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Cheapest people carrier available

Advantages: Seats up to seven, cheap to run and mantain
Disadvantages: Style,style, style

The seven seater 2.0 Montego Countryman estate variant is available on the 2nd hand market for very reasonable prices. An M reg 1994 with 55000 miles costs around £1500. Compare that to a Renault Espace of equivalent age and mileage, £5500. Now let me ...

Woodster 19.07.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Austin Estate 2.0

How to find a cheap, reliable runaround

Advantages: cheap to buy, excellent British engines, good fuel economy
Disadvantages: rust

...I have to say that I am going to go against the standard Maestro opinion on this. You ask many people what they think of the Austin Maestro, and they'll say how awful the car is, many of them without ever going anywhere near them. Myself I think the look ...

GraWar 16.04.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Austin Maestro 2.0

Rustbucket or Revmeister

Advantages: Good size
Disadvantages: Rust

Clapped out runabout or economical town car? Both! I am not going to pretend a car of this generation does not have its problems but it also has its good points. THE CAR The maestro was first produced in 1983 and 596,000 cars were made. The model ...

Ophelia 07.03.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Austin Maestro 2.0

Britains Most Underestimated Motor

Advantages: easy to work on, good fuel economy, spacious, nice engines, MG versions quick
Disadvantages: stigma attached to them, rust

Whenever people talk about the Austin-Rover Maestro, people seem to just write it off as a complete and useless failure, I have to stick up for it though and say it was actually a hell of a lot better than everyone seems to think. There was always goi ...

CyrixDes 31.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Austin Maestro 2.0

Rover Maestro 1.3L

Advantages: Very reliable
Disadvantages: Noisy and dated

I have looked up the site and found that many people have already writen a lot about this car, but felt that as I have owned my 1.3L version for over 10 years, I had to get in my "halfpennies" worth. It is one of the most reliable cars I have ever owne ...

STUARTSTIRLING 15.12.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Austin Maestro 2.0