Month: April 2010

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]