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Month: April 2010

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Jaguar : 75th Anniversary celebrations on the Mille Miglia 2010

29 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

Jaguar is continuing the celebration of its 75th Anniversary with a strong entry in this year’s Mille Miglia revival event.  The company is represented by a total of 27 vehicles from around the […]

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XPart : New range of Classic Mini parts launched

29 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

There are around 35,000 Classic Mini owners in the UK and demand for genuine Classic Mini parts continues to grow.  XPart has therefore now introduced a range of new and improved front and […]

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China Watch : SAIC Motor’s Q1 net profit soars

29 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

Gasgoo.com/Reuters, 29th April, 2010 SAIC Motor Corp., China’s biggest automaker, posted a more than quadrupling in first-quarter net profit, as Beijing’s policy support continues to draw buyers into showrooms in […]

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Jaguar XF : Police version hits the Midlands’ motorways

28 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 12

The first ever Police-spec XF is about to go on patrol across the Midlands. The Central Motorway Police Group has bought seven high performance Police vehicles based on the award-winning […]

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Roewe E1 Concept : Is the Rover Spiritual back from the dead?

26 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

Ash Sutcliffe, China Car Times, 25th April, 2010 The Rover Spiritual was set to be the car that would replace the ancient Rover Metro and take Rover back into the […]

The Saab 9000 after a ten-hour day getting its paintwork sorted.
Opinion

Bringing it back up to scratch

25 April 2010 Keith Adams 4

Keith Adams The ongoing return to normality continues for the Saab 9000 Aero. It’s been a horrible experience all-round – as a quick recap, I sent the car away for […]

Toyota Prius: All it's cracked up to be?
Opinion

The hybrid hoax

24 April 2010 Keith Adams 5

Jemma Hawtrey There is a saying in Los Angeles – ‘failed celebrities don’t die, they just buy a Toyota Prius…’ and it must be true because it’s a saying… In […]

AROnline News

MG ZERO Concept : British design stars at Auto China 2010

23 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 30

Clive Goldthorp SAIC Motor has, as anticipated, officially unveiled the MG ZERO Concept car at Auto China 2010 in Beijing today. The Birmingham-based MG Global Design Team, led by British […]

MG6 will spearhead the marque's international push...
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MG Motor UK : MG-Rover.org’s Steve Childs interviews Guy Jones

23 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

Clive Goldthorp MG-Rover.org’s Steve Childs has kindly given AROnline permission to publish the full text of the wide-ranging interview which he conducted with MG Motor UK Limited’s Sales and Marketing […]

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Press Report : Longbridge back in full flow at last

21 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Mail, 21st April, 2010 Longbridge is up and running again – with 25 MG TF sports cars rolling off the lines every week at the world-famous Birmingham […]

Rover Vitesse on carbs and a whiff of tax could be yours for around £700
Kerbcrawling

Blog : Kerbcrawling in Essex

20 April 2010 Keith Adams 6

Keith Adams A much-needed day off work, and what better way to spend the day relaxing than going trawling the ‘golden mile’ of car dealerships in Southend with my mate […]

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Press Report : Jaguar Land Rover denies factory rumours

19 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

Autocar, 19th April, 2010 Tata Motors Europe CEO Carl-Peter Forster has denied a report claiming Jaguar Land Rover was set to reverse its decision to keep one of its Midlands […]

Opinion

It’s all in the detail

19 April 2010 Keith Adams 6

Keith Adams    Following a nice day out at Longbridge yesterday, I decided it was time to stop ignoring all those little cosmetic issues that my Polski-Rover has and get them […]

Opinion

A Dream Realised

18 April 2010 Sam Skelton 1

Sam Skelton Polski-Rover at Pride of Longbridge My very first memory, earlier even than family events such as holidays and birthdays, is of my father’s old SD1 Vanden Plas. A […]

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Press Report : Jaguar Land Rover factory may survive as sales rise

18 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

The Sunday Times, 18th April, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is weighing a dramatic about-face on plans to close one of its three UK production plants. Sources close to the […]

Opinion

1000 miles in three days

18 April 2010 Keith Adams 4

Mike Humble That’s nothing! I hear the reader cry! To do 1000 miles in three days in a car, but okay then, how about if the car is coming up […]

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China Watch : New MG3 images hit the Internet

16 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 51

Ash Sutcliffe, China Car Times, 12th April, 2010 Pictures of a future MG3 were released onto the Internet earlier today, sparking rumours of possible engine combinations for the MG3 which will officially […]

AROnline News

MGLive! : MG6 to make public debut at Silverstone in June

16 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

Clive Goldthorp AROnline may have only just run a story about MG Motor UK Limited’s pre-launch media initiative for the MG6 yesterday but that programme has already moved up a […]

Alexander's Rover 800

Our cars : Alexander’s Rover 800 – Stranded

16 April 2010 Alexander Boucke 3

Alexander Boucke The Munich-Barcelona Vitesse had an attack of heritage yesterday – it left me stranded at the office in the evening… Now with the weather getting warmer, the PGM-FI […]

AROnline News

MG6 : MG Motor UK starts pre-launch media initiative

15 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 2

Clive Goldthorp AROnline seems to have beaten most of the Internet-based, English-language motoring media off the line by running Nigel Garton’s First Drive story on the MG6 last December. However, following SAIC […]

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Press Report : Jaguar sees sales boost from new XJ

14 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

Diana T. Kurylko, Automotive News Europe, 13th April, 2010 Jaguar executives are counting on the redesigned XJ to boost global sales by as much as 50 percent this year. The […]

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XPart : Competition to find MG Rover with most interesting history launched

13 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

XPart is offering prizes to the MG Rover owners with the most interesting stories to tell in an ongoing bid to keep the British manufacturer’s heritage alive. MG Rover parts […]

AROnline News

China Watch : SAIC Motor Q1 net profit more than quadruples

9 April 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

Gasgoo.com/Reuters, 9th April, 2010 SAIC Motor Corp, China’s biggest automaker, said on Friday its first-quarter net profit rose to more than four times from the year-ago result while March vehicle […]

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