Month: December 2009

Keith Adams Amazingly, it’s that time again – hasn’t this decade gone quickly? It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was ringing in the new millennium, keeping a watching eye on […]

Keith Adams Well, finally, I’ve had a chance to give my SD1 its first run since getting it back from Poland, and it’s a mixture of good and bad news, but mainly […]

Keith Adams      Well, Christmas and Boxing Day are out of the way and the snow’s cleared to such an extent that I can finally get the garage open and […]

Keith Adams    It’s been a challenging 2009, that’s for sure… and, from what I’m hearing, 2010 is going to be more of the same, even as the rest of […]

Jack Rix, Auto Express, 16th December, 2009 In a surprise move MINI has unveiled a brand-new concept car designed as a successor to the famous Sixties Moke. The car is […]

Clive Goldthorp Alfa Romeo and MG – two of the Automotive Industry’s most historic and iconic, but often troubled, sporting marques – have much in common at the moment. The […]

Sir Richard O’Brien Sir Richard O’Brien, who died on December 11 2009 aged 89, chaired the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) from 1976 to 1982 and later served as chairman of […]

Jaguar Land Rover North America has just announced that the Jaguar and Land Rover brands have achieved the first and fifth highest scores respectively in the industry for customer sales satisfaction in […]

Keith Adams £100 and it’s yours… See my forum post: Project for sale. £100 takes it away. The car was full welded to MoT standard, which it then passed, then […]

Keith Adams Now my Rover SD1 is well on its way back to recovery, there’s the thorny issue of my Alfasud. It’s been languishing in storage now for about three […]

Jaguar’s UK sales in November have risen by 50 per cent compared to the same month last year with a total of 1463 models sold. This success has been led […]

Automotive News Europe, 4th December, 2009 SHANGHAI (Reuters) – General Motors will sell a 1 percent stake in its existing China venture with partner SAIC Motor for about $85 million, […]

Automotive News Europe, 3rd December, 2009 SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co. partner SAIC Motor, China’s biggest automaker, said on Thursday it suspended its trading on the […]

Roger Blaxall Friday, 30th November. It’s a very special date for me – two years ago I took the plunge and invested all of £150 in a Rover 416 SLi […]

Ian Nicholls In 2009 Jaguar cars unveiled the latest XJ saloon against a background of world recession and uncertainty about the financial strength of its new owners, the Indian conglomerate […]

Rover SD1s. Ah the V8, the Vanden Plas, the Vitesse… but what about the more regular models in the range? We celebrate Gareth Hopkins’ award-winning 2300 Series 2 model by […]

MG Rover parts specialist XPart now offers the best known aftermarket solution for head gasket repairs on K-Series engines Technicians tasked with replacing head gaskets on MG Rover K-Series engines […]

David Bailey, Birmingham Post, 29th November, 2009 After being clobbered by the double whammy of recession and credit crunch, it’s wonderful to see JLR back in the black (in operating […]

Tom Ellis It is with great sadness, as a discerning enthusiast of all things Birmingham-built, that I am writing about the end of an era. Yes, I am talking about […]