Opinion

Ah, there’s a ‘y’ in the day – Keith must have bought another car. Yes, sad as it is to say, my self-professed period of abstinence really didn’t last very […]

I love AROnline. When people say to me that we must be running out of new things to talk about after all these years, I smile. That’s mainly because new […]

On reading Keith’s piece on the new Defender, I had to comment. If you have read my other blogs you will know that I did have a connection with Rover and […]

I’ve been in Frankfurt all day having fun with my day job, but at least I had plenty of time to have a good look around the Land Rover Defender, […]

The automotive media loves a major anniversary, it gives it an excuse to trot out special articles on the product in question and 2019 is no exception – the BMC […]

During the recent National Metro and Mini Show at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon I happened to stumble across the last Austin Maxi built, assembled at Cowley in July […]

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. […]