MG Montego Turbo

[bazking69]

A mates mum used to have a Montego Turbo when I was a teenager. Many a trip was spent goading her to leave roundabouts at and hit the boost while we all sat there grinning like Cheshire cats!

[SVX]

That is beyond cool

[dbdb]

Good to see a Montego Turbo in such excellent condition. I like it!

[TomM]

Always wanted one as a boy - great to see such a minter

I always wished they did an Montego estate turbo............

[Duke Thrust]

Fantastic car, wheels not to my taste though, a big thumbs up!

[K87]

Dad used to have one of these!! Blue with white alloys, was a beast of a car.

Sold it and bought a turbo diesel estate which just rusted away!

[Brickborg]

As a weird turbo car, I have to love it out of principle!

Looks lovely, but excuse my ignorance- what motor was the turbo variant based on?

[Negative Creep]

Not a fan of the wheels, they're too big and modern. Other than that, it's different and I love it.

[clonmult]

I can't remember the last time I saw a montego or maestro, let alone a turbo variant of either.

[carmadgaz]

clonmult said:

I can't remember the last time I saw a montego or maestro, let alone a turbo variant of either.

Even at the OC stand at MPH teh other year they didn't have any Montegos! Can't remember the last time I saw one in the rust metal (and for some reason I've always liked them )

Good to see one still looking good, lovin' the colour too

[Pablo16v]

Nice to see this. I learned to drive in a 1.6L Montego and always hankered after a Turbo.

[BlackMCS]

Seems like I'm not the only one who has memories of their parents' Montego. We had a B-reg metallic blue 2.0 EFi but a friend of mine who dad had the same car but in black had the version that spoke! You can imagine how cool that was to a 5 year old in the mid 80s.

Out of interest, how quick are the turbos?

[BlackMCS]

Repeat!

Edited by BlackMCS on Wednesday 28th July 13:57

[Jumturbo]

Brickborg said:

As a weird turbo car, I have to love it out of principle!

Looks lovely, but excuse my ignorance- what motor was the turbo variant based on?

Hi, the engine is the 2 litre 'O' series with usual internal factory mods for turbo ie lower compression, Mahl uprated pistons etc.

[Jumturbo]

BlackMCS said:

Out of interest, how quick are the turbos?

As standard from the factory, the Montego Turbos had an official 0-60mph of 7.3secs and a top speed of 127mph. The Maestro Turbos were quicker with a 0-60 of 6.7secs due to being lighter, but due to the Maestros flatter nose, the top speed was only 1mph faster.
Anyhow, at it's launch the Montego Turbo was the fastest accelerating production saloon car and BMW had to release the M3 and Ford the Sierra Cosworth to have saloons that could beat the Monty a year later! The M3 was only 0.5 secs quicker to 60 too! but not quicker than the Maestro!

Edited by Jumturbo on Wednesday 28th July 21:40

[Ninjaboy]

Jumturbo said:

BlackMCS said:

Out of interest, how quick are the turbos?

As standard from the factory, the Montego Turbos had an official 0-60mph of 7.3secs and a top speed of 127mph. The Maestro Turbos were quicker with a 0-60 of 6.7secs due to being lighter, but due to the Maestros flatter nose, the top speed was only 1mph faster.
Anyhow, at it's launch the Montego Turbo was the fastest accelerating production saloon car and BMW had to release the M3 and Ford the Sierra Cosworth to have saloons that could beat the Monty a year later! The M3 was only 0.5 secs quicker to 60 too! but not quicker than the Maestro!

Edited by Jumturbo on Wednesday 28th July 21:40

They feel far faster than the figures suggest and have amazing low down guts.

[Jumturbo]

I suppose that depends on the car's state of tune, although even standard cars feel rapid. Turbo's are easy to increase horsepower and many Montegos and Maestros have had the boost wound up. Moto-build, who used to specialise in these cars, had a Montego Turbo demonstrator that was timed at 0-60 in 5.4 secs!

[discodeek]

very nice mate -credit to you.

[Brian McGee]

Good stuff?

T-series or M-series block?

BM

[Jumturbo]

Brian McGee said:

Good stuff?

T-series or M-series block?

BM

Hi, no it's still the original O-series block/engine. The M and later T-series units fitted to Rover 600/800 were evolutions of the O-series and never officially fitted to the Montego/Maestro. However as the O-series block is essentially the same, T-series and T-series turbo units ( and sometimes the earlier and rarer M-series) became popular conversions. There is a guy on the Maestro owners forum who has converted his Maestro VP to T16 Turbo and reckons it's pushing 300bhp!!