Fucked Montegos on ARSEOnline

[Partridge]

They were told in India too for a while as well. Think it was the same people who made Indian SD1s. What is it with India and adopting our old shite as their own?

[scruff]

Simple really. They don't give a shit about brand image, fleet sales, A-Z of Modern Motoring etc. Buying the tooling and rights for an existing reasonably successful and half-decently engineered vehicle is a lot cheaper than developing from scratch and they are more or less guaranteed sales as the competition ain't up to much.

[Sigmund Fraud]

^ WHS. Also see : Hindustan Ambassador, Maruti 800.

[quicksilver]

Funnily enough I was reading about the Indian Montego over on ARSEOnline just the other day - things must have been very different over there for a Monty Clubman with a Perkins Prima to be sold as an executive car. Not had much experience of Montegos myself apart from an uncle who had a Countryman with the rear-facing seats - I remember the weirdness of following it and seeing my cousins' faces through the back window. A neighbour had an Advantage saloon at one time, BRG with white MG-style alloys that I thought looked rather smart. Haven't seen one round here for years, there used to be hundreds of them but all of a sudden they just disappeared en masse.

[Lord Sterling]

They were told in India too for a while as well. Think it was the same people who made Indian SD1s. What is it with India and adopting our old shite as their own?

Sipani Montego:

 

[Partridge]

Ah, good old team BHP. Thanks for sharing.

[angle]

I loved my dad's TD Countryman when I was little. The combination of rear-facing seats in the boot and the huge, thick cloud of Perkins-derived soot that it belched towards the car behind you every time you accelerated was extremely amusing to the seven year old me.

[I_am_Diesel]

When I was in the RAF they replaced the Mk2 diesel Cavaliers with Montego diesels. Due the fact the Montego was loads faster than the Cavalier the drivers couldn't handle them and lots got crashed and written off. I never really had much to do with them as Bedfords seemed to be my calling.

[tooSavvy]

Hmm... as a windscreen repair guy my only "draws air over teeth.. Nah M8" event was one of these......

 

The windscreen (bonded to the roof pillar) had cracked at the edge [ON THE INSIDE!!!] because the rusting joint had swollen/differentially and stressed/split the glass.

 

you don't glass weld on the inside...

 

 

TS

[406V6]

Back in 1988 I was allocated a 2 litre Sierra as a temporary company car. It wouldn't start in the company car park so I went back to the admin and was given a 1.6L Monty instead. I thought the Monty drove really well, better then the Sierra when I eventually got it back. I had to keep the Sierra though as the 2 litre engine meant it was the right car for my grade whereas the (only) 1.6 Monty was a car for the next grade down. Oh, the politics of company car man.

 

I hated the Sierra - awful in every dynamic respect - rough engine, not economical, crude feel to everything, heavy non-pas steering, unstable in cross winds although the driving position was good. 

[406V6]

Back in 1988 I was allocated a 2 litre Sierra as a temporary company car. It wouldn't start in the company car park so I went back to the admin and was given a 1.6L Monty instead. I thought the Monty drove really well, better then the Sierra when I eventually got it back. I had to keep the Sierra though as the 2 litre engine meant it was the right car for my grade whereas the (only) 1.6 Monty was a car for the next grade down. Oh, the politics and petty one-upmanship of company car man.

 

I hated the Sierra - awful in every dynamic respect - rough engine, not economical, crude feel to everything, heavy non-pas steering, unstable in cross winds although the driving position was good. 

[DS20]

I had an L-reg Montego Countryman for a while in 2000. It was the 2-litre model, and went quite well, although the gearing was a bit short which made it busy at motorway speeds. There wasn't as much space inside as I'd expected, particularly around rear legroom, and the rust was savage - serious, and everywhere. The door-bottoms were almost falling off, not to mention sills, seams, inner wings.