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Month: March 2015

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Car of the Month : March 2015 – Adrian Clark’s MG6 S

9 March 2015 Craig Cheetham 40

Marmite, personified by a car. That will be the MG6 then… I’m well aware that the car has its detractors, but I’d wanted one since I went along to a VIP […]

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eBay Find of the Week : Rover 45 with less than 2k miles on the clock…

9 March 2015 Craig Cheetham 15

Craig Cheetham Thanks to AROnline reader Matthew Cooper for finding this one… The better part of £2,600 might seem like quite a lot of cash for a 12-year old Rover […]

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Technician’s Update : Tiger Tiger in the night, there’s a problem with your lights

8 March 2015 Mike Humble 19

Mike Humble When I was just a slip of a young man, I got completely fed up with working on cars in a dealership Monday to Friday 8.30 to 5.30 […]

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Our Cars : Mike’s Rover 75 – how I hate shoe shopping!

7 March 2015 Mike Humble 22

Mike Humble What is it with later Rovers and their damn handbrakes? The 6/800 series had notoriously poor handbrakes which sometimes barely stopped them rolling away on a billiard-table smooth and level road […]

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News : XJ-S Cabrio mystery

5 March 2015 Craig Cheetham 12

Craig Cheetham Can anyone solve the mystery behind this XJ-S Cabriolet, brought to our attention by AROnline reader Martin Benham? The car has belonged to a friend of Martin’s for […]

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Geneva Motor Show 2015 : Bentley previews future two-seater sports model

3 March 2015 Clive Goldthorp 5

John Slavin, Honest John.co.uk Bentley has revealed a two-seater concept sports model at the Geneva Motor Show today. The low-slung, muscular-looking model, called the EXP 10 Speed 6, is finished […]

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Geneva Motor Show 2015 : Aston Martin shows shock electric DBX Concept

3 March 2015 Clive Goldthorp 5

Mark Nichol, Honest John.co.uk Aston Martin has hit the Geneva Motor Show with an electric car that will prove one of the day’s biggest surprises: the DBX Concept. In Aston’s […]

AROnline

News Analysis : Geneva Update – BMW and Toyota to co-develop a new MINI Minor and Lexus-badged iQ successor?

3 March 2015 Clive Goldthorp 49

Clive Goldthorp The BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) already have a wide-ranging cooperation agreement which was signed back in January, 2013 and extends to the joint development of […]

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News : Range Rover Evoque Convertible to go on sale in 2016

3 March 2015 Clive Goldthorp 6

Land Rover has confirmed that the world’s first premium compact SUV convertible will go on sale in 2016 by releasing a unique underground testing film. Forty metres below the streets […]

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News: Volkswagen Passat is Car of The Year. Wow.

2 March 2015 Keith Adams 0

A panel of 58 members, representing 22 European countries, reverted to conservatism by crowning the Volkswagen Passat B8 as the the 2015 Car of the Year. The victory for what must be […]

Opinion

Blog : Hoping to move from a Lancia to a Citroen

1 March 2015 Keith Adams 2

Most people would think that I’d be mad for considering selling my lovely 1988 Lancia Delta HF Integrale, especially as they are so amazingly good to drive and are super-cool […]

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Blog : My day on MG Rover’s Motor Show stand

1 March 2015 Keith Adams 4

Going through some of my old photos, I found these interesting shots. They were taken on MG Rover’s stand at the NEC on 27 May 2004, and represent the great […]

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