Opinion

To celebrate 50 years of the Range Rover, Land Rover gathered 50 of the most important, iconic and interesting models in its history and paraded them around the Goodwood racing […]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, it can’t have escaped your notice that the 40th birthday of the Austin Metro is now upon us. […]

You know, I honestly refuse to accept the fact that our dear friend the Austin Metro is 40 years young. It’s only yesterday since the TV commercials depicted the likes […]

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 […]

To my dear readers, it’s probably worth explaining why there’s been little in the way of updating and activity on here over the past few days. A couple of weeks […]

If you didn’t get the chance to listen to Radio 4’s The Reunion last Sunday, you missed a treat. The show focused on the collapse of British Leyland and brought […]

The profitability of car manufacturing in the UK has always been a challenge for carmakers. We explore this age-old problem, examining contemporary figures aided by a healthy dose of hindsight. […]

June 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of one of the most iconic British cars ever made, the Range Rover. Along with the Issigonis Mini, the Range Rover is perhaps Britain’s […]

It’s been a long-held belief that building small cars was less profitable than large ones. However, as Chris Cowin explains, things are never that straightforward. Making the Mini pay for […]

The matter of how close we are to the end of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is clearly still open to debate right now. However, one thing we can all agree […]

It’s May 1969, and we’re inside the Austin-Morris showroom of Impact Garage of Mortlake near the leafy suburb of Richmond, Greater London. It’s literally a few days since the launch […]

Back at the beginning of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, I made the decision that, as the lights went out in the car industry across the UK, we’d shift the emphasis […]

In the comments section of David Morgan’s recent feature marking the 20th anniversary of the formation of MG Rover, I noted that the number of cars on UK roads seems […]

In a parallel universe, it’s May 1973 and British Leyland has proudly introduced the new Austin Allegro three- and five-door. It’s an exciting new small family car, which is being […]

David Morgan looks back to May 2000 when the remains of the Rover Group were sold by BMW to the Phoenix Consortium for a token £10 and MG Rover was […]

Although it’s not Steve Saxty’s first book, The Cars You Always Promised Yourself is certainly his first serious effort after penning a guide to the Ford Capri III back in the […]

It’s interesting comparing what we think now with contemporary consensus. I like to think that, in my historic writing, I tend to err on the side of reporting the contemporary […]

Back in 1976, when the automotive world was deep into its origami phase, somewhere in the bowels of Longbridge and Solihull, a design competition was going on. Two design teams, […]

AROnline’s longer-standing readers might recall that, back in the day, then-MG6 owner, Martin Williamson, contributed articles about his experiences of the model. Martin has since switched to Jaguar Land Rover and […]

Nothing says 1960s more than a strip speedo, something all the rage at the start of that decade. Chris Cowin takes a look at some cars associated with BMC and […]

We often blithely talk about design classics without actually pondering about their effect on society… Well, the Marina door handles are most certainly a classic in our times and, as […]