Month: November 2009

Alun Thorne, Birmingham Post, 27th November, 2009 The company owned by the former bosses of MG Rover has paid £3 million to creditors of the firm. The so-called Phoenix Four […]

Keith Adams I’m sitting here feeling a little sorry for myself, suffering from a pair of cracked ribs and a dented ego (yeah, I don’t practice what I preach when working […]

Sam Skelton A new SD1: based upon Jaguar’s XF and styled to blend with the Jaguar Land Rover range. Could something like this be the next X-Type? I guess that […]

Automotive News Europe, 23rd November, 2009 GUANGZHOU (Reuters) SAIC Motor plans to begin manufacturing its new MG6 sedan in the UK at the end of next year, the company said. SAIC […]

Clive Goldthorp SAIC Motor-owned MG’s most important hatchback since the 1981 MG Metro has been launched in its home market of China today. The MG6 is a five-door fastback which features conventionally handsome styling […]

First thing’s first, I’ll lay it on the line now: I like the MG6. There, I said it and, from what I have seen of the car – and that’s no […]

Keith Adams First thing’s first, I’ll lay it on the line now: I like the MG6. There, I said it and, from what I have seen of the car – and […]

Keith Adams Regular readers might remember me saying that I was keeping the Metro and letting the 200 go to a new owner. Well, over the weekend that happened, when […]

Adam Sloman I love buying cars, can’t help it, always have. I love the hunt, through the Internet and the free ad papers, it’s great fun, and it’s even more […]

MUMBAI (Reuters) — India’s Tata conglomerate is looking around the world for a successor to Ratan Tata, the 71-year-old Chairman of the sprawling salt-to-automaker group said in an interview with […]

Keith Adams Against my better judgment, I’ve been tooling around in a Rover Metro 1.4LD for the past couple of weeks in order to save while I drive. In its first […]

Martin Arnold, FT.com, 16th November, 2009 Jaguar Land Rover will today announce that it has secured a new £170m working capital facility from GE Capital, allowing it to start making […]

Alun Thorne, Birmingham Post, 16th November, 2009 Vilified Phoenix Four Directors Peter Beale and John Edwards are in line for a massive multi-million pound Christmas bonus from the remnants of […]

John Cranage, Industrial Editor, Birmingham Post, 12th November, 2009 With General Motors’ European boss Carl-Peter Forster tipped to join Tata, Industrial Editor John Cranage looks at the possible implications his […]

Dominic O’Connell, The Sunday Times, 8th November, 2009 Carl-Peter Forster, the departing boss of General Motors Europe, has been lined up to take charge of Jaguar Land Rover, the Midlands-based […]

Keith Adams It’s been a funny old week and one that will go down in my life as a landmark really. Why? Well, in the space of a couple of days, […]

Jon Walker, Birmingham Post, 4th November, 2009 The Government has offered to back legal action forcing former Rover Directors to hand over up to £22 million to former employees and […]

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Post, 3rd November, 2009 Unions have called a high level summit of MPs to an emergency meeting at the House of Commons to preserve thousands of West […]

There’s a lot of Wedge-love on AROnline, and we reckon that the most delicious examples of all are the original 18/22 Series models that only ran for a matter of […]