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MG Turbo - The Real Full Monty.

Advantages: Cheap as chips. Fairly comfy. MG's are fast - Turbo is pure power madness!
Disadvantages: Rust. Reliabilty. Handling. Rust. Fuel economy. Did I mention the rust?

Pop quiz: It's some time in the mid 1980's. Dad's not back from foundry yet, mom's having a brand-new Afro-perm down at the 'Curl Up & Dye' salon and your big sister's dancing round in legwarmers to the 'Flashdance' album. You, while channel hopping betwe ...

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Review of Austin Montego 2.0

Don't believe the bad press

Advantages: cheap to buy, good engines,
Disadvantages: rust

The Austin-Rover Montego was another of the British cars of the time that seems destined to be wrote into history as a typical British Leyland failure. However if you scratch beneath the surface it really is significantly different this. As everyone c ...

GraWar 15.07.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Austin Montego 2.0

Not worthy of it's bad press

Advantages: cheap to buy, cheap to run, excelent interior space, predictable handling. Ability to cover huge mileages.
Disadvantages: easily rust. dodgy electrics sometimes. street cred.

Having owned more than 10 Montegos, and only being 24 years old I can safely say they are not the bad cars the press made out. I still have 3 Montegos, one is a show car, one a project car and the other is a race car. Two of these are 2.0Efi models. I ha ...

npturner 16.10.2001 · Read full review
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Austin Rover Montego 2.0 Injection Mayfair Estate

Advantages: Good performance strong engine weak clutch
Disadvantages: Poor build quality

My Dad was looking for a workhorse car and found one of these at a local independant garage.White 2.0 litre fuel Injected Mayfair model 1988/89 with 40,000 odd miles on the clock,4 ears or so old and not too many owners. After 5 minutes of me driving it ...

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Review of Austin Montego 2.0

Austin Montego 2.0

Advantages: Very comfortable, spacious and reliable
Disadvantages: Interior not so wonderful

The Austin Montego 2.0 estate is a very big car. It offers lots of legroom for both the driver and passengers. The Montego has been known as cheap and nasty by lots of people but I think they are splendid cars and I am proud they were British made! Our ...

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