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Month: April 2015

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News : Euro Rover Owners Club complete Round Britain Challenge

30 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 2

Four members of the Euro Rover Owners Club have completed their marathon Round Britain Driving Challenge in just over 23 hours, despite part of their planned route being closed and […]

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Car of the Month : April 2015 – Marc Stillebroer’s Rover 827 Vitesse

28 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 32

Admittedly, it’s a little late in the month for a Car of the Month, but that’s because AROnline dedicated most of April to remembering the events of 10 years ago. […]

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Our Cars : Craig’s ‘new’ Rover 214Si

28 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 16

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, […]

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Our Cars : Meet the £300 Rover 75…

27 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 24

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : Zed or dead? How a miraculous marketing strategy kept MG Rover on life support

24 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 40

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : Report – Pride of Longbridge 2015

22 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 19

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 […]

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Blog : Did Jaguar Land Rover forget to file the Range Rover Evoque’s Chinese patent in time?

21 April 2015 Jack Yan 18

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : A Dealer’s Tale – Jon and Tim Wilcox of A. E. Wilcox and Son

17 April 2015 Clive Goldthorp 19

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 […]

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News : MG fans set new world record

16 April 2015 admin 5

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : A look back at the Save MG Rover Rally in 2005

16 April 2015 Keith Adams 11

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : A Salesman’s perspective…

15 April 2015 Mike Humble 9

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 […]

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News : Euro Rover Round Britain Driving Challenge

14 April 2015 admin 4

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. […]

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News : Land Rover launches new Heritage division

14 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 9

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : The demise of MG Rover – an American view

14 April 2015 admin 18

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : Preview – Pride of Longbridge 2015

13 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 16

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : 10 years on, the latest from Longbridge

13 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 15

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 […]

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News : Car production returns to Solihull with new Jaguar XE

13 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 53

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : The Battle for Survival

13 April 2015 David Morgan 18

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 […]

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Concepts and prototypes

Concepts and prototypes : Rover 75

11 April 2015 Keith Adams 25

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : Interview with MG Rover Product PR Manager, Kevin Jones

10 April 2015 Craig Cheetham 20

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : The Campaigner’s view

10 April 2015 Keith Adams 6

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : The Test and Development Engineer’s view

8 April 2015 admin 7

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 […]

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MGR@10 Month : Keith Adams through the looking glass…

8 April 2015 Keith Adams 23

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 […]

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