Posts Tagged ‘Rover’

20 years ago this week, Rover Group pulled out of the US new car market. Why? Because the business strategy was to sell upwards of 30k cars a year over ...

@toyotapr pointed it out: how nice it is to see the Rover Vitesse back in the news. It has hit the headlines once again thanks to the efforts of Mark ...

Rover underwhelmed the world with the 1995 Rover 400. There were many cars that could have marked the point where the more recent Rover rot set in: I point to ...

ALFA Romeo will show the sexy Ford Focus-rivalling Giulietta in public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in March. It’s a make-or-break car. Lordy, how many times ...

AUTOCAR man Steve Cropley interviewed the team behind the MGF back in 1995. His piece is full of fascinating findings: 5 of them caught my eye, which helped show that ...

FORD finally won ownership to the Rover brand name in 2006. But it was providing aid for the brand even before then. Secret talks in the late 90s were conducted, ...

ROVER’S unveiling of the 200 made for a fascinating news report by Julian Rendell back in ’95. He was reporting from the London Motor Show, at which he spoke to ...

TWO decades ago, the car industry was in a recession, too. 1991 was a year of depression, sales shrinkages and dealer drama. Sound familiar? Well, looking at the news of ...

IT was Rover that introduced the UK to the Pandora’s box of secondary ride quality considerations. Secondary what? Yes, indeed. Edit the above to insert (non too successfully). But, there ...

STUDYING new car data is something I do every day at Motoring Research Ltd. Torque figures, combined fuel consumption, CO2, weights, boot capacities, the whole shooting match. So it was ...