My Maestro Turbo No:435

[ChevronB19]

Lovely! I've had 3 MG Maestros, all bought from the same guy who waxy led the, every 3 months, even down windscreen pillars. Weirdly, they all drove differently.

I think I may still have a dealer workshop manual if you are interested? It's pretty big, so I'd have to ask for postage - probably about a fiver, but would be good if someone could use it rather than it go in the bin. Covers Maestro, but not sure if it also covers the Turbo.

[Johnny50]

Love it! Only thing i'd do would go back to OEM alloys.

I've had 2 MG Metros, and always wanted a Turbo.

I think the Maestro is very love/hate when it comes to them.

I remember my old tech studies teacher had the n/a MG Maestro, that had the voice synthesizer

[Hooli]

Johnny50 said:

I remember my old tech studies teacher had the n/a MG Maestro, that had the voice synthesizer

I seem to recall they even made some of them speak Welsh?

[RemyMartin]

My friend would literally rip your arm off to buy this off you.

He always regrets selling his. Very fast car it was, lots of funny memories.

[mazdajason]

COol, never seen one before at all. Reminds me of a Mazda 323 Turbo.

[MrBrightSi]

Sell me your car OP please

Gorgeous, always wanted a montego, metro or maestro turbo.

[billzeebub]

That looks really lovely, especially with the MGF wheels...bit different from my Grandads old CityX!..

[djdestiny]

Love it!
Ive always been a huge fan of these
An old mate had a black one around 1991, Ive got no idea what happened to it though, I lost contact with him while he still owned it

[rallycross]

Early Maestro's could talk to the driver, that was one of the usp's , Michael.

[nosuchuser]

Lovely car. Very nice. I think the wheels suit it.

[joema]

Awesome. My mum had a 2.0i and and an efi. Good fun from what i remember. She still had it shortly after I passed my driving test. It was sorn, no mot or anything else and I went for a drive on private roads. Great fun! Friend left his wallet in the car and was found out. Whoops... Lesson learnt.

Se gave it to someone to get scrapped and 2 years later got a speeding ticket through the post. Tossers

[vit4]

That is utterly, utterly gorgeous. Well done, the car's a credit

[djdestiny]

The more I look at the photos, the more it makes me love cars from this era, they had character and shape rather than just being another bland smoothed off blob!
I HATE 99.9% of modern cars simply because they are too rounded off and boring

[Number 5]

Great car! I remember a clip that seemed to be always used on the news in early 90's whenever they were reporting joy riders was a recording of a nicked Maestro Turbo being joy rode.

Am I right in thinking the Maestro Turbo was of a different pedigree to that of the Montego Turbo?

[e8_pack]

Number 5 said:

Great car! I remember a clip that seemed to be always used on the news in early 90's whenever they were reporting joy riders was a recording of a nicked Maestro Turbo being joy rode.

Am I right in thinking the Maestro Turbo was of a different pedigree to that of the Montego Turbo?

Pretty sure it was the same O series engine. Almost everyone says these were pretty quick cars, i remember someone saying the fastest car in the town was a maestro turbo when i was a lad and cossies were the big thing - what was it that made the maestro quick - did it have a short box?

[Kidders]

Number 5 said:

Great car! I remember a clip that seemed to be always used on the news in early 90's whenever they were reporting joy riders was a recording of a nicked Maestro Turbo being joy rode.

Am I right in thinking the Maestro Turbo was of a different pedigree to that of the Montego Turbo?

Its was actually a 2.0i and not a turbo that was being joy ridden, I remember it very well on the TV.

There was little difference mechanically between the two, same engine, but maestros used the pre-unleaded ignition ecu and 8.5 .1 compression ratio of the 88 spec montego turbo.

[Kidders]

e8_pack said:

Pretty sure it was the same O series engine. Almost everyone says these were pretty quick cars, i remember someone saying the fastest car in the town was a maestro turbo when i was a lad and cossies were the big thing - what was it that made the maestro quick - did it have a short box?

Light weight, 1070kg, lots of mid range torque and long gearing, very easy to tune, I had mine running mid 13's at pod and on the road it was brutal. Crude, but great fun.

[AndyBrew]

I believe the talking one with the digital dash was a 1.6 on carbs used to sound lovely, my mate had one I was so jealous.

[Kidders]

AndyBrew said:

I believe the talking one with the digital dash was a 1.6 on carbs used to sound lovely, my mate had one I was so jealous.

MG 1600's and early EFis had the digital dash with voice synthesiser, dropped around 85'.

[Ash-GT]

I like this a lot! keep up the good work.