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I had the first MG Maestro which had a terrible 1,6 engine that self destructed on me and proved impossible to find a replacement for (in 1992)

I thought it was Jeff Epstein

God they were terrible cars

The turbo lag made this car a death machine. Jeremy has no idea what he's talking about!

I taxi'd in a 2.0 diesel , brilliant car .. no niceties , just a robust , economical work horse , believe theuvhad a perkins diesel engine , would have loved an mg version

It looks a lot better in 144p than it did in real life back in the '80's.

This carr was the unassuming beast

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They've re-badged it, you fool!

I had a white 2.0 efi on an E plate, awful car. Remember it had torque but revved out early.

Driven loads of them. Torque steer was horrendous. Great fun though.

With a turbo derivative of the old BMC A series engine in situ..... Originally fitted to the Austin A30 and the Morris Minor from 1951, the original base engine went through many development stages before finally ending up with the 1275 turbo in the MG Metro from 1983 to1989. The A series engine had quite a history from 1951 to 2000. As a manufacturer, you don't replace engines very often, you upgrade and improve them.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_A-series_engine

Ah, this reminds me of my MG Montego Turbo named Spot ... so called because there were still bits of white paint showing through the rust. Best car I ever had.

Who cares what this IGNORANT "Bean head" w@~ker thinks.. I love this car.

I think it was in Car magazine that I read their road test for the MG 2.0efi. They wrote if I recall correctly, "It is not as good as a Golf GTi, but then nor is the Golf GTi". That was of course the problem, the Golf GTi had a near mythological status with the car buying public.

Yes fast but they were shit like the montego, a cossie was in a different class

I wanted one simply because it 'talked' like K.I.T.T. Brilliant car. 🥰

Real old school clarkson here loved it

Maestro oh yeah. Was that a car. Not truly loved and totally forgotten

It would do nought to sixty wance........and then it'd blow ap.

now mgs are chinese crap

A bit less hot…I had the MG Maestro 2.0i for a couple of years. It was no Golf GTi or Peugeot 306 1.9 rocket, but it did have a surprisingly good kick once the tach was wound up. Eye opening for a mere Austin Maestro! Sadly reliability was not its strong point!

It’s fun when you started stripping Maestro gearboxes / axles and start finding all those Volkswagen logos cast into parts…

I had one white mg non turbo it was ok drove ok wish a was back in the 80s again better times 😅

If there is anyone out there who is wondering why the Cowley works went under. Watch this.

Back when the country was on the up.

Friend had one, it was quick but rusted quicker. A bit like a montego hire car I had 1,100 miles and rusting inside the boot

The only one worth having in the 80's was the Renault 5 GT Turbo.

size of the windows...you could see out!!

The Maestro and practically all other British cars simply became extremely unfashionable in the 90s and their true worth was overlooked. I had several Metros including an MG and two Rovers (214 and 416) overall I thoroughly enjoyed owning and driving them, it’s really sad the British motor industry went the way it did.

Always a good-looking car. This is really exceptional, though!

sexy car

Actually, this is a new video of the modern Lada factory

I believe BMW called Rover the "English Patient" !

No disrespect to anyone in the video . but that kind of loafing around attitude is synonymous for lack of attention to detail and quality and is due to poor management and was probably a big factor in the downfall of Rover , I can assure anyone that this behaviour would not be tolerated in any auto assembly plant these days.., .. i remember around 1997 a supplier Quality Engineer from Land Rover called Syd Eccles used to regularly grill me and my firm for poor quality... ironic isn't it .

After watching this, go watch BMW or Mercedes build a car. The problem of why we have no British car industry will answer itself.

Not a single car finished or moved.

this car was way ahead of its time, should have been in the scrap bin before it was built!

I can safely say I defnitely spotted a Maestro.

Loved the 'boxy' shape of the Maestro compared to the competion in the 80s and early 90s. Hated all those Brava's, Astra's, 205s, Clio's and Escort's which were just different ugly rust buckets at the end of the day.

14.14 Got to have Chalky in there.

I hardly see any Austin/Rover Montego cars 🚗 🚘 🚙 on the roads 🛣️ everyday is because they must be in the scrapyard. 👍

What a great set of lads all seem to enjoy a laugh at work, not always the case nowadays.

Sad to see, all those different lives. Not saying there weren’t a number factors that led to this inevitability, but very little large British manufacturing left in the numbers who work at large factories. These sorts of places had social clubs, football teams, Christmas parties and the and other things that made them an integral part of the community which meant many workers socialised and worked together.

The very worst car production ever, a bloody disgrace. Ruined the UK car production for ever. All we do now is assemble somebody elses product. Management without a clue and unions running riot, thieving wholesale and "cars" assembled anyhow.

RIP DAD !

I have a Maestro 😊 16. LX Auto in two-tone paint.

People just seemed so happy back then. Unionised to fuck but hard grafting and could support their families. Always thought the unions were the problem, not the workers

0:44 Vin! What was his surname?

Oh my goodness! do you have any recent information on this beautiful piece? I would love to borrow the blue Maestro to make a copy of it, i really love the Maestro's as my first ever car was a 1600L then i had two others after including the MG 2.0 EFI.