RE: SOTW: Montego Turbo

[Hip2Bsquare]

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

I've got to agree with all of that.

I had use if both around the same time back in the early 90s

The MG Maestro was fab to drive!

Ugly IMHO & prone to rust though! Shame

[DannyVTS]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

There we go!

It seems he was quite happy to get it back, wonder why hes selling so soon

Edited by DannyVTS on Friday 8th October 13:05

[Balmoral Green]

Romanymagic said:

didn't handle at all well though.

Compared to what though? Whilst no Lotus, the Meastro/Montego had a really good chassis for what it was, compared to other bread & butter cars from Ford or Vauxhall.

[pb63]

What a bucket of sh*te....

[Motorrad]

I like it. Don't really know why but I like it. This example looks like too much of a shed to me though.

[hill79]

103k on a 25 year old car constitutes 'hard use'? really?

[Jellymonster]

my mum had a '91 MG maestro in british racing green.. she use to drive me to school in it every morning. it went like stink and was a great car for the money. the electrics went a bit dodgy towards the end but in its day, it was a great car

[freakynessless]

How deep was the barrel scraped to find this???

[Balmoral Green]

LJK Setright used to eulogise about the merits of the MG Maestro too, and if it was good enough for him...

[zakelwe]

BMW Exec "Steve, you have been driving our M3 racers for a while, ve are thinking of buying Austin Rover, do you think it is a good idea?

Steve: " Oh yes, I remember the Montego Turbo. It had power just where you wanted it, also it went like a bat out of hell. I took Ian Ogilvy for a ride in it once, he wanted to know all the facts and figures. He was bloody obsessive about it to be honest, mpg at 70, 0 to 43mph, you name it.

BMW Exec: " Any of ze downsides?"

Steve: "Well you did tend to end up sounding like Alan Partridge driving around in the Rover 100. It was something to do with the chemicals used to give the new car smell to the velour seats."

BMW Exec : Excellent, we will buy the company. We will reintroduce the Mini again, make it twice as big and call it the Maxi"

Andy

PS The MG Meastro did handle well, very neutral and more forgiving than the French counterparts, it also had a gutsy engine. You wouldn't call it a looker though would you?

[2fster]

hill79 said:

103k on a 25 year old car constitutes 'hard use'? really?

Daren't think what the 97k on my 8 year old car constitutes then!

[anonymous-user]

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?

Talk about missing the point!!!!

[Nickellarse]

Shocking shedding! Aweful car from an awful company. May it rest in pieces.

[Mark Wibble]

Balmoral Green said:

...I was lapping Castle Combe faster than the 205 in my Montego estate.

Wow, had a big boot too!

Edited by Mark Wibble on Friday 8th October 13:24

[300bhp/ton]

SVX said:

Love it! Anyone have any idea how much scope there is for upping the boost on this engine?

Plenty, but would need supporting mods like an engine rebuild if you go crazy.

I've not looked for years, but there used to be a firm that specialised in tuning these. Will have to see if they still exist.

[MG511]

Those seats must be from a VDP, and the wheels from a non turbo. My dad had a Montego, once came home from France on an AA low loader!

[leon9191]

My Granny had a MG Maestro when I was a boy. She didnt like it only keeping it a couple of monthsn and very quickly going back to Nissan Blue birds.

love this car might even be tempted if it was a Maestro.

[R60EST]

DannyVTS said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

There we go!

It seems he was quite happy to get it back, wonder why hes selling so soon

Edited by DannyVTS on Friday 8th October 13:05

I recognised the reg from that thread too. I don't think he's selling it . I could be wrong but I'd say the advert linked in the article is old enough for it to be him ,Meastego, that has recently bought it . If so bit of a fail for SOTW , and I'm surprised none of the team spotted it was already alive and well in the forum

[300bhp/ton]

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.

I'd have to disagree, my 2.0 EFI was more fun than my bro's Celica 2.0 GT and quicker than a mates 2.9 V6 XR4x4i.

Good steering feel (if a bit weighty), fairly well balanced, typical FWD understeer and it did lean a bit, but you could throw it about and it felt nimble. Grunty 2.0 litre engine and a close ratio gearbox, I'd even claim the brakes were ok too.

[2fster]

R60EST said:

DannyVTS said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

There we go!

It seems he was quite happy to get it back, wonder why hes selling so soon

Edited by DannyVTS on Friday 8th October 13:05

I recognised the reg from that thread too. I don't think he's selling it . I could be wrong but I'd say the advert linked in the article is old enough for it to be him ,Meastego, that has recently bought it . If so bit of a fail for SOTW , and I'm surprised none of the team spotted it was already alive and well in the forum

That's my assumption too.