […]
NAC-MG opens new powerplant factory SHANGHAI DAILY Getting there NANJING Automobile Corp, the Chinese owner of the assets of British carmaker MG Rover, said it will begin producing MG engines […]
1: Background Views like this made it all worthwhile: Stelvio pass photographed from the top… I LOVE motoring marathons – and I’m sure most you lot do, too. I’d already […]
2: Preparations 25 March Ahhh that’s more like it. 221bhp and rear wheel drive will prove very handy indeed for those tricky Alpine passes. (Picture: Phil Weeden) WE don’t yet […]
The rally Day Two, Saint-Louis to Aprica Cook Pass Babtridge takes a breather on the banks of Reschensee in Italy. OKAY, so things weren’t going brilliantly for us, having lost […]
For all those out there who happen to think that the Rover 75 V8 is a rare beast – here’s something a little more special for you… Mark Baxter has […]
29 August Brilliant… By KEITH ADAMS BEING lucky to have what I reckon is one of the best jobs in the worlds has its perks – yeah, you could say […]
They’re here! RICHARD GUNN A container load of new SD1 parts arrives at Rimmer Bros after languishing in India for years… AS reported previously, Rimmer Bros – the UK’s largest […]
Motoring writer Matthias Jost ponders the ramifications of collaboration with Italy’s perennial bridesmaid: Lancia… THAT bloody globalisation. OK, so it is a necessary evil for the car industry, spreading the […]
Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the austin-rover.co.uk website, a collection of the cars owned by the fans of this site made the annual pilgrimage to Peterborough to show off their […]
MG Rover wanted to build a showcase flagship for the MG range – and when it managed to pick up the Qvale operation in 2001 for a mere £10m, its […]
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