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Our Cars

We like to put our money where our mouth is by running the cars we cover on AROnline. Sometimes they’re troublesome, but always rewarding. Here’s the pick of them…

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Our Cars : Keith’s Audi 80 CD – 1000 miles on

10 July 2022 Keith Adams 3

Regular readers might have noticed that I keep an updated list of my cars on this site – the blog, My Life in Cars is a personal record of my […]

Keith's Rover 75 Tourer

Our Cars : Keith’s Rover 75 – hanging in the balance…

26 May 2022 Keith Adams 17

Better late than never… It seems to be the story of my life at the moment. But here we are, and my beautiful Rover 75 Tourer went in for its […]

Austin 1300
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Our Cars : Keith’s Austin 1300 – 1000 miles on

5 April 2022 Keith Adams 12

Keith’s Austin 1300 is soldiering on, but the desire to improve it is starting to surface… A change in the weather allowed me to grab the Austin 1300’s keys, pull […]

Keith's Rover 75 Tourer
Keith's Rover 75 Tourer

Our Cars : Keith’s Rover 75 Tourer – springtime reawakenings

20 March 2022 Keith Adams 3

I can’t pretend it’s not been a long, dark winter – what with a bout of COVID-19 over Christmas, various family isolation periods, and a sense that those long nights […]

Rover 220 Tomcat
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Our Cars : Richard Truett’s Rover 220 Tomcat

28 December 2021 Richard Truett 5

Our man in the USA, Richard Truett, has picked up a new car – it’s a Rover 220 Tomcat that’s a former AROnline Car of The Month. Here’s the story […]

Austin 1300
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Our Cars : Keith’s Austin 1300 – 500 miles on

13 November 2021 Keith Adams 13

Winter’s coming, but Keith’s been putting some miles on his Austin 1300… The BMC 1100/1300 was one of the UK’s best-selling cars for much of the 1960s and well into […]

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Our Cars : Keith’s Audi 80 – two years and counting

7 August 2021 Keith Adams 23

It popped up on my social media feed that I’ve owned this car for two years now! Anyone who knows me will tell you that I rarely keep cars very […]

Keith's Austin 1300

Our Cars : Keith Adams’ Austin 1300

21 July 2021 Keith Adams 24

Another month, another new motor. And this one’s a bit special, as it’s a reasonable example of a car I’ve wanted for as long as I can remember. In fact, […]

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Our Cars : Nissan Primera vs Montego

13 July 2021 Neil Turner 23

At first glance, a comparison between the brilliant Nissan Primera and the highly-developed Montego looks like a one-horse race.  However, as the owner of these two cars, Neil Turner, explains […]

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Our Cars : Mike’s Rover 75 2.0 KV6 – Old fart with a bright spark

27 June 2021 Mike Humble 0

Meanwhile, down in the south, AROnline’s other Rover 75 project receives some good old-fashioned fettling.  Mike Humble tells all…  Rather akin to what Keith posted recently, my own account of the […]

Keith's Rover 75 Tourer

Our Cars : Keith’s Rover 75 Tourer starts to take shape

19 June 2021 Keith Adams 7

Hello to the first update of my Rover 75 Tourer running reports. Firstly, I should start with an apology for not getting much updated or uploaded on to the site, […]

Keith's Rover 75 Tourer

Our Cars : Keith Adams’ Rover 75 Tourer Connoisseur SE 2.0 CDT

16 May 2021 Keith Adams 24

Keith Adams hasn’t had a Rover 75 since his misadventure in a rather ropey 1.8 almost a decade ago. But he’s back in this Copperleaf Rover 75 Tourer – the […]

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Our Cars : Mike Humble’s Rover 75 Connoisseur SE 2.0

11 April 2021 Mike Humble 8

Mike Humble didn’t need it, nor did he want it. But he’s bought it all the same – over to Mike for the fully nitty-gritty on this rather gorgeous Copperleaf […]

Steven Ward's Rover 600
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Our Cars : Steven Ward’s Rover 600

5 April 2021 Steven Ward 15

Was it really over a decade since I wrote Short-selling the Syncro? Yes. So how has the article fared in that decade? Well, I’ve been running one daily for the […]

Austin Apache

Our Cars : Austin Apache memories

8 June 2020 Martin Williamson 20

Ask any automotive journalist who has travelled and most, if not all, will attest to the fact that any car always felt better to drive in its birthplace. There’s a […]

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Our Cars : MG 1100 or MG 1300 MkII?

10 May 2020 Martin Williamson 26

AROnline Contributor Martin Williamson says that MG is a given for him – like several other members of our Editorial Team, he has a soft spot for the ADO16 range, […]

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Our Cars : Mike’s Saab 9-3 Vector Convertible

29 December 2018 Mike Humble 10

As we enter another new year, we start it with another new motor. Say hello to Mike’s new steed for 2019 as his mid-life crisis decrees he must go topless… […]

Alexander's Rover Tourer

Our Cars : Alexander’s Rover Tourer – back from the brink

9 October 2018 Alexander Boucke 7

Words and photography: Alexander Boucke In January 2017 I wrote about the accident which put our trusty Rover Tourer’s fate on trial. Yes, that was quite a while ago but, to cut […]

Mike's Rover 75

Our Cars : Mike’s Rover 75 – Movin’ on one last time…

27 August 2018 Mike Humble 9

Mike Humble is about to part ways with his Boomerang Rover 75. Will he live to regret it?  Do you want to own this well-sorted, highly-fettled example of the breed? […]

Keith's Citroën GS

Our Cars : Keith’s Citroën GS – 2500 miles on

26 August 2018 Keith Adams 9

After a quiet winter and spring resting up in Cumbria, I decided it was time to ready my Citroën GS for a summer of car shows – and its first appearance at […]

Alexander's Citroën XM

Our cars : Alexander’s Citroën XM – 22,000 miles on

10 April 2018 Alexander Boucke 14

Although the XM is not yet a classic in legal terms, it certainly is rare here in Germany – very rare in V6 Estate guise. But that is no reason […]

Keith's Citroën GS

Our Cars : Keith’s Citroën GS – 1500 miles on

4 April 2018 Keith Adams 12

The winter months are quiet ones for classic cars. Or they should be. What’s in the script is that they get put under a blanket and wait forlornly for spring, and […]

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News : Y-Reg MINIs – they’re getting noticed

30 March 2018 Keith Adams 42

Why so much interest in Y-reg MINIs? The R50- and onwards-generation of MINI rather neatly dovetails with AROnline in many ways. We appeared at the same time in 2001, started out […]

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