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Month: September 2010

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MINI’s WRC return : Q & A with BMW AG’s Ian Robertson

30 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 2

MINI’s Press Office released this Q&A with Ian Robertson, Member of the Board of Management – Sales and Marketing, BMW AG earlier today. Q. MINI is back in motorsport. What […]

AROnline News

Press Report : MINI unveils WRC car and confirms Meeke as driver

30 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

David Evans, Rallies Editor, Autosport, 30th September, 2010   MINI has launched its World Rally Car at the Paris Motor Show – and confirmed Britain’s Kris Meeke as part of […]

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Paris 2010 : Lotus’ brave new world unveiled

30 September 2010 Keith Adams 13

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 […]

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XPart : MG Rover Partfinder website doubles visitor numbers

30 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

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 […]

Range Rover Evoque five-door
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Range Rover : Evoque 5-Door breaks cover

30 September 2010 Keith Adams 28

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 […]

Roy Axe: A Life in Style
Opinion

Finally, it’s going to happen!

29 September 2010 Keith Adams 17

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 […]

AROnline News

Jaguar : C-X75 Concept stars at Paris Motor Show

29 September 2010 Keith Adams 30

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 […]

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Press Report : MINI engines to be used in Saab 9-3 replacement

29 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

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 […]

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Opinion

The joys of tech… or not?

27 September 2010 Keith Adams 13

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. […]

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Our Cars : Project Rover 620Si

27 September 2010 Keith Adams 12

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 […]

AROnline News

Press Report : MINI set for increased WRC test programme

24 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 1

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 […]

AROnline News

Press Report : MINI rules out the opening a UK-based Design Studio

24 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 12

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 […]

AROnline News

Press Report : MINI Scooter E concepts to debut at Paris Motor Show

24 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 5

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 […]

Range Rover Evoque
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Press Report : Range Rover Evoque to start at £30,000 in UK

23 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 1

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 […]

AROnline News

Jaguar Land Rover : Recruitment campaign for over 1,000 Halewood jobs

23 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 11

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 […]

AROnline News

The International MG Show : Promoters announce date for 2011 event

23 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 1

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 […]

AROnline News

China Watch : Chairman Hu Maoyuan says SAIC Motor may take GM stake

21 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

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 […]

AROnline News

China Watch : MG6 Sports concept appears at Chengdu Motor Show

20 September 2010 Adam Sloman 28

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, […]

AROnline News

China Watch : SAIC Motor “closely watching” General Motors’ IPO

20 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 0

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 […]

AROnline

Essays : Short-selling the Syncro

20 September 2010 Keith Adams 59

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. […]

Opinion

A bit of a revision

20 September 2010 Keith Adams 15

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 […]

AROnline News

Press Report : Pre-production MG6s now in build at MG Birmingham

17 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 4

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 […]

AROnline News

SAIC Motor : Chinese Investor of the Year for investment at MG Birmingham

15 September 2010 Clive Goldthorp 1

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 […]

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