Month: April 2015

Craig Cheetham As is always the way, I had no intention of buying another car. Indeed, in recent times, I’ve been trying to downsize the fleet to more manageable levels, […]

Craig Cheetham A few months back, our Ebay Find of the Week was a 2000 W-reg Rover 75. Ever since then, I’ve had a nagging desire to go out and […]

Craig Cheetham About 12 months ago, I was giving my previously-owned MG ZS 180 a lick of wax outside the house when a cruel passer-by, with nothing but pre-conceived ideas […]

Craig Cheetham Pride of Longbridge isn’t a car rally, or certainly not in the conventional sense. It does what car rallies do, but it also does much, much more than […]

Jack Yan There has been a lot of ongoing press about Landwind’s copy of the Range Rover Evoque, one of my favourite Sloane Ranger SUVs. There’s no way Landwind would […]

Words: Clive Goldthorp Photographs: A. E. Wilcox and Son Limited and Geoff Cottle Any AROnline readers who also happened to be readers of the Daily Telegraph back in the dark […]

Keith Moody, HonestJohn Classics MG enthusiasts have set a new world record for the largest parade of cars made by the brand. A total of 144 MGs gathered at the Rockingham […]

Ten years ago today, an estimated 600 Birmingham-built cars made an important pilgrimage to Longbridge. They were there in order to support MG Rover’s workers and their families, whose futures were cast into uncertainty […]

Our man Mike Humble talks to former Phoenix Retail salesman Mark Newton about his experiences at the coal face selling new MG Rover cars immediately prior to that fateful day in April 2005. Tell […]

Four members of the Euro Rover Owners Club will be highlighting their pride in Longbridge-built cars by taking part in their very own 24-hour Round Britain Driving Challenge to raise funds for charity. […]

A new Land Rover Heritage division will be launched at the Techno Classica show in Essen, Germany, this week. Running alongside the recently established Jaguar Heritage division, Land Rover Heritage will offer original […]

Richard Truett The very last auto industry event MG Rover (MGR) took part in came on 12 April 2005 in Detroit. Alan Warburton, Iain Fleming, James Scott and Neil Butler […]

This year’s Pride of Longbridge event takes place this coming Saturday, 18 April 2015, and AROnline will be there to cover it. This year’s event promises to be especially poignant, as […]

Vehicle production at Longbridge may no longer exist as we knew it, but there is still a car assembly presence at the former MG Rover site, with CKD MG models […]

Car production has returned to the former Rover plant in Solihull, West Midlands, with the first new Jaguar XE being built at the facility. The site has built only Land […]

David Morgan regularly sends in fascinating, well-researched historical features, often focusing on key models and moment in BL/A-R/Rover Group history. What follows is an excellent dissection of events leading up […]

Not a lot of pictures of the R40’s development programme have surfaced; mainly because Richard Woolley’s 1993 design was considered so successful, it didn’t change between the time the clay […]

For the latest instalment in our MGR@10 Month coverage, Craig Cheetham catches up with MG Rover’s former Product PR Manager (among other things), Kevin Jones. Kevin, who is now Head of Communications […]

Of all the people intimately involved in MG Rover’s fall into administration and the devastating aftermath in the community, Gemma Cartwright MBE is probably the most qualified to speak about […]

Ten years on, one of MG Rover’s talented engineering team, Nic Fasci, tells AROnline how he was affected by the announcement that his employer had been put into administration and […]

Keith Adams recalls the fateful day, 10 years ago, that MG Rover went into administration.  ‘It’s over. They’ve called in the receivers.’ A simple text message from my friend […]