Austin Rover Motorsport
Video : Austin Rover Rallysprint 1983
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 […]
Month: August 2019
Mini
Concepts and prototypes : Rover Minki 1 and 2 (1992-1995)
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
The cars : DeLorean DMC-12 development story
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 […]
Mini
Blog : Happy birthday Mini!
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
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
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 […]
Clubman
The cars : Mini Clubman development story
The Clubman was developed through BMC’s desire to expand the Mini concept, without spending too much money. It started out as a hatchback proposal penned by Roy Haynes, and then developed into something rather less useful. […]
Development story
The cars : Mini Cooper development story
It’s the 60th Anniversary of the Mini’s launch in 1959. A good time, then, for Ian Nicholls to chart the origins and production history of this car in what is […]
Opinion
Opinion : The social history of the Mini
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 […]
Austin Maxi (ADO14)
Opinion : What happened to Issigonis’ Mini world? Part Three – The Maxi Factor
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 […]
Opinion
News : BMH celebrates Mini 60th at Goodwood
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
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
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)
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 […]
Concepts and prototypes
Concepts and prototypes : IAD TRX (1980)
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
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 […]