Month: November 2011

Keith Adams and Mike Humble …and this one’s a bit special It’s the smell that hits you first when you walk through the front doors of Derek Ketteringham’s place in […]

Words and pictures: Mike Humble After selling on for a small profit, the SAAB has gone to live in deepest Kent – So not being a person to think for […]

Keith Adams Okay, so we kicked up a storm about the MG6 – both in terms of marketing, and nationality. So, I’m going to neatly sidestep this issue in this […]

Okay, so we kicked up a storm about the MG6 – both in terms of marketing, and nationality. So, I’m going to neatly sidestep this issue in this blog and […]

Keith Adams For anyone who’s in any doubt that the UK remains at the absolute pinnacle of automotive engineering, here’s a glimpse into McLaren’s new production centre. The McLaren MP4-12C […]

Keith Adams We love the Jaguar XKR-S at AROnline. It’s a British car that we can all be very proud of, both in terms of straight line performance (it’ll do […]

Euro NCAP’s fifth and last launch of 2011 presents the results for 14 new cars, with the MG6, Jaguar XF scoring four stars. But the Range Rover Evoque stole the […]

Keith Adams Back at Longbridge yesterday to pick up an MG6 saloon, as I’ve yet to sample one first hand. Was greeted by PR man Doug Wallace, and had a […]

It has been announced today that Toby Silverton, the Managing Director of Bristol Cars, is stepping down in order to concentrate on his aviation businesses. Toby Silverton said: “I am […]

Keith Adams Anyone who doesn’t know how far I’ll go for my passion for old cars, consider this. When I heard that a friend was going to leave his 1991 […]

Keith Adams Despite the arrival of undisguised cars shown exclusively to China Car Times last week, the MG5 proved elusive at this year’s Guangzhao Auto Show. The website had shown […]

Steven Ward Following a life time of buying really daft and/or crap cars (new and old), I’ve established a few rules which I now live by when it comes to […]

‘I took delivery of the Volt on 12 December last year,’ Jay Leno said in a telephone interview before appearing Tuesday at a Chevrolet event held in conjunction with the […]

Keith Adams Only one aircraft manufacturer makes cars Spare a moment for poor old Saab. Over the past three years, the once-proud company has endured a humiliating fall from grace […]

Keith Adams China Car Times has published the first clear images of the MG5, after months of rendered speculation across the Internet. The car will be officially launched on Monday […]

Keith Adams I’ve seen this before on TV – the famous Liver Run, where two Rover SD1 police cars need to transfer a live human organ for transportation in a […]

AROnline’s regular readers may recall that, when our former News Editor, Clive Goldthorp, stood down from that role last July and became Contributing Editor, he did so in order to […]

Mike Humble takes a sideways look at one of the sheds that littered the highways and by-ways of the UK. The Ford Granada Mk2 might have smacked of Teutonic coolness, […]

Keith Adams For anyone in any doubt that the current state of the art when it comes to combining real-world usability with low fuel consumption lies with diesel, they only […]

Keith Adams We’ve already driven the Jaguar XKR-S, and came away from the experience wondering who’d really want to buy an Aston Martin, such was its monstrous all-round ability. It’s […]

Keith Adams I know that I’ve been a little harsh on MG Motor UK recently – what with its disappointing sales (for the 6) and lacklustre (and budget) marketing – […]