British Leyland Jonathan | 02 Sep 2006
Every so often a really fascinating book gets published. A lot of my purchases end up joining their friends on the shelf after the first few chapters as I run out of time or interest to finish them properly, but “Making Cars at Longbridge” had been devoured from cover to cover within three hours of [...]
British Leyland Jonathan | 15 Jul 2006
The last Maestro off the line is for sale again, this time on ebay.
The 36 mile Clubman D hasn’t seen the light of day for the last three years, but with only two days to go until its future is decided it’s hard not to feel a little anxious. Surely the exclusivity of this one [...]
British Leyland & Car Shows Jonathan | 15 Apr 2006
It’s hard to believe that it’s now a year since MG Rover called in the administrators. With speculation over its imminent demise so often in the press over the last couple of decades I became blind to it in the end. Longbridge was about to celebrate its Centenary, Rover had been a household name throughout [...]
British Leyland Jonathan | 02 Feb 2006
According to an old saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”. Generally speaking any mention of statistics immediately sends my brain into shutdown; numbers go right over my head. That was until last week when some interesting figures surfaced on an internet forum giving us our first good impression of [...]