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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 […]
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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 […]
Chrysler’s great white hope in the executive sector was the C9 project. However, events overtook its development, and Peugeot ended up finishing the job by launching the Talbot Tagora. And […]
The heart of the Simca 1000 lay in Italy, but it was the French that built it – and proved that a small, rear-engned didn’t necessarily have to have a Renault badge on its nose to sell in its millions. […]
Chris Cowin remembers an Austin Maestro with a specification the Brits couldn’t buy – not at first anyway. Did Austin Rover Italia hit on the winning formula before their mothership […]
The Triumph TR7 was the last of a great sports car line – although few would have believed it to be, when designing this important car back in the optimistic […]
Rover Special Products was one busy department during the early 1990s, and proof positive is Project Tarka, a Montego Lifestyle SUV from the MGA design consultancy. Keith Adams shares previously […]
September 2003 saw the Rover 800 Coupé make a welcome return as Car of the Month. Owner Keith Adams returned from a trip to the Nürburgring enthusing about this oft-misunderstood […]
Chris Cowin turns his attention to an oft-forgotten example of base model brilliance, the Jaguar XJ6 2.8 Standard. You won’t have found many at the dealers, as they would want […]
In 1969, Austin Morris investigated ways to increase the appeal of the slow-selling Austin 3 Litre. This Wolseley 3 Litre prototype, as photographed at the Longbridge Elephant House in 1967, […]
Keith Adams on the ADO22, a little-known project to update and refresh the BMC 1100/1300 for the 1970s. Sadly, it didn’t make the cut, and needed to make way for […]
The original targa-topped Triumph Bullet and its fastback Lynx cousin were originally conceived to replace the GT6 and TR6 – it was a long-running project. However, internal post-BLMC merger politics […]
The Rover V8 engine is a magnificent creation – and one that’s found its way under all manner of sports cars. Here, we’re pitting two similarly powered sporting roadsters, the […]
Intended to be the cornerstone of Rover’s late-1990s growth, the 400 hatchback and saloon were vitally important new cars – not least because they were to replace the best-selling 1989 […]
The Rover 200 (R3) started out as a Metro replacement, but was soon marketed into something far more grandiose. […]
Was the Triumph Broadside one of the biggest missed opportunities of the British Leyland era? It was designed to take the best bits of the TR7 it was based on, […]
Project C9 was instigated in 1976, and like the Alpine and Horizon before it, was engineered in France and styled in the UK. The car that emerged was the first […]
Celebrated as one of BMC’s greatest white elephants, the Austin 3 Litre emerged the way it did because circumstance was not on its side. The Austin 3 Litre development story […]
The Leyland P82 would have supplemented the P76 and Force 7, and would have provided an up-to-date replacement for the Leyland Marina. Industry expert Jack Yan fills in the blanks […]
Leyland ADO74 – the first attempt by British Leyland at replacing the Mini never saw the light of day. It was one project, but had many faces: a wide variety […]
In 1985, we were treated to a pedestrian-friendly Metro – somewhat ahead of its time, we feel… PSC1: Snub-nosed Metro The Pedestrian Safety Car One (PSC1) had a re-designed nose, […]
The Triumph Lynx was a victim of not only a lack of funds, but also the ongoing battle between Michael Edwardes and the Trade Unions. The car had promise – […]
The 116-inch Discovery is another example of a rare and interesting Land Rover conversion. Here’s the full story as told by noted author and historian, James Taylor. Several of a […]
Although the BMC 1100/1300 was never built in Denmark, it was first introduced there within weeks of the UK launch badged as the Morris Marina. It remained available in one […]
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