ahh the 80's when times were better and not so much of today's bullshit to contend with!!!Bliss :)
@martiniv8924
3 жыл бұрын
Spot on 👍🏻
@EugVR6
3 жыл бұрын
100%, but I still preferred the 90's.
@fasthracing
3 жыл бұрын
agreed
@seanwheeldon9315
3 жыл бұрын
👊👊👊
@bozzy-101
3 жыл бұрын
Apart from the part where Steve Soper said the car shares some characteristics with a racing car.
@Mr_Bean_Stalk
3 жыл бұрын
Remember this time well, wish I could go back.
@spencer19731
9 жыл бұрын
8.30.......love the tassled loafers so loved by sales reps of the era. Funny, now they are en vogue again, except they are worn by fashion conscious young women!
@marcdavey
2 жыл бұрын
My dad use to have one of these, pretty quick for it's time
@MrClassiccarenthusia
7 жыл бұрын
Wow! I mean, the car might not be much to look at, but for the time those performance stats were quite impressive, especially for a four door saloon! Also, you got a bloody Swiss watch, a gift, a full tank of petrol and the sales person who sold it to you hand delivered it! WOW! My neighbour bought a reasonably high end Mercedes SUV about a year ago, must have cost between £40K ~ £50K, and it was dropped off by a bloke in a lorry who barely spoke any English, and left the car in the middle of the road! LOL And no, it didn't have a full tank, but enough for him to get down to Shell around the corner, highly doubt he got a watch with it either :D
@williamwoods8022
6 жыл бұрын
haarp2012 - Actually you THICKO - ALL cars rusted bad back then except if they were rustproofed from new or if you were like me and rustproofed your car yourself. I also serviced and looked after my own cars and all of my cars were very reliable including my 1978 Morris Marina 1.8HL, 1980 Austin Allegro 1750 Equipe and 1983, Austin Mini Mayfair. The British are very lazy and penny pinchers who do not like spending money on servicing their cars or even trying to do things for themselves and then they blame their cars/manufacturers for their cars problems. British Leyland cars were NO different to any of the other manufacturers back then - Ford and Vauxhall were just as bad/good depending on the owner/garage looking after them. Montegos and Maestros had much thicker sills on them compared to all their rivals but it did not stop them rusting the same if they were not rustproofed - I know this because I worked in a garage back then and we were amazed at the difference in thickness to the other cars when replacing the sills. You always find the comments under videos of BL etc cars full of THICKOS spouting the drivel that they have been told second hand by other THICKOS who heard from THICKO Journalists etc - the same Journalists that are conning and brainwashing the THICKO public that there are IMAGINARY "terrorists" everywhere and that the country is drowning in totally FAKE Debt/Austerity etc. Google Paisley Expressions and the Jesus, Hitler and Wizard of Oz post on there just now exposing how you are all being suckered big time.
@jtsotherone
6 жыл бұрын
Absolute rubbish, Scandinavian cars of the same age rusted far less. The BL cars were absolutely shocking.
@Gavichap
5 жыл бұрын
@@williamwoods8022 Sorry Sir, but BL should have rustproofed them on the assembly line, not leave the task to their customers! And anyhow any half-decent car company would have fixed the well-known rust-prone areas such as sills and wheelarches within two years from car introduction. They did absolutely nothing and kept on paying huge warranty repair costs. Insane. BL was an unmanageable behemoth worse than an Italian Ministero, and dug its own grave. Thanks.
@GeorgeAusters
3 жыл бұрын
Wonder if this car was made in Cov
@bradthemes1911
3 жыл бұрын
They don’t tell you that it could be stolen in less than 2 minutes 🤣
@davidjackson-royle9965
3 жыл бұрын
Great car but back in the 80's the body used to rust to soon. ( wish they were around today easy to work on and nice to drive )
@spanishpeaches2930
3 жыл бұрын
Man, I miss the Eighties so much I miss the seventies too. I thought I'd get old and be happy, unfortunately not so.
@Vanadeo
3 жыл бұрын
Especially now with all this COVID crap just to make it even more miserable.
@wightangel
3 жыл бұрын
Yes I thought that with age would come happiness but all I find myself yearning for is times gone by.
@Deeky76
3 жыл бұрын
I don't think any of us are 😂
@chriso8485
3 жыл бұрын
Seeing London in the 1980s made me want to cry. A cleaner, calmer, cheaper and more civilised place.
@thomaswilliams4546
3 жыл бұрын
Take it you missed the London riots in the 80s 😂😂
@chriso8485
3 жыл бұрын
@@thomaswilliams4546 Can't characterise a whole city because that.
@julianlawrence-ball2279
3 жыл бұрын
It was a filthy shithole
@chriso8485
3 жыл бұрын
@ROJ54321 Where a three bedroom terraced house in the East End is worth almost £700,000. Ridiculous
@mark.e.p
3 жыл бұрын
I moved to London in 1981 stayed for 20 years, glad l moved out. It's a shit hole now.
@Bluetoothedshark
3 жыл бұрын
It's easy to look back through rose tinted glasses, in the 80s and 90s most people had next to nothing, no internet and a BMW or Merc was a rare sight on the road, but it felt like you had a future, a house cost £20,000 not £200,000 and a religious extremist was someone who gave the kids too much chocolate at Easter.
@flustered1939
3 ай бұрын
I miss those days
@Mytim34
7 жыл бұрын
This video is an amazing snapshot of Britain nearly 40 years ago. Great!
@TheJamie6666
5 жыл бұрын
30 years ago you mean
@markellis4229
4 жыл бұрын
1980 is 40 years ago
@glpilpi6209
3 жыл бұрын
B reg was August 1984 to August 1985.
@martf8014
3 жыл бұрын
@@markellis4229 This wasn't 1980 though was it you fool.
@markellis4229
3 жыл бұрын
@@martf8014 Who rattled your cage Lol 😂
@scook2003
7 жыл бұрын
My gosh after seeing this I'm definitely going to need a cup of tea.
@toadinthehole8085
5 жыл бұрын
As well as bourbon biscuits
@yurigagarin4974
6 жыл бұрын
the dealer redlines it all the way to the customers house..
@Alexander_l322
5 жыл бұрын
That's what they do lol, give it a good 'test'. It's not my new car...
@-spenab9580
4 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@paulcoultard1569
Жыл бұрын
Nothing but memories of the British car manufacturers well done to everybody for buying German cars.
@T16MGJ
Жыл бұрын
Enjoyed that blast from the past. Preferred the early cars with the herringbone patterned material seats. Some of the most comfortable seats I've ever used for long trips. Serial MG Montego Turbo and Maestro Turbo owner here. One time I had seven Montego Turbos, got images of them all. What I did not have was a large barn or I'd still have them. Now only own one. A low mileage very early MK1 in Silver Leaf. Was my daily driver until I stopped using it twenty years ago. Turned down many offers for it. Safely tucked away in my garage. My daily drivers now being other MG saloons. MG ZT / ZT-T Petrol 1.8T Turbos and my Sunday and high days car another MG ZT Saloon with a Mustang V8. Puzzled so many here mention torque steer. When properly set up, none of mine did that. I kept the best one but the fastest one had some suspension and brake mods in previous ownership. One thing they skimped on was the size of the Coolant Radiator. About two thirds the size of the one in the MG EFi. That size reduction to allow two large intercooler pipes to pass at the side. I removed the larger brass ( not plastic ) side tank radiator from a breaker yard MG Montego EFi and had a custom Triple Core radiator made up using those metal side tanks which increased the coolant volume of the Radiator. That enabled the car to be cruised all day long well into three figures with so called superior cars like Mercedes struggling to keep up and failing to do so. Best £100 I ever spent on a modification. That car still exists in enthusiast ownership. My sons and their car mad friends constantly ask me to put mine back on the road and take it to shows. Despite what all the Clarkson wannabees would have you believe, they were far better cars than their opinions of them. Great cars and great memories. Could tell you many more stories like those I rescued from the dark. dank depths of the leafy Forest of Dean. One became my reliable daily driver. It came with Tow Bar and electrics. Used to rescue work colleagues' cars because they knew I had a twin axle braked trailer. With a colleague's Toyota loaded on the trailer, driving smoothly those cars would return mid-30s mpg towing a loaded trailer. Not a mistake, careful fuel checks later confirmed those consumption figures. That Toyota needed a replacement engine. Driving using that addictive boost without a trailer, mid teens mpg not unknown. Those O-Series engines in all their forms were bullet proof provided maintained properly. Some well over 200,000 miles and still running smooth. Some used as taxis or workhorses even higher mileages. My example a mere 74,000. Probably worth more now than my Mustang V8 MG. Yes, no rose tinteds involved, those 1980s were indeed great days and their cars many gone forever but, not forgotten.
@df9834
7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely classic, what I give for a run in one of those now! Had 3 mg metro turbos and loved them.
@tomburley
7 жыл бұрын
Loved mine - had it boost modified so I could turn it up to 200hp. Put that to the front wheels and you felt the torque steer but man it was quick from a standing start - not to mention that mid range pull made overtaking a breeze. Found it very reliable too - never had a problem.
@simost2566
3 жыл бұрын
So good that Soper ended up selling BMWs 😂
@MrKingskim
10 жыл бұрын
I had a 1986 turbo for 5 years never let me down had it running 200bhp lowered handled superb and very quick , plenty of torque steer but that just added to the fun
@TheStwat
8 жыл бұрын
LMAO. I love how Steve Soper answered the questions on the brakes and steering like a true politician. Mine had the worst torque steer of any car I have ever driven and the brakes were hopeless and faded in no time at all when on a blast. Having said that, I fucking loved the car and miss it dearly. So much fun.
@risk0systemsuk171
3 жыл бұрын
And it danced around like a ballerina too. It felt so much faster than the 7.4 secs they said. Went through a few back in the day.
@Malpriorvids
3 жыл бұрын
@@risk0systemsuk171 that’s because you had to wait a full 4 seconds for the turbo to kick in. Once on song though, not much could keep up.
@davesouthey2619
3 жыл бұрын
Yep the steering was pretty sketchy but I would love to have another to play with
@straightpipediesel
3 жыл бұрын
They even warned you about the torque steer at 7:47. Definitely politician speak!
@neilthompson3017
Жыл бұрын
Brakes were terrible but ace car
@paulobrien7557
5 жыл бұрын
Had a Rover Montego 2.0 Turbo Diesel Estate DLX . Best .reliable comfy car I ever had . Wish I still had it.
@shootmcrunfast
5 жыл бұрын
Whenever I speak to someone called Steve I always make a point of saying Steve in every sentence.
@1973miniclubman
3 жыл бұрын
Radio 1 😂🔥
@raychambers3646
3 жыл бұрын
I call them steve even if it's not Steve.
@Steve-nu8xt
3 жыл бұрын
Difficult to believe it is a road car Body work nearly touching the ground
@simonnelson7770
6 жыл бұрын
That was one of the most cringe worthy things I've ever seen, I just kept seeing Alan Partridge 😂😂
@seamusolunacy
5 жыл бұрын
I'm not driving a mini metro... I'm not driving a min metro!
@xantiaman
4 жыл бұрын
They rebadged it you fool 😂
@sammygirlie345
3 жыл бұрын
Steve steve Steve STEVE
@reglard
10 жыл бұрын
Dam things used torque steer themselves into the nearest hedge.
@superjiff1
4 жыл бұрын
Roy H and the skinny steering wheel was murder to hang onto!! I went straight over a roundabout in my old mans when it refused to turn
@TheMentalblockrock
4 жыл бұрын
Only if you're a bad driver!
@gemspotting6252
4 жыл бұрын
They were never that bad - they were fast as hell though
@helenloughton2418
7 жыл бұрын
had a mg Montero efi.really good car comfy .reliable never let me down sold it with 128.000 miles .unlike the golf I traded for pile of crap never touch a very again.
@mudachuka12345
3 жыл бұрын
VW and Audi overpriced unreliable junk
@Mark.Cleworth
3 жыл бұрын
@@mudachuka12345 Not really. My A4 3.0 V6 tdi is a quality car. Although I won't buy an Audi again as I associate the brand with total wankers who can't drive. Obviously I'm not one of them because I have both HGV licences,😄😄😇.
@W42PZ
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone will say anything if you’re paid or sponsored!
@ewaf88
7 жыл бұрын
Nice to see The Saint - taken for a ride.
@tatata1543
3 жыл бұрын
Alan Partridge’s first car was a montego. Not a lot of people know that.
@Jonathan-A
2 жыл бұрын
"101%" - Classic BS.
@alanwareham7391
5 жыл бұрын
Speak as you find I was loaned a 2 litre turbo while my car was in for a service, and all I can say it was one hell of a motor and I think that is was more than capable of taking on any thing in the same class made in Europe ( and before any one tries to take the pxss .i was a front line Ambulance man for 32 years driving both Ambulances and first response cars ,and so I do Know how to drive at speed)
@TrippyNoodles
3 жыл бұрын
“Not my words, but the words of Top Gear magazine!”
@richdelgado3405
6 жыл бұрын
That gift pack list should have ended with “...and 5 complimentary tows to the nearest Rover dealership.”
@darylsims4407
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading the video. I feel that they could have had an epic car with this one if they just made them with galvanised steel.
@kevinblaylock391
3 жыл бұрын
Nothing but good memories of this car, wish I still owned one! Better times then in so many ways! 👍
@navigator100group2
4 жыл бұрын
Had one it was bloody awesome ex British Leyland test vehicle. Number of times I outmatched so called performance cars. Regarding top speed, my was very early version. I personally had mine up to 155 MPH. It would only stop when you chickened out. The odometer was against backside of the zero stop and rev counter was clocking just shy of 6500rpm. It was stolen when it had 99,000 miles on the clock.
@annoyin_cnt291
3 жыл бұрын
How cools that a free watch and MG key fobs :)
@Robbie7441
7 жыл бұрын
the good old days brought a smile .thank you
@colincrawford6612
4 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh, memories. I had one. Was stolen 3 times, by the same toe rags.
@diegestive4167
3 жыл бұрын
Did they bring it back when they’d finished?
@simondavies4603
3 жыл бұрын
Anything with mildly enhanced performance got stolen in the 80’s. Saturday and Sunday mornings in the countryside were spent spotting stolen and sometimes burnt out hot hatches. The manufacturer attitude to anti theft security was cynical: a screwdriver was all that was required to access and drive away your pride and joy.
@neilt7145
3 жыл бұрын
@@simondavies4603 Screwdriver and a 1ft length of Scaffold was all that was required.. Montego MG especially the Turbo was the ram raiders car of choice back in the day because you could pop the boot from the drivers seat.
@manofweed1
3 жыл бұрын
It's amazing to think that these 'good old days' were really not THAT long ago. Punk had already come and gone. But how different it all seems now.
@eddd101
6 жыл бұрын
4:16 drive around that track with frightening body roll and the throw on the gearbox about a mile long, Then steve soper say " feels like a racing car" priceless !
@MavAuto-Pete
4 жыл бұрын
It was so slobby and its handling and bounced about how can you say that it handles well
@allenmontrasio8962
4 жыл бұрын
To be fair, all cars rolled in the '80s
@Jimbo8012
4 жыл бұрын
@@allenmontrasio8962 - Exactly. High profile, skinny tyres are to blame. Can't have been more than 195's. However, was in one about 30 years ago as a kid and I seemed to remember that the ride was nice.
@raftonpounder6696
3 жыл бұрын
@@allenmontrasio8962 XRs didn’t. 205 GTis didn’t. Golf GTis didn’t. Need I go on?
@ep1929
3 жыл бұрын
@@raftonpounder6696 xr3i / rs turbo's had excellent handling. They were way ahead of their time, the body rot let them down though. Volkswagen seemed to have solved the rust problem by 1980.
@Campaj1
10 жыл бұрын
7:47 what you actually mean is it has RIDICULOUS TORQUE STEER
@cadillac9000
5 жыл бұрын
8:30 - Nice shoes! haha
@TheLRider
3 жыл бұрын
What does that mean? I had one of these cars ant it wasn't a problem whatsoever that I can recall. Loved it.
@mat12128
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheLRider I had one and i do remember it being a bit of an issue out of a corner under acceleration in lower gears
@stuartliddle7228
3 жыл бұрын
looks right enough, and a gift for the ladies. I'll have one.
@rockinginafreeworld3256
3 жыл бұрын
When all you want is a time machine to take you back to the good old days.
@W42PZ
3 жыл бұрын
Steve Soper, great driver but not the sharpest tool in the box!
@daveschofield8231
3 жыл бұрын
Similar characteristics to a racing car.my arse, this car was a catastrophic failure.
@roberttill3787
3 жыл бұрын
Dave, the standard car was. My brother had a maestro 2.0l turbo, and it was like shit off a shovel. I kid you not, unless you have driven one you just dont know. The 2.0 l turbo blew the smaller engine versions into the weeds.
@mat12128
3 жыл бұрын
@@roberttill3787 I had one too and it was not dynamically great but that acceleration was incredible back then
@tonypasby8287
5 жыл бұрын
I've got a 26 year old Toyota Corolla 1993 L reg, it's got 145,000 miles on the clock, not a single a sign of any rust anywhere, the 1.6 petrol engine sounds as sweet as when it left the factory. Its just a fact of the matter, the Japanese design and manufacture cars to last and last and last. I understand the quality on Toyota cars since starting production in Britain has gone downhill,, but the one's "Made in Japan" were overly engineered cars designed and engineered to last 30/35 years provided you took care of them and got them serviced and maintained as per Toyota schedules. People say the Japanese destroyed the British car industry, but it was the Brits who destroyed the British car industry, by producing junk like this, my old man had a Montego in the early nineties, at 4 years old it was starting to Rust as if it was a 40 year old car. Absolutely pants was the British car industry. Yes it was sad so many people, good people lost their jobs, but it was inevitable, you just couldn't keep producing absolutely poorly designed and shockingly low quality rust bucket cars and expect to keep afloat, especially in the face of vastly superior build quality and reliable Japanese cars.
@ep1929
3 жыл бұрын
I had a 1997 corolla, it was a vin number starting "J" meaning it was made in Japan. The car was bulletproof, only needed to replace battery in 7 years.
@michaelrichards7429
5 жыл бұрын
5:56 I think the temperature gauge is heading into the red, which is why they finish at the track. Could be the head gasket.
@davesouthey2619
3 жыл бұрын
Twice my head gasket went it also burned through the rubber oil return pipe from turbo to sump dumped all the oil on the road a car driven by a work colleague done a 360 behind he reckoned it was a miracle that I'd missed the oil on the road😜😜
@adjenkinsuk
5 жыл бұрын
It's the voice of the guy doing the voice-over that has me hearing "......and it has Don't Panic on the cover, in large friendly letters". 😄
@restofthejunk01
5 жыл бұрын
I think you could be right
@simonjohnhinton1938
9 жыл бұрын
I remember my dad having a 1990 montego 2.0 gti and it was quite a good car, quiet, refined and not a patch of rust. Before that he had a rover sd1 3500v8 SE 5 speed manual that had a drink problem lol.
@ant647448336
Жыл бұрын
My father had the automatic SD1 V8. Loved the car, but didn't love the fuel consumption. He borrowed a Ford Granada diesel and could make the trip to and from Scotland on a tank, whereas the SD1 had to be refilled 3 times haha.
@GWLAD
10 жыл бұрын
bloody wonderful video if only the government helped us a bit more with our motor industry autin rover would still be alive
@StanleyKubick1
7 жыл бұрын
an industry that can't sustain itself shouldn't be bailed out with tax money
@leejohnson3209
7 жыл бұрын
But we spent £1.162 trillion bailing out failed banks.
@StanleyKubick1
7 жыл бұрын
do the word "too big to fail" mean anything to you? also, the bank bailout is globally regarded a huge failure
@leejohnson3209
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, too big to fail means bullshit to me. They should have been nationalised or broken up. It really takes this piss when the same government could put a fraction of our money into saving jobs in manufacturing. It's a no brainer when it can save the public in the long run. One rule for the greedy bankers another for the workers in the mills and factories.
@StanleyKubick1
7 жыл бұрын
Here in Iceland, we nationalised the banks to horrible results. Worked fine at first, but then the bank execs started paying themselves excuberant bonuses again.
@AsherPiesman
10 жыл бұрын
The best part was at 1:35 with the SD1 in the background. The styling on the Montego is uninteresting, even with MG badges and a sporting paint job I don’t dream of owning one like I do an SD1, even with build quality issues etc.
@terra2805
7 жыл бұрын
fagAshLil1234 The 3.5 V8 SD1 is an absolute monster. You tune one of those or turbo it and not much will keep up on a straight road even today! lol.
@blade0954
8 жыл бұрын
I had a 2 litre efi reg no F231HBW,sold it with over 100,000 on the clock,great to drive
@dopiaza2006
3 жыл бұрын
We had a 1,6 mayfair D535WMY and a 2.0 vanden plas E411FGX
@hartoz
6 жыл бұрын
I had one, it was rubbish LOL. I also had the Turbo Deisel version, and that was a way better car. The O series engine didn't respond well to turbo charging. Later I had a Rover 620TI with the 2.0 T series Turbo engine, this was Way way way better than the Montego Turbo.
@mat12128
3 жыл бұрын
Same, i had an mg turbo but swapped it for a 93 220 gti turbo which was faster but even worse. I remember reading that the 620ti was a more well sorted drive
@simonjohnhinton1938
3 жыл бұрын
my father had a rover montego 2.0 gti that was quite nippy but the MG turbo was in league of its own.
@darrenlucas2768
5 жыл бұрын
These cars were so light....about the same as a modern fiat 500, I owned one back in 1989 ,build quality was shocking, as was handling but Jesus they were fast....I had a guy in a V8 Ferrari come to over take me, as he did I nailed it and he was next to me in shock as I held,held,held and he had to pull back in, no word of a lie and one of my greatest driving memories..... epic
@robertpetch5182
Жыл бұрын
I remember getting stopped in my 1990 MG EFi by the Police around 1996/7, I started shouting at the copper, why have you stopped me? I wasn't speeding, my lights all work, my tyres are good etc. He replied, sorry son but Northumbria Police got one of the first MG Turbo Police demonstrators back in 1984 and I was assigned it. I loved it! I just wanted to look at your car. I ended up letting him have a drive of it 🤣🤣
@MSJChem
4 жыл бұрын
What an excellent video. I had a MG Maestro 2.0 EFI back in the day. It kept breaking down but was pretty quick at the time.
@gb46phk
3 жыл бұрын
I had a black one C494HOV. Loved it.
@jameslatimer1432
3 жыл бұрын
They was good cars
@skunksrus007
5 жыл бұрын
Came with a 30 day rust corrosion warranty.. lol
@ep1929
3 жыл бұрын
The rear arches were the first part to start the slow death of corrosion.
@MavAuto-Pete
4 жыл бұрын
You got to feel sorry for the poor racing driver because he was probably paid to say all that even though he didn't want to about the Montego turbo but it was Fast and it's day and it did look better than the standard
@TheLRider
3 жыл бұрын
I had one as a company car same red and same upholstery. Absolute belter of a car. Overtaking on motorways was a hoot. If you were coming up behind somebody in the outside lane and had to slow down then you just dipped the clutch pick up the revs and let the clutch in again giving you max power at 70 mph and off it went like a rocket.
@rickerbyct
Жыл бұрын
And when you put your foot down it automatically changed lane!
@leedstown
11 ай бұрын
so much suspension travel on cornering
@brutonstreettailor4570
3 ай бұрын
Mate of mine traded his Capri for one of these, was a quick car but as soon as it hit a corner it was leaning a bit much if i remember correctly, quicker than my Opel Manta Gte though.
@andythorpe8639
3 жыл бұрын
1987 prices new : Montego Turbo £11K ; E30 M3 £29K... Got to Monte Carlo in the Montego that year in less than a day; 4-up plus luggage; cruising at 120mph... Yes, torque steer and 3rd gear wheel spin 👍 - or you could go for a Capri / Sierra 2.8i and exit off backwards thru a hedge via wild oversteer ?
@iancropper4952
5 жыл бұрын
I loved the turbo, pity I didn't own it, it was the Financial Director's. Still at least I tried it 😁
@no1flash
4 ай бұрын
Drove from Woodford Green in Essex to Devon in my E reg mg montego turbo back in 1997, fun driving 😊
@marsupialpianist1450
3 ай бұрын
Such optimism ❤
@FatherJack-b1u
5 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine going back in time with a similar performance car of today - minds would be totally blown!
@TheMentalblockrock
4 жыл бұрын
modern performance cars a FAR too fast.
@limpet7r63
3 жыл бұрын
And very easy to drive. They do everything for you. No skill needed.
@neilt7145
3 жыл бұрын
Surprised it got a lap in without rusting to death. Ask yourself why aren't there many Montego and Maestro on the road these days.
@hawk194
3 жыл бұрын
Great video. With the Saint too.
@mattbod
3 жыл бұрын
I would have gone for the Maestro Turbo: bloody quick.
@louis-pierretalbot9151
5 ай бұрын
As a Talbot enthousiast on the mainland really via the Chrysler Alpine there has allways been somekind of an connection to the british car products. Sadly though over here those were rarely seen over here. Well that's too bad really since british manufacturers had their compatetives really like this magnifficent MG Montego Turbo. Great car, great perfomance and nice design and for a familycar really. Thankyou for the lovely video.
@barbelmeister
4 ай бұрын
Watched this in 2024 - 10 years after it was first posted and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. Much better than some of the stuff on TV! A huge Thank-You!
@adivarso8175
3 жыл бұрын
Is that Ian ogilvy aka The saint ?
@cotswoldclassiccarrestorat8396
5 жыл бұрын
We used to race a MG Maestro Turbo at Castle combe in the saloon car championship, Managed over 400BHP (pump petrol, fuel injected Motec ECU Big valved high compression steel bottom end) out of the 8v motor, anyone disbelieving speak to Keith at Dialynx the Audi tuning specialist who we raced against as we did over take his well tuned turbo A4. These cars got their faults like they all have but the torque of the 8v when the turbo kicks in intoxicating! Its interesting to note that all the hot hatches from the 1980's prices are rising fast.
@nickclark6001
4 жыл бұрын
I know I saw you , and Keith Murray's reign lasted quite a while in that red car 😆 The MG was pretty wayward though,the Volvo 244 turbo won the European Touring Car Championship with its 400 bhp on standard engine components, 5 years before the MG came out, fuel injection of course as standard. It also won the Bathurst 1000, Great seeing it pass the V12 Jag up the hill ! There is one of these historic volvo ETCC cars for sale at the moment @ £350,000
@chrishammond7079
3 жыл бұрын
Yes happy memories back in the eighties being a Austin Rover salesman in 1985 I can relate to the launch of this model so excited with my 1.6 HL in Moonraker Blue
@JakobusVdL
3 жыл бұрын
I wonder what Soper really thought....
@Jimbo8012
4 жыл бұрын
Only 5 of these left on UK roads. :-(
@mikewhiles4635
5 жыл бұрын
Pride of Longbridge on today! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@matty6848
3 жыл бұрын
Sadly no more😒
@darrenridgwell6546
Жыл бұрын
Compared to the italian and German cars available in this category at the time it was crap in every way.;
@valicourt
3 жыл бұрын
You must be 101% up to date on your maths skills.
@l11ppo
3 жыл бұрын
I never thought I’d see Steve Soper driving Alejandro Sosa around London.
@jemimallah2591
Жыл бұрын
(on the phone to ARG's marketing director) "I TOLD YOU A LONG TIME AGO YOU LITTLE FUCKING MONKEY, NOT TO PUT ME IN ANYTHING YOU'VE FITTED A TURBO TO!"
@bunning63
8 жыл бұрын
Drove one back in the early ninties, was owned by a car dealer. He thrashed it, never broke down. He had been quite anti British cars prior to it. Knew of another one that had been modified for the track, blew everything away on the day I saw it. Group of Evo/WRX enthusiasts were looking it over in the pits puzzled by the carb and single OHC?. Plenty of torque.
@doozydave5639
6 жыл бұрын
bunning63 v
@nothere7300
5 жыл бұрын
Much of the aftermarket tuning industry is utter tosh. I worked in ARG experimental on the test beds, We could get loadsa power without billy bullshit straight through exhausts or pointless polishing of heads.
@vinorob
6 ай бұрын
I had one of these in the late 80's . Loved it
@billybhoy32
3 жыл бұрын
Possibly the most boring sounding people I have ever heard.
@WasabiBoyNZ
10 жыл бұрын
I had a mint MG Montego 2.0 Litre Turbo back in....late 1980's and the performance was stella (in the day) to easy to dismiss now days.
@woodbine66
6 жыл бұрын
Stellar? Who was stella?
@benzobrimzs
3 жыл бұрын
@@woodbine66 i think it's a lager
@TheFairway8
3 жыл бұрын
Very quick even by todays standards for a 4 door saloon
@Deeky76
3 жыл бұрын
@@benzobrimzs Or could be a new strain of Corona virus 😂
@MeTube3
3 жыл бұрын
My boss had one, I crashed it. I parked it with the damage hidden and he drove off without noticing. Next day he was complaining someone had damaged his car last night in the pub car park :)
@johnreed2198
2 жыл бұрын
i had one the same colour Targa red identical as the one in this video loved my MG TURBO,
@MrHYDRO84
5 жыл бұрын
Soper talking complete bollocks
@kennywilliams7513
3 жыл бұрын
Oh yes... tried to find a video of this mint machine for years... behold!!! I had a 2.0 se in red just like the one in the video. Never had a problem loved the power and handling really comfortable car. Never had a car that comes near this beast. Off the clock on the iom tt mountain section held like a dream. Oooh happy days wish I had it now regretted selling it.
@kingkong81icloud
4 ай бұрын
I used to like the simple dash an indicator storks an horn on side
@kingkong81icloud
4 ай бұрын
I used to like the simple dash an indicator storks an horn on side
@richie6921
4 ай бұрын
One of my dream cars. I would love one of these
@annoyingbstard9407
5 жыл бұрын
Had one as a young man with all the badges removed. A very quick car - too quick for the chassis and drive train but the looks as it beat everything away from the lights was a great feeling.
@billmcclean6986
Жыл бұрын
Everywhere was the same in the 80s
@rogerking7258
6 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately it was built to emulate the quality of a pile of crap. "The image that Austin Rover has so carefully developed over the last few years" - now that is a laugh. More like "the attitude to quality control that Austin Rover has so failed to develop over the last decade or more". Mind you I drove one once where the hose to the wastegate actuator had split. It had monster power (for a few seconds) and so much torque steer that it immediately jumped over to the other side of the road when you floored it. Poor old Steve Soper; selling his integrity for AR's shilling
@victwenty2324
5 жыл бұрын
lol so embarrassin,,, i worked at clarks garage s a YTS panel beater apprentice owned by roger clark the escort rally driver in leicestershire i took apart and rebuilt endless montegos in a porche approved panel shop porche FUCKING HATED the fact there bodyshop was behind a rover forecourt and not actually at the porche showroom so it was metros montegos and porche 944s 911s 928s all in the same shop...all the rovers were all bolt together cars everything was so easy and like lego the turbos were a monster i loved them..the 16v injection rover 200s etc were fast as hell to ...i loved watching old people come in in there cloth hats and driving gloves all full of temselves for driving a rover HOW DUMB THEY WERE having there rust scabs done on warranty LOAD OF OLD STUPID FUKS ..i also new about the mini turbo way before it came out mini era turbo everyone at clarks ripping me to bits calling me bullshitter then one monday i ridwe into work there it is in the showroom mini era turbo I WALKED IN LIKE A BOSS told you so then they hung me in the paint over for a hour
@JNFGambler24-7
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, lying thru his teeth for his pay. Wasn't he assoacited with BMW, or did that occur on the back of this publicity?
@beachlife2968
3 жыл бұрын
The Montego i had drank oil at the same rate as the petrol used haha.
@shootmcrunfast
5 жыл бұрын
I can smell the ashtray from here.
@fasthracing
3 жыл бұрын
Is the "completed claim form" that the customer must sign on hand over of the new car (referred to at the end of the video) just so the customer can get their first warranty claim in before they leave the dealer?
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