Opinion

Okay… it’s a New Year, and the first job is to check in with the AROnline community to see if our combined love of old British cars is as strong […]

Happy New Year! And welcome to the new decade. Whether it’ll be a case of the ‘roaring Twenties’ or just more of the same, it’s good to mark the arrival […]

The beginning of a new decade is a great opportunity to pause, reflect and consider. And so it proves the perfect opportunity to review what an amazing, tumultuous and fertile […]

Arguably, the Sixties were the years of style over substance. In many cases the engines were slightly warmed over from the previous decade but in others, although completely new, were […]

Was the Beetle really that great? And was Sir William Rootes really that foolish? This opinion piece was originally published in the Canadian paper Old Autos. It is reproduced here […]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Here we are – another year older and probably not much wiser. It’s certainly been an interesting one – what with months and […]

Mention British Leyland to anybody today and you will probably be told that it was a badly managed company that made terrible cars and its workforce were always on strike. […]

The Rover Metro/100 Series (R6) was about the most brilliant low-budget revamp of an existing model in automotive history – it really was extraordinary how the wide-track wishbone front end […]

The Chrysler ownership of the Rootes Group should go down as one of the lowest moments in UK automotive industry – it was as big a missed opportunity as when […]

Lotus was working with Chrysler in the mid-1980s/early 1990s on a number of programmes. The only one to make it to production was the DOHC cylinder head for Chrysler’s 2.2-litre […]

Some might say that a car as pretty as the Jaguar F-Type probably didn’t need facelifting. Although the X152 was said to be based upon a shortened XK platform, there’s […]

Back in 1982, BL Technology unveiled the interesting ECV3 Prototype. This fascinating family-sized hatchback was the first all-new prototype to be publicly released by Spen King’s Gaydon-based think tank, which was […]

Aston Martin describes its new DBX as, ‘a bold new chapter and a landmark moment in our illustrious 106-year history. Our first SUV will propel the brand to new heights […]

Well, it is General Election time in the UK again, with various dubious characters promising nirvana if you vote for them. So, I have delved into the archives to produce […]

Regular readers of AROnline will be fully conversant about the relationship between BMC and Pininfarina. There’s no denying that, when these two joined forces, industrial magic ensued. From the Austin A40 […]

Ah, yes the Rover SD1 – a popular and iconic car that’s now seen as a mainstream and desirable classic car. It’s been lauded by AROnline many, many times over […]

Badge-engineering. Good or bad? For BMC, the first extensively badge-engineered model was the Morris Oxford/Austin Cambridge Pininfarina saloon. Comparing the Farina saloons with lookalikes from overseas gives one a good […]

Many people think of the Morris Marina as a perfectly named car, as it flopped about on the road like a small boat on big waves. It has to be […]

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 […]

The latest edition of Jaguar World Monthly magazine has an excellent article by the Editor, Paul Walton, about a road trip he made from Toronto in County Durham to Moscow […]