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Consumer Reports Trashes Range Rover Evoque, Nouveau Riche Shrug With Apathy
Consumer Reports failed to give the Range Rover Evoque its “Recommended Rating”. Instead, the BMW X3 nabbed the coveted title. Too bad the hordes of auto journos and status-concious customers have...
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Somewhere In The World, People Want A Jaguar Station Wagon
TTAC readers, especially those in the United States may profess their undying love for station wagons, but their pleas tend to fall on deaf ears. Not so for European Jaguar dealers – their requests...
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Lotus And Mansory Team Up In World’s Most Vulgar Alliance
A year ago, I penned a passionate defense of the new direction that was being taken by Lotus. In the piece, I chastised enthusiasts for their armchair criticism of Lotus management and their...
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Jaguar Adds 2.0L Turbo 4-Cylinder, Supercharged V6 To Lineup
Two new engines will be joining the Jaguar family, with at least one confirmed for the new F-Type sports car. First up is a 3.0L Supercharged V6, displacing 340 or 380 horsepower depending on output....
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Has Lotus Produced A World-Class Sports Car Under Dany Bahar?
Despite all the righteous indignation regarding Lotus and their legendary outburst – which I still maintain is a brilliant PR stunt to get their message out and subvert the armchair-racer blogger...
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Capsule Review: Aston Martin V8 Vantage
If you are an automotive journalist who socializes with people who don’t have a bizarre fascination with the automobile and its associated trivia (there’s not many of us, believe me), you will...
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Morgan 3 Wheeler Being Offered To Eccentric American Anglophiles
51 years ago, my beloved Grandfather emigrated from England. Despite being a man of modest means, he immediately went out and bought himself the biggest, V8 powered American sedan he could buy (the...
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Mini John Cooper Works GP Absolves The Sins Of Brand Dilution
Has Mini’s over-propagation of vehicles gotten so bad that we’re actually cheering when a new special isn’t a silly two-seater or pseudo-crossover? The Mini John Cooper Works GP may be overpriced,...
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Junkyard Find: 1971 MGB
You see plenty of Fiat 124 Sport Spiders in self-service wrecking yards these days, but junked MGBs— which were more commonplace back in the day— are fairly rare. The MGB was slower, less...
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Swizz Beats Buys A Morgan, British Car Fans Weep
British car fans upset over Swizz Beats‘ involvement with Lotus Cars will be beside themselves when they learn that the rapper/producer is now the owner of the last bastion of Brit-snob motoring – a...
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Current Generation Range Rovers Set For Massive Depreciation As New Model Debuts
Owners of current shape Range Rovers are bracing for devestating depreciation, as the introduction of the next-generation car looms, making owners of the current vehicle look like pathetic try-hards...
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Capsule Review: Jaguar XJL Portfolio
Auto journalists have a habit of being cornered at parties by interested outsiders – usually, the boyfriend of the cute girl you were just flirting with – and pounced upon with the standard question....
View ArticleBritish Auto Industry Revived Under New Ownership, Motor City Benefits
Click here to view the embedded video. In the early 1980s, when Japanese car companies started conquering the automotive world, few would have predicted the survival of the British car industry....
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Homeland Security’s New Job: Seizing Land Rover Defenders
Car and Driver scribe (and TTAC alum) Justin Berkowitz has penned an amazing feature about the U.S. Government’s campaign against grey market Land Rover Defenders. According to Berkowitz, Defender...
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Junkyard Find: 1979 MGB
As a former MGB commuter, I always feel a certain sadness when I see one of British Leyland’s underpowered little sports cars about to get eaten by The Crusher. The B was a surprisingly sturdy car of...
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Junkyard Find: 1967 MGB
The MGB is not at all uncommon in American self-service wrecking yards these days— perhaps a bit less numerous than the Fiat 124 Sports Spider, but I still see a few Crusher-bound MGBs every year. I...
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Junkyard Find: 1965 Triumph Spitfire
By far the most numerous British sports car in junkyards these days— and, in fact, for the last few decades— is the MGB. We’ve seen many of these cars in this series, but today’s find is just the...
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Junkyard Find: 1989 Sterling 827 SLi Fastback
When you find a Jensen Interceptor in one row and a Maserati Biturbo Spyder in the next row at a Los Angeles self-service wrecking yard, you can count on finding another weird import not far away. Sure...
View ArticleBritain Expected to Build More Cars Than France for the First Time Since 1966
Click here to view the embedded video. For the first time since 1966, the United Kingdom’s automobile industry will likely build more cars than those built in France. Increasing domestic and export...
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Junkyard Find: 1967 Triumph Spitfire Mark III
Some old cars have managed to maintain a steady trickle of fresh examples into self-serve wrecking yards since I began crawling around in such yards, back in 1981 or so. The kings of this phenomenon...
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Junkyard Find: 1979 Triumph Spitfire 1500
The low-value British or Italian sports car that sits in rough condition in a yard or driveway for decades, then takes that sad final journey to the local U-Wrench-It— it’s been a staple of the...
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Crapwagon Outtake: The Answer *IS* Miata
I like the aesthetic properties of old British cars. The way they drive, leak fluids and operate on a sporadic basis is another matter. So, what could be better than a British car with a modern,...
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Junkyard Find: Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow
Most of these Junkyard Finds come from big chain-owned self-service wrecking yards that have fast inventory turnover and plenty of fresh cars at all times. This means that I’m going to see lots of...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1979 MG MGB
MGBs continue to show up in self-service wrecking yards, with another rubber-bumper Malaise Era example today. In my junkyard expeditions prior to today, I’ve photographed this ’67, this ’71, this ’75,...
View ArticleJaguar Land Rover Isn’t Changing Its Plans Because of Brexit; Analyst Says...
Jaguar Land Rover’s brands are as British as crumpets and the Union Jack (ignore the fact that it’s owned by India’s Tata Motors), so concerns over Britain’s vote to leave the European Union should...
View ArticleNAIAS: Bentley Continental GT V8
Since its introduction, the Bentley Continental GT has been a fascinating lesson in how “luxury” operates. Fundamentally identical to the VW Phaeton, the Conti sold for twice as much — and did volumes...
View ArticleAsk The Best And Brightest: What Will Replace Maybach As The Rapper’s Car Of...
Jay-Z may have been the biggest celebrity booster (certainly TTAC wasn’t) of the Maybach line, but the brand’s demise is going to leave Hov high and dry for new wheels. So will Hov go back to the Lexus...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1990 Range Rover Classic
Denver drivers love their luxury SUVs, and European luxury vehicles tend to depreciate in a hurry. This means plenty of Land Rovers show up in the area’s big self-service wrecking yards. While this is...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1976 MG MGB
During my 35 years of poking around in car graveyards, one thing has remained constant: MGBs keep showing up. Not in large numbers, but the rate at which these lovable-but-not-particularly-valuable...
View ArticleResurrected TVR Has a New Car, a Lineup of Buyers and an Old Model Name
It’s exciting times for the independent British automaker. TVR, which reappeared on the automotive scene in 2013 after an absence of seven years, plans to unveil a production sports car in September....
View ArticleThe Empire Strikes Back: Anglo Quirkiness at the British Invasion of Stowe
Just imagine for a second that Britain’s best-known automotive nameplates aren’t owned by the Germans and Indians. Once upon a time, the Union Jack fluttered proudly over a vast empire of brands. The...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1999 Jaguar XJR
Say it’s 1999 and you’re shopping for a powerful and flashy European luxury sedan. Do you spend $51,300 for a new Mercedes-Benz E430? $65,000 for an Audi A8 4.2? A gleaming BMW 740i with a $66,970...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: Small Block Chevy-swapped 1969 Jaguar XJ6
The Series 1 Jaguar XJ, built for the 1968 through 1973 model years, sold fairly well in the United States but became a rare sight in self-service wrecking yards well before the 20th century was...
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