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hidetheelephants said:
There are many legitimate criticisms of the Metro but handling isn't one of them; how old were the tyres? My brother had a MG Metro in the early 90s and it stuck to the road like s
t to a blanket.
I liked the way the MG Metro (and Metros generally) drove. I learned to drive in an MG Metro. It was such a nimble thing, it made my mother's Golf feel like a tractor.t to a blanket.hidetheelephants said:
There are many legitimate criticisms of the Metro but handling isn't one of them; how old were the tyres? My brother had a MG Metro in the early 90s and it stuck to the road like st to a blanket.
I really can't get me head around all the love for the Metro, has the passing of time dulled people's senses? It was an underdeveloped piece of st to a blanket.t. My first company car back in 1984 was a basic Metro City which had zero redeeming features and my wife's MG Metro promised much and delivered very little.I suppose in the end everything becomes a classic!
Gunk said:
My first company car back in 1984 was a basic Metro City which had zero redeeming features
As a company car, at that time, my guess is you had no choice, but if you did have choice, then it would very likely have been limited to a base Metro, Fiesta or Nova (very unusual to have had choice of anything other than the big three back then). I suspect you would have found all three rubbish? There would have been about two dozen or so other alternatives too had you got free reign to choose, what would you have preferred?
The sixties bank robbery gspecial 
Balmoral said:
Gunk said:
My first company car back in 1984 was a basic Metro City which had zero redeeming features
As a company car, at that time, my guess is you had no choice, but if you did have choice, then it would very likely have been limited to a base Metro, Fiesta or Nova (very unusual to have had choice of anything other than the big three back then). I suspect you would have found all three rubbish? There would have been about two dozen or so other alternatives too had you got free reign to choose, what would you have preferred?Luckily I'd moved on to a 1.3 Astra, which wasn't a bad car at the time.
Always amused when Jaguar 3.8s are called bank robber specials. My uncle had one in London, and only used it at weekends, if then. His cars were regularly stolen and implicated in robberies - he was an accountant so he did his robberies on paper!
Anyway, at least once the police returned it when he didn't realise it had been stolen, and for a while, he drove one of his Jags with a different licence plate on the front to the back - but that was the way it had been supplied by the dealer. Probably helped confused witnesses to bank robberies too.
Before that, he had an MG Magnette, which, to my memory, had a fabulous gearchange. Does anyone else remember that?
Anyway, at least once the police returned it when he didn't realise it had been stolen, and for a while, he drove one of his Jags with a different licence plate on the front to the back - but that was the way it had been supplied by the dealer. Probably helped confused witnesses to bank robberies too.
Before that, he had an MG Magnette, which, to my memory, had a fabulous gearchange. Does anyone else remember that?
LotusOmega375D said:
Phenomenal : what's it like to drive? Any good on the road?
I would describe it as agricultural, mechanical and extremely loud. You need Iron man muscles with the clutch and the gear change is laboured but it is a hoot to drive short distances and the sound is hard to beat.If I was to use one word to sum it up...........awesome
Stuart1961 said:
I would describe it as agricultural, mechanical and extremely loud. You need Iron man muscles with the clutch and the gear change is laboured but it is a hoot to drive short distances and the sound is hard to beat.
If I was to use one word to sum it up...........awesome
I'd love to read a lot more about this, any chance of a Readers' Ride thread?If I was to use one word to sum it up...........awesome
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