Opinion

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 […]

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 […]

Fifty unexceptional cars graced the lawns of Claydon House for the sixth annual Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional. Highlights of once-common-but-now-rare family cars included a 1987 Rover 820E, thought to […]

Kudos to Lotus for finally launching a new car after what feels like decades of turmoil. Following on from endless (and still brilliant) servings of Elise- and Evora-based remixes, and […]

Remember those prototype MGs and Rovers that looked like they were about to be confined to oblivion? Remember the kerfuffle about how they were going to be scrapped, and never […]

It’s been a couple of days since questions of the future fate of the MG Rover prototypes, previously squirrelled away at the Longbridge Roundhouse, started to light up our previously-quiet […]

Keith Adams Chris Cowin, the author of British Leyland: Chronicle of a car crash and Export Drive: BMC and British Leyland Cars in Europe and the world, has added a third title to […]

For those that remember it, 1982 was the year of the Falklands War, when Britons proudly flew the flag in support of their armed forces engaged in combat in the […]

In 2006, Keith Adams and Mike Duff drove to Chernobyl in a £100 Lada Riva, to mark the 20th anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe that changed the course of history. […]

Rather like Craig Logan as the third member of pop group Bros, the Rover 800 Vitesse Sport has become something of a forgotten member of the high performance executive car […]

There I was, in my garage, tidying up the myriad of car books and magazines that I currently have in my life, and wondering why on earth I’ve hoarded so […]

Ian Nicholls crunches numbers to show you just how successful the Mini and BMC 1100/1300 ranges were for their maker. It’s interesting to see how they literally ruled the world […]

In February 1969, Roy Haynes went public about his decision to leave BLMC. It followed the decision to downscale design operations based at Pressed Steel Fisher in Oxford, and centralise […]

The news that Honda is to close its Swindon factory and that Nissan isn’t bringing production of the X-Trail SUV to the UK isn’t surprising. It’s as predictable as it is sad. […]

Keith Adams on why things could have been so different for BMC’s swansong executive car… The Austin 3 Litre… We’ve all got opinions on this car but, let’s be honest, most […]

While browsing the EPG on my Sky box I stumbled across a station called Forces TV just after 9.00pm. To my delight, the station was re-running old episodes on a […]

A constant conversation I end up having in my day job at Parkers, is naming new cars, and how we treat their URLs online. It’s vitally important to get things […]

The car Back in 2011, I visited a fair-sized barn in North Yorkshire full of Maestros, Montegos and the odd Metro. I’m a former Maestro owner, admirer and salesman, so it was […]

Rover’s ill-fated 1990s replacement for the popular mid-liner, the R8… and why it didn’t hit the spot. Alejandro Cáceres explains how, with a few little design touches, it could have […]

Much has already been written about the history of the Autobiography nameplate here on AROnline and how it has helped take the price and exclusivity of Range Rovers ever further […]

It’s a question that many people asked throughout the mid-to-late 1970s, and yet we’ve never really looked too deeply into. The story of BMC, BL and Rover is littered with […]