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Month: July 2013

Opinion

Blog : Forty years old and still brilliant

10 July 2013 Keith Adams 55

Keith Adams While wandering around Gaydon at the weekend and stumbling across this pretty Triumph Dolomite Sprint in the car park, it occurred to me that this superb compact sports […]

Buses

The Bus Section : Leyland Bus – 20 years since closure

10 July 2013 Mike Humble 47

Mike Humble While ploughing through my extensive archive of all things bus and coach just now, I was staggered to notice that, 20 years ago this month, in July 1993 […]

Book reviews

Book review : Mini Cooper, James Ruppert

9 July 2013 Keith Adams 1

Keith Adams reviews My Mini Cooper – Its Part in My Breakdown, by James Ruppert Regular readers will need no introduction to the works of James Ruppert. He’s becoming a […]

Jaguar Land Rover

Video : Range Rover Sport takes on Spitfire

8 July 2013 Keith Adams 7

John Slavin The latest Range Rover has won plenty if praise from the motoring press, AROnline included. Indeed, Land Rover is so proud of its creation that it decided that […]

Triumph SD2
Opinion

Blog : Reunited with SD2… and it feels no better

8 July 2013 Keith Adams 45

Keith Adams It was funny seeing the Triumph SD2 in the metal again after all these years, rather a case of ‘hello again old friend’. Back in the early days of […]

Events

Events : Report – BMC and Leyland Show, Gaydon

7 July 2013 Keith Adams 13

Keith Adams This was an interesting one… The Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon is home to some of the most interesting prototypes in the history of British Leyland, Rover and BMC […]

AROnline

Events : Preview – AROnline visit to York National Railway Museum

7 July 2013 Mike Humble 21

Mike Humble Sometimes it’s good to take a breather from the crazy world of cars. This month marks the 75th Anniversary of the record breaking speed run of Sir Nigel […]

AROnline

Our Cars : Mike’s Citroen Xantia

5 July 2013 Mike Humble 8

Mike Humble The bangernomic bug bites again First things first, the Xantia is back in the fold – the car’s so good I bought it twice. Having passed it on to […]

MINI First

Our Cars : MINI First – reliably reliable

5 July 2013 Keith Adams 33

Keith Adams There’s been lots of MINI talk in these pages over the past couple of years. Maybe longer – but it seems that you, my wonderful readership, have lots […]

Book reviews

Book review : Brick by Brick, Martyn Nutland

5 July 2013 Keith Adams 15

Robert Leitch reviews Brick by Brick – The biography of the man who really made the Mini by Martyn Nutland In 1975, the humorist Alan Coren published a collection of […]

Richard's Triumph Stag

Our Cars : Richard Truett’s Triumph Stag – Part 2

4 July 2013 Keith Adams 7

I’m having trouble focusing on work. There’s been little interest in maintaining the homestead – you know, cutting the grass, putting out the trash, washing the dishes, paying attention to […]

Events

Events : Report – The Rover Diamond Jubilee Rally

4 July 2013 Keith Adams 2

Words and photography: David Morgan Picture: John Divall Rover Jubilee Rally is a Roaring Success One of the largest gatherings of classic and modern Rover cars descended on Coughton Court, […]

Nissan

News : New Nissan Note to be built in the UK

4 July 2013 Keith Adams 16

Nissan, the UK’s largest car manufacturer, has confirmed that its latest B-segment challenger, the new Note, will be built in the UK at its Sunderland factory in Washington. Like the […]

Wanted to love the Rover 620Si, but I think it was too good for me...
Opinion

Blog : Bangernomics – what is a boy to do?

4 July 2013 Keith Adams 34

Keith Adams Regular readers will know that we do love to preach at the altar of the great god of Bangernomics here at AROnline. For years, I’ve enjoyed an interesting […]

MG Motor UK

News : MG6 prices tumble with ‘no VAT’ deals

4 July 2013 Keith Adams 38

MG Motor UK might be preparing for the arrival of the new MG3, but slow sales of the MG6 range are still a concern for the company’s 30 UK dealers. […]

Facts and figures

Blog : Record breaking steam speed run remembered

4 July 2013 Mike Humble 6

Mike Humble Well, as I am sure many of you will know, our very own British Leyland and – latterly – Leyland Bus Limited, were once heavily involved in rail […]

Advertorial

Advertorial : How the UK became the whiplash capital of the world

3 July 2013 Keith Adams 1

Whiplash injuries can be very painful and unpleasant for the sufferer, leading to neck pain and stiffness. The effects are usually short-term but the most severe cases can result in […]

AROnline

News : MINI lifts the curtain on new model – a bit

3 July 2013 Alexander Boucke 29

Our readers will probably have seen the – rather ungainly – pictures of the next MINI popping up all over the Internet. Being shot from a long distance during an […]

Drive Story

Drive Story : Range Rover Sport V8 Supercharged

1 July 2013 Keith Adams 9

Getting to know Wales… the easy way The first gasp happened in the mountains on the climb out of Sennybridge, a small town located in the Brecon Beacons. A ragged […]

AROnline News

News : LTI announces production restart

1 July 2013 Keith Adams 11

Keith Adams Full-scale production of TX4 black cabs at The London Taxi Company’s factory in Coventry is set to restart in September. Vice President of UK Operations Peter Johansen (above) […]

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