RE: SOTW: Montego Turbo

[MarJay]

I read an article about poor handling FWD cars in Evo a few years back, and a road tester said that he once overtook a lorry in an MG Maestro Turbo without even turning the steering wheel... the torque steer was that bad!

[andymadmak]

Dave_ST220 said:

TheOrangePeril said:

Love it! Anyone know if these were/are as fun to drive as the maestro?

Maestro & fun to drive in one sentence? Are you fking kidding?!, biggest heap of st.Ever.

Ever driven the Maestro Turbo? It was fantasticly chuckable and planted at the same time. I loved mine. I well remember soundly thrashing my colleague in his 205Gti 1.9 around Donnington Park with mine. It had so much more grip and controllability at the limit than the (very good) Pug

[Riggers]

cod man said:

"un-remittingly execrable"

That means good, no?

No. Means never anything other than execrable

[Digga]

Frimley111R said:

Top shedding and loving the video, that's Steve Soper right? (Don't have sound atm)

Yes it's Steve Soper.

I have sound on my PC so I can precis his comments:

Steve Soper said:

a lot of lies and vague untruths about how 'good' the MG Montego Turbo is

HTH

[dave-the-diver]

[andymadmak]

MarJay said:

I read an article about poor handling FWD cars in Evo a few years back, and a road tester said that he once overtook a lorry in an MG Maestro Turbo without even turning the steering wheel... the torque steer was that bad!

no, it wasn't.

[Faust66]

Piece of junk IMO.

That said, it'd make a fair sleeper....

[Jaz300CE]

amazing video - "the montego turbo a tremendously paaarrful car" do you have the paaar? love it!

[Romanymagic]

I had a Maesto Turbo, think 0-60 was around 6.9, felt seriously quick back in the day, didn't handle at all well though.

[Digga]

Riggers said:

cod man said:

"un-remittingly execrable"

That means good, no?

No. Means never anything other than execrable

Grammar police.

If it were (more accurately) described as being "un-remittingly crap" it would mean it's crapness knew no ends and was undimishing.

So the original quote means it is execrable.

[TrevorH]

I had the non-turbo version for a while. It was comfortable and reasonably economical for the time, but it was not especially reliable. Three front wheel bearings and two alternators in a year, iirc, and window switches that would turn the radio on and off when the first alternator went wrong.

[RacingPete]

Chris_w666 said:

domV8 said:

"That made it the fastest production MG ever, don't yer know..."

Top-spec MGF's were faster I believe - think around the 7sec mark...?

I am impressed at you misquoting the article to try and make youself look smart.

What had MG produced that was quicker when the Montego Turbo was launched?

To be fair to domV8 Riggers has since updated the article to add "at the time"... So "at the time" domV8 was correct in his quote

[mekondelta]

Excellent cars these, you can change lane just by putting your foot down!

Dad had one. Fast and comfortable. Turbo blew twice and had a replacement engine later on. My Dad's not a nutter driver either...

[Dave_ST220]

andymadmak said:

Dave_ST220 said:

TheOrangePeril said:

Love it! Anyone know if these were/are as fun to drive as the maestro?

Maestro & fun to drive in one sentence? Are you fking kidding?!, biggest heap of st.Ever.

Ever driven the Maestro Turbo? It was fantasticly chuckable and planted at the same time. I loved mine. I well remember soundly thrashing my colleague in his 205Gti 1.9 around Donnington Park with mine. It had so much more grip and controllability at the limit than the (very good) Pug

Not the turbo, no. I owned one for 6 months and it was the biggest turd ever. Light steering, st grip, feeling of hedgerow moment any minute. Was better than a push bike mind Not to mention the rust.

[Chris_w666]

RacingPete said:

Chris_w666 said:

domV8 said:

"That made it the fastest production MG ever, don't yer know..."

Top-spec MGF's were faster I believe - think around the 7sec mark...?

I am impressed at you misquoting the article to try and make youself look smart.

What had MG produced that was quicker when the Montego Turbo was launched?

To be fair to domV8 Riggers has since updated the article to add "at the time"... So "at the time" domV8 was correct in his quote

In that case Riggers is thick, can I have his job, and Sorry Dom.

[MarJay]

andymadmak said:

MarJay said:

I read an article about poor handling FWD cars in Evo a few years back, and a road tester said that he once overtook a lorry in an MG Maestro Turbo without even turning the steering wheel... the torque steer was that bad!

no, it wasn't.

Why roll your eyes? I explained that it was the Evo road tester who wrote this, I have no personal experience of the car. It did sound like a tongue in cheek comment at the time...

[Riggers]

Chris_w666 said:

RacingPete said:

Chris_w666 said:

domV8 said:

"That made it the fastest production MG ever, don't yer know..."

Top-spec MGF's were faster I believe - think around the 7sec mark...?

I am impressed at you misquoting the article to try and make youself look smart.

What had MG produced that was quicker when the Montego Turbo was launched?

To be fair to domV8 Riggers has since updated the article to add "at the time"... So "at the time" domV8 was correct in his quote

In that case Riggers is thick, can I have his job, and Sorry Dom.

I am. Sorry to DomV8 from me also. And no you can't, Chris.

[Chris_w666]

Riggers said:

Chris_w666 said:

RacingPete said:

Chris_w666 said:

domV8 said:

"That made it the fastest production MG ever, don't yer know..."

Top-spec MGF's were faster I believe - think around the 7sec mark...?

I am impressed at you misquoting the article to try and make youself look smart.

What had MG produced that was quicker when the Montego Turbo was launched?

To be fair to domV8 Riggers has since updated the article to add "at the time"... So "at the time" domV8 was correct in his quote

In that case Riggers is thick, can I have his job, and Sorry Dom.

I am. Sorry to DomV8 from me also. And no you can't, Chris.

I was hoping someone would give me your job without you knowing

[DannyVTS]

The owner is on here!

Wait there.... i'll get the link

[Balmoral Green]

andymadmak said:

I well remember soundly thrashing my colleague in his 205Gti 1.9 around Donington Park with mine.

I was lapping Castle Combe faster than the 205 1.9GTi's in my 2.0i Montego estate. My instuctor was timing me and quite a crowd had developed around the stop watch. When they then discovered that it was the ZF four speed auto too, they nearly died