Month: September 2010

Keith Adams  Lotus is stepping into the past for the names for its upcoming foursome of sports cars – planned for launch from 2014. The move into the price stratosphere […]

A website which helps motorists and garages to find genuine replacement parts for MG and Rover cars has doubled its visitors in the past year. The mgroverpartfinder.com site received 99.1 percent […]

Keith Adams Jaguar Land Rover’s blitz of the Paris Motor Show continues with the arrival of the Range Rover Evoque 5-Door. The 3-Door ‘soft roader’ has already attracted considerable interest […]

Keith Adams AFTER four years and countless hours of collaboration with me, Roy Axe’s autobiography, A Life In Style, is set to hit the bookshelves on the 15th October. It’s […]

Keith Adams It’s already being described as the star of the Paris Motor Show, but the Jaguar C-X75 – a turbine-powered electric supercar concept with scarcely believable levels of technology […]

Rick Kranz, Automotive News Europe, 29th September, 2010 TROLLHATTAN, Sweden – BMW AG and Saab Automobile AB signed an agreement today for BMW to supply engines for Saab’s next-generation 9-3. Under […]

Jemma Rochelle Hawtrey AROnline’s regular readers will probably recall that I recently got my hands on that Bangernomics classic, a Renault Safrane 2.2, which was first registered on the 20th February, 1995 and an automatic no less. […]

Keith Adams I’ve been saying for a while that the Rover 620 is the best used car (made by BMC>MG) in the real world and that, in time, I need […]

David Evans, Rallies Editor, Autosport, 24th September, 2010 Prodrive’s Technical Director, David Lapworth, says the team will be testing the MINI Countryman WRC for one week per month for the […]

Mark Tisshaw, News Reporter, Autocar, 24th September, 2010 Gert Hildebrand, MINI’s Design Director, has ruled out the possibility of opening a Design Studio in Britain. Hilderbrand, who was speaking to Autocar at a […]

Jake Lingeman, Automotive News Europe/AutoWeek, 24th September, 2010 BMW’s MINI brand is bringing its electric-powered Scooter E concept to this year’s Paris Motor Show. It gives MINI a response to […]

Paul McVeigh, Automotive News Europe, 23rd September, 2010 Land Rover has now issued more information about the Range Rover Evoque, which was first unveiled in July, ahead of the model’s […]

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the leading manufacturer of luxury vehicles, is seeking more than 1,000 talented Engineers, Supervisors and Production Operators to help launch the all new Range Rover Evoque […]

Live Promotions Events Limited, the company behind the Race Retro Historic Motorsport Show, has just announced that next year’s International MG Show and Spares Day will be held at Warwickshire’s Stoneleigh Park on […]

Automotive News Europe, 21st September, 2010 SHANGHAI (Bloomberg) – SAIC Motor Corp. said it may invest in the initial public offering of partner General Motors Co., cementing ties between the […]

Adam Sloman  Though the UK launch of the MG6 now looks set to be delayed until 2011, the model’s development in China is continuing apace, with the MG6 Sports concept, […]

Automotive News Europe, 20th September, 2010 SEOUL (Bloomberg) – SAIC Motor Corp. said it’s ‘closely watching” the initial public offering of General Motors Co. after Reuters reported the Chinese company […]

Steven Ward, ever the critical second-rate Salesman, lays bare some of the 600’s faults and failures. I’m annoyed, very annoyed – and have been for quite a while now – by this subject. […]

Keith Adams I’ve just spent the day merging the WordPress News  and Blogs pages hosted on AROnline to become one – and, in doing so, created AROnline Live. It should all work […]

Richard Bremner, Senior Contributing Editor, Autocar, 17th September, 2010 MG Motor is now building the first batches of pre-production MG6s at Longbridge as it ramps up for series production early […]

MG Motor UK Limited’s parent company, SAIC Motor Corporation Limited, has won a major award for investing in Britain. The coveted Chinese Investor of the Year award is in recognition […]