Month: May 2010

Jorn Madslien, Business Reporter, BBC News, 28th May, 2010 Carmaker Jaguar Land Rover is going to start assembling vehicles in China, the BBC can confirm. “We will need to manufacture […]

Greg Kable, German Editor, Autocar, 28th May, 2010 MINI has kicked off studies into an affordable city car as part of a programme aimed at boosting sales by adding new […]

Automotive News China, 28th May, 2010 SHANGHAI – SAIC Motor Corp. says it will start producing MG6 sedans at its British plant by the end of this year and will […]

Clive Goldthorp Our Editor, Keith Adams, normally undertakes AROnline’s Test Drive duties – I do not really have the driving skills necessary to push new models to their limits and […]

Clive Goldthorp AROnline visited MG Birmingham recently and our News Editor, Clive Goldthorp, met MG Motor UK Limited’s Sales and Marketing Director, Guy Jones, and new PR and Events Manager, […]

Mike Humble    Well, another month rolls by in the Rover with not a care in the world besides some pleb stealing my rear wiper blade. Everything is sorted, new MoT, […]

Richard Aucock MINI is expanding vehicle production abroad with the new Austrian-built Countryman. The model is assembled by Magna Steyr in Graz, using a production line to be shared with […]

Keith Adams I must admit that it’s been a tough few weeks for AROnline. Firstly, there was a serious outage at Streamline.net that deprived us of our Forum, News and […]

Keith Adams Thanks to the efforts of eagle-eyed AROnline reader Nigel Ribbons, we now know that the MG6 is being tested in the UK in saloon form, as well as […]

Auto Express, 18th May, 2010  Auto Express has obtained the first undisguised images of the eagerly anticipated compact Range Rover and the first pictures of the new, facelifted Land Rover Freelander.  […]

Automotive News China, 18th May, 2010 Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC）was the largest Chinese motor vehicle manufacturer last year by revenue. The company reaped a total of 404.9 billion yuan […]

Paul McVeigh, Automotive News Europe, 14th May, 2010 The revival of Jaguar Land Rover continued in April with global unit sales of the two British brands growing 61 percent, compared […]

Tristan Young, just-auto.com, 10th May, 2010   Land Rover on Monday set out its ‘eco’ powertrain plans for the next 15-20 years including full-hybrids, plug-in hybrids and fuel cell vehicles. Peter […]

Tristan Young, just-auto.com, 10th May, 2010 Range Rover’s new small SUV, due on sale next year, will be offered as a range of two and four-wheel drive models, Land Rover Managing […]

Keith Adams   Firstly, apologies to all the regular AROnline forum users out there. Due to a massive problem with our hosts, Streamline.net, the Forum, News and Blogs pages have been down and […]

Nigel Garton It seems that the final MG Rover test and development cars have been sent to the crusher by SAIC Motor after being allowed to languish at Longbridge for […]

Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post, 6th May, 2010 Land Rover is creating 275 new jobs at its plant in Solihull following a surge in demand which saw the firm record the […]

Mike Humble As most of us know, Michelotti styled some fantastic motor cars including our very own Triumph 2000, Dolomite and Stag to name some but a few. But what […]

Mike Humble  THE QUIET market town of Horsham sleeps in leafy West Sussex – close enough to London when you need it to be yet far enough away to avoid its […]

Keith Adams   IT’S GOOD to know that there’s some love for my Polski-Rover out there. Whenever I take it out onto the mean streets of Eastern England, it’s met with […]

Mike Humble  Well, it was going swimmingly for my 214: another year’s MoT, some serious mileage in just three days and plenty of admiring comments at the Pride of Longbridge […]