had a friend who had a maestro - about four times a year the car would stall as he was pulling off the drive. Nothing would enable it to start wthout it being left for around four or five hours when, as if by magic, the fault would clear itself!
Ron
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">the Maestro/ Montego was horrible. No excuses. No exceptions<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
How can you commit such heresy? One day, the MG Maestro turbo will be recognized for the true GTI slaughterer that it is! I remember the M11 police having two, in BRG, which would catch absolutely anything at the time!
I had a maroon 1600 which was probably one of the most versatile cars I ever had- lots of space, comfortable, and a better driver than the Escort or Astra it competed with-and a chain rather than a belt(it was a very early one...)
They have quite a bit in common with the BX as well, mainly the rubbish build quality- on mine, the exhaust studs did'nt line up with the manifold, and the dash creaked like a sailing ship!
A diesel Montego Countryman will still fetch a good price as well, mainly due to the DI engine, noisy but lasts for ever.
How can you commit such heresy? One day, the MG Maestro turbo will be recognized for the true GTI slaughterer that it is! I remember the M11 police having two, in BRG, which would catch absolutely anything at the time!
I had a maroon 1600 which was probably one of the most versatile cars I ever had- lots of space, comfortable, and a better driver than the Escort or Astra it competed with-and a chain rather than a belt(it was a very early one...)
They have quite a bit in common with the BX as well, mainly the rubbish build quality- on mine, the exhaust studs did'nt line up with the manifold, and the dash creaked like a sailing ship!
A diesel Montego Countryman will still fetch a good price as well, mainly due to the DI engine, noisy but lasts for ever.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> Was the Maestro turbo the one where the turbo came in and flexed the bulkhead so that the accelarator peddle moved?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
It wouldn't surprise me!!! I had the common or garden variety, but the turbo was something else entirely........
http://www.pwgy.demon.co.uk/history.htm
It wouldn't surprise me!!! I had the common or garden variety, but the turbo was something else entirely........
http://www.pwgy.demon.co.uk/history.htm
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I remember one of the road tests on the the turbo where it did a stupidly quick 0-60 time and not long after blew up as Rover had clearly whacked the turbo boost up 
Along the lines of the skoda octavia rs's that were doing impressive figures in the road tests which seemed to have accidentally had the 210bhp spec version of the VW 1.8T installed instead of the 180bhp
Along the lines of the skoda octavia rs's that were doing impressive figures in the road tests which seemed to have accidentally had the 210bhp spec version of the VW 1.8T installed instead of the 180bhp -
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As a boy I managed to pick up a partcialy burnt out MG Maestro 1.6 with the Maxi engine and the talking dash board. Any how Dad was a Rover enginer up the secret end of longbridge. Any how long story short it went to longbridge on a Monday night a half burnt out kna**er and 2 weeks later it came back. It looked nice and shinny but not much else. Any how specs were,
1600cc to 1850cc [:D]
twin webbers DC40 to twin webbers quad venturi [:D]
Disk brakes ALL round and up rated hoses, pads etc [:D]
I think you get the picture. Now at the time (1985) the XR3 was the fastest car round by me but this Maestro ate them for breakfast [8D]. It went like no other car I have ever driven for its class. The carb noise was as pure as the old Rover V8's [:D], no cat straight through as God intended. The brakes would stop you in a breath not a pace and the streering was like turning on a penny. thanks Rover at least one good car rolled of those production lines.
1600cc to 1850cc [:D]
twin webbers DC40 to twin webbers quad venturi [:D]
Disk brakes ALL round and up rated hoses, pads etc [:D]
I think you get the picture. Now at the time (1985) the XR3 was the fastest car round by me but this Maestro ate them for breakfast [8D]. It went like no other car I have ever driven for its class. The carb noise was as pure as the old Rover V8's [:D], no cat straight through as God intended. The brakes would stop you in a breath not a pace and the streering was like turning on a penny. thanks Rover at least one good car rolled of those production lines.
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I remember parking up at the beach many years ago and while we were getting the gear out of the car watching theis brand new spotless Maestro EFI turn up and very carefully park. The owner who must have been about retirement age carefully stowed everything inside, set and unset the alarm about 3 times then gout out and fitted a wheel clamp to the thing before leaving it. From what I remember its thief cred was such that he could have safely left it with the keys in it.
Unfortunately I didn't have another padlock to put on the clamp!
jeremy
Unfortunately I didn't have another padlock to put on the clamp!
jeremy