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The Maestro turbo! A true last gasp.. Bolt a big turbo to a truly awful car and neglect to upgrade brakes and suspension.
Edit to add that I learnt to drive in a BRG Montego GTI Estate!
hurricane_run-
I had a few maestro and monties, I lowered one MG monty and got the suspension set up properly too. All I did was making the handling worse and give it severe torque steer. The brakes were poor on the injected version and scary on the turbo.
But I will not accept anyone knocking the MG 1600 maestro. ;) Hint is sharing carbs with a ferrari.
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Oh my deities! I was once gifted a Montego turbo as a company car, it cornered like a hippo with a replacement hip and at 6 months old the alleged sunroof showered me with rust. I didn't stay with that company long enough to find out what a 1 year old Montego was like. Still, it was only marginally worse than a Renault 25, which were apparently made entirely of coke cans....
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ColinTheBald
Yeah that was the 'hot' saloon answer to the gti....and it said it all. More cc but not more bhp.
VW/audi had 'clubs' that allowed people to play and develop in their own time and produced things like the golf gti and it was a whole new thing. Jag even had the famous saturday morning club. What did BL have? Internal arguments. But then the metro 6R4 came from that era. One of the most beautifully designed/engineered rally cars IMO. If you get a chance to look at a real one, look how and where they installed the roll cage. So neat that it shows that someone thought and made it so much more space efficient.