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Month: October 2014

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News : Wombling free… BRMs to reunite at the NEC Classic Motor Show

31 October 2014 Keith Adams 3

David Morgan The online community for owners and fans of the Rover 200 BRM, theBRM.co.uk, has announced that it will be bringing together four of the original six WOM-registered Rover 200 […]

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News Analysis : The Phoenix that laid the golden egg?

31 October 2014 Keith Adams 50

Graham Eason The author is a long-standing British car enthusiast and the owner of Great Escape Classic Car Hire. Following reports in the news earlier this week about the ‘Phoenix Four’ receiving […]

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News : HM The Queen opens Jaguar Land Rover’s new Engine Manufacturing Centre

30 October 2014 Mike Humble 10

Jaguar Land Rover today marked a seminal moment in its history with the official opening of its new Engine Manufacturing Centre by HM the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. […]

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News : DVLA rakes in over £38 million in postal ‘fines’, says FOI report

29 October 2014 Craig Cheetham 24

Craig Cheetham A Freedom of Information request to the DVLA after they tried to prosecute AROnline’s Editor for failing to notify a change of vehicle keeper reveals that the department has […]

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News : MGB, Minis, Marina and Metro – things to make you go mmmm… at Anglia Car Auctions

28 October 2014 Craig Cheetham 18

Craig Cheetham I always ogle the Anglia Car Auctions catalogue with interest when it pops into my email inbox as, unlike other classic car sales, they tend to have a […]

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Blog : Happy birthday – Roadrunner reaches 30!

28 October 2014 Mike Humble 4

Continuing the birthday celebrations for our beloved vehicles like the Rover 200 and Montego that both have milestone anniversaries, Mike Humble raises a glass for one of Leyland Trucks success […]

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Sales Talk : Dealers or stealers – who’s to blame?

28 October 2014 Mike Humble 10

Mike Humble Sharks, wide-boys and order takers… call them what you want but a sales person is there for good reasons. To represent the brand, advise the customer accordingly and […]

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eBay Find of the Week : 14k Rover 600

24 October 2014 Craig Cheetham 30

Craig Cheetham Okay, so £2,000 sounds like a lot for a Rover 600 – but then there can’t be many left in this kind of condition. Indeed, if I had […]

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Car of the Month : October 2014 – Alan Crome’s Triumph Dolomite

22 October 2014 Craig Cheetham 28

Craig Cheetham It’s back! After a four-year absence and largely down to popular demand, AROnline is pleased to announce the return of the Car of the Month feature – starting this […]

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Technician’s Update : A pre-delivery disaster…

22 October 2014 Mike Humble 11

Mike Humble The latest SMMT figures show there was a record September in 2014, as the economy pulls itself out of the doldrums. All of which got me thinking about […]

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Essay : Devil’s Advocate – the MG ZT 260 and Rover 75 V8

16 October 2014 Craig Cheetham 47

Craig Cheetham Introducing the first in a new series, AROnline’s Editor takes a sideways look at some of the cars we love to love and asks if they were, indeed, […]

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Essay : Honda and Rover – what if?

16 October 2014 Mike Humble 63

Mike Humble I’ve just spent a little time smoking around in a pair of British-built Honda’s for my own site – a Civic 1.8 petrol and a diesel CR-V. Both […]

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Our Cars : Meet the Fleet No.5 – Rover 800 Vitesse

14 October 2014 Craig Cheetham 30

Craig Cheetham Most kids my age used to fantasise about Ferrari Testarossas or Lamborghini Countachs, those Athena poster icons that pretty much summed up the late ’80s and early ’90s. […]

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News : Paris Motor Show – AROnline style…

14 October 2014 Keith Adams 20

Andrew Elphick Armed with our Eurostar billet AROnline’s continental correspondent, Andrew Elphick, breaches the main gate at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles armed with just €14  and a ballpoint pen… […]

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Blog : Happiness is Rover SD3 shaped

12 October 2014 Keith Adams 32

Keith Adams As the relative hoopla surrounding the quarter century racked up by the Rover R8 (200/400) this week dies down, I feel that it’s down to me to restore […]

AROnline

Blog : AROnline, what would you like to see?

7 October 2014 Craig Cheetham 77

Craig Cheetham Okay… So, by the very nature of this site, we spend a lot of time looking into the past. And so we should, because among the many great […]

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Blog: Getting to know the Avantime

7 October 2014 Keith Adams 0

Had my first ‘proper’ drive in the Avantime today, and came away mildly impressed. You wouldn’t normally associate the car with my favourite local road, and haunt of evo photographers, […]

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Our Cars : Mike’s Rover 214 GSi – Tried and tested

6 October 2014 Mike Humble 7

Mike Humble Well, after the Gaydon celebration of the Rover 200, there has not been much to report on the old girl lately. Work has been busy and some car […]

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Blog: Welcome to the new Avantime

6 October 2014 Keith Adams 0

The fact that Classic Car Weekly ran a buying guide for the Avantime has no bearing on my decision to buy one of these bonkers millennial ‘coupes’ to serve as my […]

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Raise a glass to : the MG Maestro 2.0 EFi

3 October 2014 Mike Humble 39

Never one to pass up a celebration, David Morgan raises a glass to 30 years of the MG Maestro EFi/2.0i and tells us why the appeal of this MG is […]

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