Month: January 2013

Historics of Brooklands is offering one of the more unlikely competitors in the 1970 World Cup Rally, an Austin Maxi. The car, which goes on sale on 9 March in […]

Christopher A Sawyer Another Detroit show come and gone, but one thought remains rattling around in my head: what about Jaguar? Despite what everyone might believe, even though it was […]

On the eve of the end of UK Transit production, James Godwin tells the story of the design process at Ford’s Dunton facility in Essex. It was an interesting process […]

Mike Humble In a previous muttering, I explained how ‘messers’ are the most universally loathed folk in the motor trade. Too often I hear people bemoaning about the shark infested […]

John Slavin, Honest John MINI has announced its latest London inspired model, called the Clubman Bond Street. Named after the famous and busy London shopping street, it’s to go on […]

Millions of motorists agree that taking a road trip is one of the most liberating and exciting ways to travel. Jack Kerouac even went as far as to proclaim that […]

Mike Humble Well, that’s it folks, after just over one year of enjoyable ownership, the project Rover 75 has moved on to pastures new and from leafy Sussex to deepest Essex. The proud […]

Between 1975 and 1995, the Vauxhall Cavalier was one of the UK’s favourite family cars. Watch three generations of TV advertising to see just how the Cavalier moved with the […]

Thirty years ago, British Leyland was on the cusp of launching its most important car in a decade – the Austin Maestro. And the company management was already beginning the […]

Austin Allegro Series 3 brochure – Publication number 3331, September 1979.

Jaguar Land Rover has returned to health in the four years since it was bought by Tata Motors, but now comes the hard part for the luxury British automaker: proving […]

Every car company is allowed at least one or two failures, but for the unfortunate Indian car company Sipani this would prove to be the fate of every model they […]

Ben Richards has MG running through his veins. He’s also a very talented design graduate who decided it was time to design a new one of his own. Here’s his story, […]

MG Motor UK’s parent company, SAIC Motor, has enjoyed a record year of production, with 4.49 million vehicles sold in 2012. The company is now China’s largest car company, and […]

Car manufacturing and export figures for 2012 have been released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) have been released, and it’s been a bumper year, with records […]

MINI and Jaguar Land Rover are looking for apprentices to work a their Oxford and Birmingham factories. MINI needs 32 new recruits to take up places at the Oxford Plant […]

Keith Adams Seems silly doesn’t it. I’ve had this little old Saab 900 T16S for seven years, and as yet, have not even come close to selling it. For a […]

Mike Humble Well, after over one year of thoroughly enjoyable ownership, the 75 is to be moved on to – hopefully – someone who will continue to pour in the love […]

Jaguar Land Rover has announced the creation of 800 at its Solihull factory. The company’s growth in production numbers is a reflection of booming global sales, and the new jobs […]

Honda is preparing to downsize the workforce at its Swindon factory by 800, citing poor demand for its British-built models in Europe. This is the first bad news to affect […]