RE: Shed Of The Week: Rover Metro

[newdogg06]

Not my bag although I had immense fun in these when I worked for a Rover dealer many moons ago.
Excellent for 'attitude adjustment' via the handbrake, you could lean on the oddly-angled steering wheel with your arms and the auto with the CVT 'box was a rocket off the line. Wind it up to 3500 and the revs stayed there at max-torque while the gearbox did the work. Surprisingly quick. The PSA diesel 1.5 was shocking though.
The wheels are indeed GTa alloys and were an option on the range.
Best memory was delivering a fleet of 6 to a company, all in a line at a red light, all 'humping' with the clutch at biting point with the handbrake on.

[Harry H]

Many moons ago I had an MG Metro. pretty sure it was A- Series and not K though. Yes it was crap (even for it's day) but at the same time a great laugh to throw around. The 4 speed gearbox was a pain on motorways but roundabouts were excellent. It's not always about how fast you're going but how much fun you're having. The MG metro wasn't fast, but it was fun.

There's still an excellent race series for them I think. Cheap as chips. 25 metro's barreling into Paddock Hill bend at Brands has got to be an excellent laugh even if you did somewhat run out of steam on the hill up to Druids. It's the only reason I could possibly think of wanting to own one now though.

[aarondbs]

I like some Metros. I remember driving a GTa and thought it looked great and it certainly zipped along. This is too blue rinse spec but a GTa, a turbo or a GTi would be ok.

[Amirhussain]

moskvich427 said:

KillerHERTZ said:

Id rather walk!

I'd rather crawl on my hands and knees

I'd rather have ebola.

[Deebo007]

Awful car, terrible SOTW. Please try harder next time!

[anonymous-user]

Is this a joke?

Useless in a crash test in 1980, made even worse by the fact they had 17 years to improve it but didn't.

If anyone I knew bought and drove a Metro today, I would question their mental health when there is so much better out there.

Edited by Phil303 on Friday 24th October 11:29

[TobesH]

Had an MG Metro, it was great :-)

[J4CKO]

moskvich427 said:

KillerHERTZ said:

Id rather walk!

I'd rather crawl on my hands and knees

You actually mean that ? you have say a ten mile journey to do, lets say on a cold, wet Tuesday evening in February, carrying a decent sized bag, you are offered the keys to this SOTW Metro, sat idling happily, heater on, headlamps on, radio on, plenty of fuel, tax, mot'd and insured and you would really say, "no thanks I will walk" (or crawl), you would prefer a three hour walk than a 15 minute journey in a car, even if it is a Metro ?

I find that about ninety percent of what a car is, is just about getting in it, it moving me, and some stuff I need to take with me, and arriving at a destination, the other ten percent is the bks we yatter on about on here.

[Turkishwaiter]

Yeah no thanks, but in my younger years I used to borrow my mums metro gti 16v, which was a great little car, it would corner on three wheels everywhere and felt reasonably quick (at the time!). The brakes where terrible and it looked like a metro though.

[anonymous-user]

£1000 for that, no thanks. Very poor shed of the week.

[KTF]

Turkishwaiter said:

mums metro gti 16v...looked like a metro.

Who would have thought

[Crapgame]

Uncle John said:

Weird!

I passed one of these being wrung out at 70mph on the M23 this morning.

An old bloke was giving it max death beans, the windows were steamed up and he was about an inch away from the steering wheel.

Textbook stuff!!

Screen needs wipedown due to tea biscuit interaction

Patricularly..

Uncle John said:

giving it max death beans,

Sinful awful car no.. just no.

[scubadude]

dbdb said:

That said, I would want a more crash worthy car than the Metro for daily use.

Hitting a metro doesn't require an ambulance you just use the wash wipe and continue- hideous death boxes.

Maybe the ad was a typo, I'd give them £9.50 for it, I need a new chicken coop.

[AC43]

aarondbs said:

I like some Metros. I remember driving a GTa and thought it looked great and it certainly zipped along. This is too blue rinse spec but a GTa, a turbo or a GTi would be ok.

I drove a 1.3 version from Edinburgh to Skye and back in (IIRC) 1983. It was toward the end of the era of skinny tyres and you could adopt all sorts of lines on big sweepers with all four tyres howling.

Given that my benchmark at the time for Highland hooning was a Sud the Matro was a surprisingly good steer. I suppose it was an oversized Mini, really, with more suspension travel and better brakes.

[dandarez]

Dave Hedgehog said:

soad said:

Now, that's a desirable Metro!

if i remember correctly only the doors and lights are shared

I think that's true, but it's still called a METRO.

[tomcrowther]

And here was me hoping for this week's shed to be some sort of french 90s hot hatch, and it ends up being a Metro.

[B'stard Child]

Excellent Shed choice - great condition and a nice spec (unusual) - probably an appreciating classic - one to tuck away for another 10 years when they will all have long gone. Occasional days out and car shows to show the world someone did care enough about a Metro (Rover 100) to save it for future generations.

[AC43]

HorneyMX5 said:

How about a nice sleeper Metro?

Excellent sleeper. The perfect combo of colour and spec.

I assume that running a turbo'd A Series of some description?

[cybersimon]

Brilliant. A real sheddy sheddy shed shed shed of a shed.

[GranCab]

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Edited by GranCab on Friday 24th October 11:48