Tuesday 22nd April 2014

MG Montego Turbo: Time For Tea?

MG tells dealers how to sell a Montego Turbo, with help from Steve Soper

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'Cringeworthy' tends to be an overused term now, turned to at any moment of slight embarrassment. But this Montego Turbo dealer video takes self-aggrandising awkwardness to whole new levels.

The whiff of cheese is strong in the showroom section of the vid, with the 'prestige and exclusivity' of the MG brand pushed to the fore. Don't forget to check out the presentation pack also.

But out at Thruxton is where the worst excesses of cringe are saved for. Steve Soper has been dragged in to eulogise about the Montego in a horribly forced nature. Did you know the Montego Turbo returns 43mpg at a steady 56mph? Steve does! Of course the car is faultless also, the gearshift light and precise, the handling superb. The smoking inside tyre out of Thruxton's chicane is glossed over...

Steve takes the Montego onto country roads and into the city also where the Montego continues its viceless performance. Sounds like it's the best car in the world, with plenty of equipment too.

Anyway, there is something saved for the end of the video that should definitely make a return to new car sales. Delivery to the customer's address at a time that suits them with a full tank of fuel. Complete with a 'demonstration of the handling characteristics once more'. Maybe not from Steve Soper though.

Enjoy the vid.

[leedsutd1]

belive it or not the montego 1,6L was a big seller had the rover stunt driver parking one in a car park and the ad showing the 0-60 and top speed that was good for the price ,not sure of top speed etc for the turbo
but the MG maestro was pretty quick ,with the early one having a talking dash(I think?) very rare now

[leedsutd1]

I found the advert for the montego complete with stunt driver !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8tahVJ9aSEhttps:
plus this video of young lads with there mg montego"s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYB0TOVMjiU

Edited by leedsutd1 on Tuesday 22 April 17:44

[leedsutd1]

J4CKO, I could not put it better, I had 4,Xr3i"s in the late 80"s and 90"s they only had 108bhp
but were deemed a sports car !!

J4CKO said:

PHMatt said:

I dont get it?
150bhp from a 2.0 Turbo was surely bad then, embarrassing now?

I get their flimsy nature meant they were fairly light but it's 4.6m long, the same as my E46, that's not a little car so must still be in excess of 1k kg's?

I wouldn't put this in the same league as a Cosworth or Cavalier GSi / Turbo 4x4

No, 150 bhp was big power then, cars generally didnt have much more than 100 bhp in most cases, a normal Sierra had a 1.6 engine with 73 bhp, the Cosworth came a couple of years later with 204 bhp but it was a lot more expensive and was a homoglation special, the top Sierra in 1985 was the XR4i with about 150 bhp as well.

Supercars were much less powerful, a Testarossa had 390 bhp, a Countach which was the most barking, fastest bedroom wall adornment of the time had 450 bhp, which nowadays is not that big of a deal.

Everything does this, its called progress, tvs got bigger, mobile phones got smaller and engine power increased markedly.

Out little sub supermini Citroen C1 has 68 bhp, it is only 5 bhp down on a full size family car from
back then.

So, the Montego was a big deal really as we werent overburdened with cars with much more power, plus its still fairly quick now, 0-60 in 7.3 and 0-100 in 20 sec is not that shabby, even now.