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The Montego GTI spent much of its time in the garage being repaired.. Its predecessor, a humble 1.6L estate, was fairly reliable!
Edit.. The GTI had fold up seats in the boot for a proto mpv win
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Those rear facing seats like a volvo?
The gti front seats with the mg badge looked good and were comfortable. Also you hit the nail on the head, they weren't very reliable. Had an early one monty, that was a cat d as the car had a rear bump and needed a rear bumper, lights and boot with the reflective infill. Was given a £10 to take it away, with 3/4 of a tank of fuel.
EDIT: Having access to places to store cars, and being able to weld/straighten damaged cars, family friends in the damaged car storage trade, and people in the trade so the wierd and wonderful and cars that hadn't sold in 90 days came my way. Studying in London and access to free parking meant cars came from the midlands to London and back the other way.
lynx
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....