Here are some of the reviews that this site has attracted in the media.
The Telegraph
28 April 2008: The 20 most useful car websites
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Everything you wanted to know about British Leyland, from factory layouts to mystery cars. | |
Top Gear: crank cases
June 2004, interview with Keith Adams
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Keith Adams runs the most awsomely anoraky website we've ever encountered... | |
Autovisie
July 2004 issue
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Keith Adams has been a keen fan of BMC, the British Motor Corporation, all his life, and has dedicated a very extensive website to this company now known as MG-Rover. The enormous amount of information is fascinating, especially due to the colourful and often dramatic history of BMC. All brands that were ever part of the company are covered, from the relatively unknown Authi and Wolseley to MG and Jaguar. Furthermore the site is full of very profound information about specific models, supported by pictures. The enthusiasm and knowledge of the author of the site radiate from it; that makes www.austin-rover.co.uk worth a visit. | |
Kindly translated and submitted by Jacob Sleutelberg
Classic Car Mart
Featured site - February 2004 issue
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What's the worst that can happen when you discover Austin-Rover.Co.UK? I vaguely remember how life was when I used to get eight hours' sleep most nights. I felt lively, energetic (well, very nearly) and ready to face the day ahead. But no more. Oh no. Not since I discovered the joys of www.austin-rover.co.uk – arguably the finest automotive website since... well, since some clever bloke first thought of the Internet. This website should carry a Goverment Health Warning for its addictive nature. But that's really only a tribute to its excellence. Check out this site ONLY if you're prepared for many long nights of sleeplessness. Seriously. [Extract from article written by Paul Guinness] | |
Classic Car Weekly
Snippets - 6 August 2003
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It's a BL world: www.austin-rover.co.uk. the unofficial Austin Rover web resource, has expanded and has a new chat forum. The site, which seems to grow larger every day, is now getting responses from all over the world, so if you fancy chatting online to a Marina owner from Malta, an Allegro enthusiast from Albania or a fan of Maxis from Milton Keynes, this is the place to go. Seriously, the site – which tells the story of BMC, BL and Austin Rover from 1952 – is one of the better classic car websites around, and we're not just saying that because you can read CCW's Harris Mann interview on there as well. | |
Classics
Website of the Month - April 2003
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A really good site, well laid out and packed with info on British Leyland from the BMC years. There's individual model development histories, a timeline, galleries and lots of features, such as on the Ryder Report which shaped the future of BL in 1975. Austin - Rover fans will love it, while everyone will find something of interest, and you'll be on it a while. | |
4Car
Website of the Week - 26 March 2003
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Did you know that Britain once possessed the fifth largest car company in the world? It was called British Leyland, and it included Austin, Morris, Triumph, Riley, Wolseley, Rover, MG, Jaguar, Daimler and Alvis among its famous names. This once-giant conglomerate has now shrunk to the one-factory operation that is MG Rover today. You can read the histories of the cars that shaped the company on this superb website, rather unexcitingly labelled ‘The Unofficial Austin Rover Web Resource’. But don’t be deterred by the name. Whether you want to learn about the genesis of the MGF, the Austin Mini or the Rover 75, this site has it all. Better still, it’s packed with the kind of obscure nuggets of useless information that car buffs love. Did you know, for instance, that the Spanish made a stretched version of the Austin/Morris 1100/1300 called the Austin Victoria? Or that the company once had a factory in Australia that produced the unique, weird and appallingly badly made 4.4-litre Leyland P76 V8? No, thought not. But if you’re even slightly drawn to the arcana of the British motor industry, you owe this site a look. It’s packed with pictures, interviews and links besides a ton of well-researched history. But what’s really impressive is that this site, produced by amateur enthusiasts, has gathered such a reputation that many famous names involved in the company have contributed to it. It is unlikely to be bettered. | |
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Autobild
"Very British"; Featured website - March 2003
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What is the difference between BMC, BMH and BLMC? Have you ever
heard of the Riley Elf or the Wolseley Hornet and not thought of the Mini?
If someone poses these questionss and speaks a little English, they should
have a look at austin-rover.co.uk. There you'll find the mysterious Company
History of BLMC summarised in a finely detailed labour of love. It's very
typically British by the way, with much humour - which, given the endless
list of tragedies is nothing short of a fine art. Very detailed and rich
in facts. Special attention to detail is paid to the developmental history
of widely-known cars, of course including the Mini but also such ludicrious
developments as the Triumph TR8, the Austin Maxi or similar horrors. There,
one discovers such things as... that as production commenced on the Rover
SD1, the Toolmakers went on Strike, thus robbing what was (in principle)
one of the greatest English post-war cars of a fighting chance. As previously
stated, everything is very British here. |
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Autocar
Steve Cropley's Motoring Week - 12 December 2002
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Do you have a lingering fascination with the roller coaster history of Austin-Rover ubiquitous local mass producer eventually (unsuccessfully) swallowed by BMW in 1994? If so, you want to know about an important new website packed with info about the company and its models, which represents years of research by arch enthusiast Keith Adams. it's a true labour of love. | |
The Sunday Times
13 October 2002
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So what went wrong with the British car industry? Where did it all go awry? With such great cars as the Austin Allegro, which even had a square steering wheel, the Morris Marina and Triumph TR7, surely it was destined to succeed? Austin-rover.co.uk explains why it went down the pan - a genuinely sad tale. | |
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