Month: March 2021

The Ford Capri Mk1 underwent a remarkably short development programme, as these images clearly show. However, more than that, the company knew what it wanted from the final product – […]

Seems like a good time to be buying if you’re after launch-spec cars. Following on from the eBay sale of a 1987 Rover 825i which piqued my interest, this rather […]

The optimism of Austin Rover marketing in 1984/5 is in stark contrast to what’s left of the company now… AROnline Contributor Simon Weakley was a Marketing Trainee at ARG in […]

Welcome to Trafalgar Square London, and what is regarded as being one of the most iconic and recognisable locations in the city. This photograph typifies all of those shots we […]

This fascinating, wonderful and rare beast has just popped up on my eBay feed, and I find myself doing some man maths in order to add it to my collection […]

For anyone who’s been vaguely following the MG story here in the UK, it’s been interesting to see parent company SAIC reinvent its most historic brand as an electric car […]

It’s 4 May 1990 and we’re standing on the central reservation of Lurgan High Street admiring a very typical British townscape. Although some of the shop names aren’t instantly familiar, […]

I’m beginning to think that my lengthy spell of Compulsive Heap Purchasing Disorder (CHPD) is incurable. I’m not too unhappy about it for 95% of the time – it’s an […]

There’s a lot of talk about premium small cars these days, but we’ve been here before. The Austin 1300 GT and Triumph 1300 TC are two that were playing the […]

In Australia, the Leyland P76 was billed as ‘Anything but average.’ Unfortunately (and unjustifiably so), it also turned out to be anything but successful. Richard Gunn samples Leyland’s legendary leviathan […]

Following his excellent series The Great Motor Men, AROnline Contributor Martyn Kelham has produced this series on the great motoring women. In the first part, he the discusses turn-of-the-20th Century […]

MG Motor has announced the plug-in hybrid version of the HS for the Australian and New Zealand markets, in a live-streamed launch on 2 March. The HS plug-in hybrid is […]

In 1974, Leyland’s Italian subsidiary Innocenti introduced a rebodied, three-door hatchback Mini, styled by Bertone. However, within a year of its launch, BLMC went bankrupt, the company was sold to […]

Keith Adams tells the full story of the ill-fated MG Rover RDX60 programme and explains how Longbridge tried to create a new medium-sized car from the underpinnings of the Rover […]

Here’s an interesting one recently brought to my attention. AROnline Contributor David Harvey got in touch to remind us that it wasn’t just BMC that had missed the boat to replace […]

Mark McGrady is MG Rover through-and-through and has owned an enviable collection of some of the marque’s finest cars. This Rover 75 Tourer is very special, and a real credit […]