Month: December 2008

Diana T. Kurylko, Automotive News, 15th December, 2008 MINI USA will add 10 dealers by the end of 2010 as the brand continues its rapid, recession-defying growth. The additional stores […]

Keith Adams The Metro Owners Club has been up and running for nearly a year – mainly as an online community. However, as of the 1st February 2009, it’s going […]

MG Enthusiast Magazine MG UK is implementing the full 2.5% VAT reduction on the TF LE500 from 1st December 2008. The TF LE500 is now priced at £16,055 following the […]

According to Autoblog, the state that the Big Three in the USA now find themselves in is rather precarious. After collectively going cap-in-hand to congress (in the most eco-cars they could find) and asking […]

Keith Adams According to Autoblog, the state that the Big Three in the USA now find themselves in is rather precarious. After collectively going cap-in-hand to congress (in the most eco-cars they could find) […]

Keith Adams AROnline’s readers are probably already pretty familiar with the products of Mitsuoka thanks to our Faking it gallery – but, for any who are not, the Japanese company builds […]

Song Jung-a in Seoul, Financial Times, 4th December, 2008 Faced with the acute credit crunch, SsangYong Motor said it asked its Chinese parent to provide financial support for the development […]

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Mail, 5th December, 2008 Land Rover saw its monthly UK sales plunge by nearly two-thirds in November as the consumer spending crisis took a brutal toll on […]

Thanks to my mate, Andrew Elphick, I spent a delightful evening browsing the Autotrader website looking at cars for sale. There’s nothing odd about that particularly but, given that 2008 […]

Keith Adams Thanks to my mate, Andrew Elphick, I spent a delightful evening browsing the Autotrader website looking at cars for sale. There’s nothing odd about that particularly but, given […]

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Post, 2nd December, 2008 Tata Motors is appealing for investment from the Indian public to help meet the costs of its purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover. […]

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Post, 2nd December, 2008 Warwickshire luxury car maker Aston Martin is to cut up to 600 jobs – as it celebrates the second most successful year in […]

Ian Nicholls I suppose that this blog might make me unpopular but, with Tata/Jaguar/Land Rover asking for a handout from HM Government, perhaps now is time to question whether state aid for […]

just-auto.com Editorial Team, 1st December, 2008 An in-house engineering team and two major component suppliers have together developed Land Rover’s new fuel-saving stop-start technology which will be available on manual diesel Freelander […]

Diana T. Kurylko, Automotive News Europe, 1st December, 2008 In the long run, a repositioned Jaguar selling only premium cars could achieve the same sales levels as Porsche, says Mike […]

The final Car of The Month for 2008 goes to yet another overseas reader, Todd Fitch from Seattle, Washington, USA, who also wins the AROnline award for the being one […]