Month: September 2017

Ever wanted a full breakdown of BMC>MGR production figures, but didn’t know where to go? Fear not – AROnline has all the numbers you’ll ever need. […]

Earlier Montegos… you can shove ’em. When I say earlier, I mean anything prior to the 1989 model year. Once the revised cars came along, the Montego became a dependable […]

The best laid plans of mice and men, eh? They never pan out as expected. Friends of ours were travelling to Canada for a fortnight flying from Gatwick so, rather […]

Think your small SUV is a new thing? Think again. Ford’s styling house Ghia came up with the Tuareg, a Fiesta-based beauty, in 1979. […]

The most powerful version of the rear-wheel-drive MG ZT spent a long time in development – and, in the end, it didn’t make it into production, as time ran out […]

Your chance to wallow in passenger transport nostalgia takes place on Sunday 17 September at Donington Park with the advent of the 45th Showbus rally. So far as bus events and rallies matter, […]

The MINI John Cooper Works GP Concept made its public debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show alongside the Electric Concept. There hasn’t been a Works GP version of the F56-generation […]

In 1960, BMC entered into a collaboration with Italian component and scooter manufacturer Innocenti, which saw the latter company produce BMC/BL-based models in Italy for the next 15 years. […]

I feel quite guilty about not getting something posted a bit sooner, but time has been against me. So here we have another Rover 200 (R8) model within our midst, […]

The BCVM is housed in a part of the former Leyland Motors factory in King Street. It’s had some turbulent times over the past couple of decades but, thanks to […]

Back in March, I blogged that there was a real danger of AROnline going French. The fact that there were a pair of CXs on the books, and I’d arranged to […]

In 1959, Innocenti signed a deal with BMC that would see it become a car manufacturer for the first time. That would see it building the Austin A40 for local consumption. By 1963, more than 40,000 A40s had rolled off the line in Milan, and as Keith Adams explains, this one had something of a secret… […]