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Month: March 2012

Opinion

Blog : Where next for Jaguar?

31 March 2012 Keith Adams 40

Keith Adams There’s going to be a Jaguar launch at the upcoming New York motor show. Now I’m not a betting man, but I’d be fairly confident in putting a […]

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News : Bollinger Evoque at a bar near you…

31 March 2012 Keith Adams 21

Keith Adams An unlikely partnership, or a synergy of brands? Whatever way you look at, it, the idea of a Range Rover Evoque Bollinger edition is an appealing one. Crafted […]

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News : Not for Brits, the latest MINI edition

31 March 2012 Keith Adams 7

Keith Adams Just so you know, the latest special edition MINI Cooper, the Rauno Aaltonen Edition has broken cover. But the new car, named after the winner of the prestigious […]

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Skoda Estelle was a memorable steer
All the cars I've owned

All the cars I’ve owned : Škoda Estelle 120L

31 March 2012 Keith Adams 44

In a driving career spanning 25 years and over 150 cars, Keith Adams highlights some of the highs… and lows. In the first of the series, it’s time to recall […]

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News : Fuel panic buying finally eases

31 March 2012 Keith Adams 27

Queues for petrol are easing after unions announced there would be no strike over Easter, motoring organisations say. The government earlier changed its advice to drivers saying it was no […]

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Unsung Heroes

Unsung Heroes : Vauxhall Senator B 1987-1993

31 March 2012 Mike Humble 74

Mike Humble ponders once again over another car which once seemed commonplace but now languishes in penny numbers. This time we applaud the executive saloon which defied the ‘class without kudos’ […]

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Events

Events : British Cars & Lifestyle show report

30 March 2012 Alexander Boucke 4

Used as a season starter by many a European British car enthusiast, the British Cars & Lifestyle in Rosmalen right in the centre of the Netherlands makes a good day […]

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Car Reviews

First Drive : Vauxhall VXR8 Maloo

29 March 2012 Keith Adams 39

Over the past ten years, the VXR brand has slowly established itself as the bad-boy performance badge for people who are looking for something a little ragged than the usual […]

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Opinion

Blog : My bank doesn’t want me to have a new car

28 March 2012 Keith Adams 82

Keith Adams My name is Keith Adams, and my bank doesn’t want me to buy a new car. Last week, I went to look at a new addition to the […]

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Events

Events : Stuttgart and Essen show reports

27 March 2012 Keith Adams 16

A warm March weekend in Germany, and two giant classic car shows went head-to-head. In the northern corner, the Techno-Classica Essen – a UK favourite – and in the south, […]

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News : Land Rover USA hits the quarter century

26 March 2012 Keith Adams 23

The Range Rover was officially introduced to the United States 25 years ago this year in 1987. To celebrate this milestone, Land Rover will host a special celebration in conjunction […]

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Essays : A Tape and a Biro – Radio Cassette Years!

23 March 2012 Mike Humble 97

Mike Humble goes all nostalgic once again and pays tribute to that dying breed of automotive audio – The radio cassette player. They say that as you get older time […]

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The MG Maestro had some pretty serious exposure at the beginning of its life.
Austin/MG Maestro (LC10)

Unsung Heroes : MG Maestro 2.0 EFi

22 March 2012 Mike Humble 108

Another view through rose tinted spectacles at some once common automotive sights here in the UK. This time, our very own Austin Rover features here with their own slant on the […]

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Jaguar XJ is the pinnacle of JLR's range, but could an entry level car built with Chery in China be branded simply, 'Rover'?
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News : JLR and Chery announce proposed JV

21 March 2012 Clive Goldthorp 32

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Chery Automobile Company Limited have reached agreement on a proposed joint venture in China. The agreement follows extensive talks between JLR and Chery on establishing […]

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News : MG KX Momentum Racing – on track, on time at Silverstone

20 March 2012 Clive Goldthorp 20

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: Simon Davies/Pegasus Photographics MG KX Momentum Racing’s nascent 2012 British Touring Car Championship campaign took two significant steps forward at Silverstone yesterday: a just-completed, Triple Eight […]

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BTCC 2012

News : MG6 BTCC challenger goes live!

20 March 2012 Keith Adams 24

Triple Eight unveiled its brand new NGTC MG6 GT at Silverstone, with one car running in the media photography session. The team’s new Next Generation Touring Car MG6 will be […]

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News : Land Rover Overland meets Ukraine

19 March 2012 Keith Adams 1

In a whistle stop week on the Journey of Discovery, a trip to Chernobyl was the haunting highlight of a route intersecting all the intriguing urban hubs of Eastern Europe […]

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Pride of Longbridge 2011 attracted a wide variety of cars
Events

Events : Pride of Longbridge 2012

18 March 2012 Keith Adams 34

Keith Adams The Pride of Longbridge will be running for the seventh time in 2012, and promises to be bigger and better than ever. This year’s gathering at Cofton Park, […]

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A mileage landmark, and no mistake
Our Cars

Our Cars : SD1 reaches a milestone

18 March 2012 Keith Adams 14

Keith Adams Back to the using the SD1 as my daily hack, and despite the driving position, which is increasingly annoying me, I am enjoying using the car in a […]

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The long and, er, straight road beckons
Drive Story

Drive Story : AROnline goes Stateside

18 March 2012 Keith Adams 22

Despite being well into the autumn of his life, Keith Adams had made it until the beginning of 2012 without setting foot in the USA. However, the past couple of […]

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Events

Events : Vauxhall Heritage open its doors to classics

17 March 2012 Keith Adams 7

Vauxhall is again supporting this year’s annual classic car celebration and will open its Heritage Centre to mark ‘Drive it Day’. The doors will open between 10am and 4pm on […]

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News : MINI-Metro name set to return?

16 March 2012 Keith Adams 66

Keith Adams The strangely-named MINI Paceman concept – unveiled last year – represents another possible niche for the company to enter. A sporting coupe variant of the existing Countryman looks […]

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News : Land Rover success feeds recruitment

16 March 2012 Keith Adams 16

Jaguar Land Rover is creating another 1000 new jobs at its Halewood Operations manufacturing facility, near Liverpool in the UK. The new positions, which will support the on-going significant demand […]

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By Clifford Webb – National union officials and shop stewards representing all 86,000 BL Cars’ manual workers yesterday called for an official strike beginning on April 8, the day the management intends to impose its [...]

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