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Month: August 2019

Pentti Arikkala at the wheel of a Rover SD1 at the Austin Rover Rallysprint 1983
Austin Rover Motorsport

Video : Austin Rover Rallysprint 1983

31 August 2019 Keith Adams 14

Keith Adams recalls the excellent Austin Rover Rallysprint 1983, which pitted the cream of Grand Prix drivers against the top rally drivers of the day to see who came out […]

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Mini

Concepts and prototypes : Rover Minki 1 and 2 (1992-1995)

31 August 2019 Keith Adams 12

AROnline is committed to telling the complete history of BMC>MGR – especially by sourcing original accounts from those on the ground, who can provide readers with the definitive inside view […]

DeLorean DMC-12 Turbo rendering by Ital Design in 1981
DeLorean DMC-12

The cars : DeLorean DMC-12 development story

31 August 2019 Keith Adams 39

Keith Adams There are plenty of cars that have achieved notoriety during their lifetimes – one only has to look at the Boulevard of Broken Dreams that is the British […]

Happy birthday Mini
Mini

Blog : Happy birthday Mini!

26 August 2019 Keith Adams 26

Happy birthday Mini! On 26 August 1959, motoring history was made. Exactly 60 years ago, the first Mini was launched to the public and its creator, Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine […]

Alec Issigonis

The cars : Mini (ADO15) development story – Part One

25 August 2019 Keith Adams 38

The Mini is 60 years old this week. The AROnline development story tells the tale of how this small car changed the way we looked at economy cars almost overnight. […]

Development story

The cars : Mini (ADO15) development story – Part Two

25 August 2019 Keith Adams 15

It changed the way we looked at small cars almost overnight, and sent the Designers scurrying back to the drawing boards – the Mini was little short of a major […]

Twiggy with Mini
Opinion

Opinion : The social history of the Mini

18 August 2019 Ian Nicholls 14

The automotive media loves a major anniversary, it gives it an excuse to trot out special articles on the product in question and 2019 is no exception – the BMC […]

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Opinion : What happened to Issigonis’ Mini world? Part Three – The Maxi Factor

17 August 2019 Ian Nicholls 31

During the recent National Metro and Mini Show at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon I happened to stumble across the last Austin Maxi built, assembled at Cowley in July […]

mk1 mini bodyshell
Opinion

News : BMH celebrates Mini 60th at Goodwood

17 August 2019 Keith Adams 1

Courtesy of the thousands of replacement bodyshells and individual panels it has manufactured over the last 40 years, British Motor Heritage (BMH) has arguably done more than any other company […]

Archive

Archive : Getting the most out of the Mini in 1969

15 August 2019 Keith Adams 0

Here’s another in AROnline’s series of articles featuring archive images to mark the 60th birthday of the Mini. The 1960s may have been The Beatles’ decade, but it was also the Mini […]

Development story

The cars : Ford Mondeo development story

7 August 2019 Andrew Elphick 140

The Mondeo has eased past its quarter century, meaning it should have gained access to the classic car world. To mark the occasion, Andrew Elphick recounts the story of its […]

Chrysler/Talbot Alpine and Solara (C6)

Concepts and prototypes : Chrysler Alpine RSV (1974-1976)

4 August 2019 Keith Adams 3

Producing safety concepts was extremely fashionable during the 1970s – Calspan and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) produced the Chrysler Alpine RSV. This was a very American take […]

International Automotive Design unveiled its first concept car at the NEC motor show in 1980. It was a reskin of the Triumph TR7, and was meant to showcase the company's design consultancy business.
Concepts and prototypes

Concepts and prototypes : IAD TRX (1980)

4 August 2019 Keith Adams 10

Worthing-based International Automotive Developments (IAD) decided to raise its profile with a TR7 facelift project called the IAD TRX… The design consultancy came up with was a very 1980s incarnation […]

Archive

Archive : The day Norman Wisdom tested for BMC

2 August 2019 Ian Nicholls 2

AROnline is, as previously indicated, using the excuse that 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the Mini to publish images which cannot be used elsewhere on the site. Our Mini development […]

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