New Shite Incoming - Horriblish MG Maestro Purchased

[Essex V6]

HLS was higher up the tree. The HLE was the economy model which had different gearing. Originally the cheapest model didn't even have a designated trim level then L, HL, HLE, VDP and MG.

 

When it was revised, became City then City X at the bottom

[adw1977]

At one point the bottom of the range Metro was the City and the next one up was Metro Standard!

[dollywobbler]

So was L "luxury" or "luxe" even though it usually appeared right at the bottom of the range?

 

GL on a Golf was top of the range, on a Granada it was second from bottom

 

It stems back to the olden days, when it was boggo or Deluxe I guess. Ford was one of the first to go acronym crazy. All sorts of oddities that you could spec on the Capri, like XLR.

 

I need to try a big-engined Maestro. I've only owned a 1.3L, which was hideously average in every way, and a 1.3 van, which was somehow a lot more fun despite being much, much worse.

[Cavcraft]

Iirc, all that XLR stuff referred to eXtral Luxury and the R was some sort of extra. Could well be wrong though.

[Pillock]

Didn't Ford make it so you could "X pack" any other model, hence L/LX/GL/GLX and then when they invented Ghia the natural progression was Ghia X

[inconsistant]

I can't help thinking that these were semi-random semi-meaningless initials who's meaning was post applied by owners. I reckon L is just L. Maybe Less, Low, Lux, Luxe or Luxury... I don't think the manufacturers were ever explicit about their meaning? My mum's Metro was a GS. Grande Sport? Greater Sport?

I think the only trim levels that had an obvious significant meaning were the old coach builder/luxury car names like Vanden Plas or Ghia.

Maybe 1980s BL were ahead of the game in using MG as a sporty trim level rather than it being an actual manufacturer of cars, which doesn't seem to be working that well.

[dome]

Mighty Gash

 

I remember her well

[RobT]

I found this in my garage earlier and thought of you.

 

[stuboy]

i had 1.3 hls.. thrashed everywhere...

 

great buy !!

[trigger]

The burning question is though, do you have legs like this when your behind the wheel?

 

[Cavcraft]

...anf if you have can I get a lift off you somewhere?

[cort16]

The very same just hairer.

 

I'm getting 2 front tyres fitted tomorrow so I can drive it without endangering life .

The brakes are also really shite they feel a bit spongey and when I drove it 15 miles or so the other day they picked up a chirp , which I recon could lead to a binding brake given enough driving time

[somewhatfoolish]

you need to remove this pipe and just listen to the improved induction ROAR

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Improved induction roar at the cost of cowbell loss through sucking in hot underbonnet air. I've never understood the attraction of making an engine perform worse by fitting a universal cone filter in place of a system which might actually get some cold air into the intake.

 

3 randoms if it roffles please.

[TDB_Inc]

Improved induction roar at the cost of cowbell loss through sucking in hot underbonnet air. I've never understood the attraction of making an engine perform worse by fitting a universal cone filter in place of a system which might actually get some cold air into the intake.

 

Because the manufactureres kno' nothing and are deliberately holding the cars back.

[Noel Tidybeard]

HL was a highish trim level on a lot of BL models. I think the 18-22 Series and it's later Princess incarnation was the first model to have a HL version.

 

negative that would be the Maxi 1750HL in '72, whereas wedge was '75

[Noel Tidybeard]

HLS was higher up the tree. The HLE was the economy model which had different gearing. Originally the cheapest model didn't even have a designated trim level then L, HL, HLE, VDP and MG.

 

When it was revised, became City then City X at the bottom

for launch year '83 range was

 

1.3 buttery biscuit base

1.3 L & 1.6L

1.3 HLE

1.6 HLS

MG 1600 (R-series)

1.6 Vandn Plah

 

1984 unleashed the HL (which might have been 1.6 only) the S-series MG 1600 & the legend that is MG EFi

 

then it all goes mad in 1985

 

City

City X

L

HLE becomes LE

HL

HLS

MG

VP

[Ghosty]

 Stop committing Metrocities, this thread is about a Maestro!

[cort16]

I've had 2x £35 happy carousel potato XL9's fitted today. The brakes are really horrible I need to look at that next. Hopefully a clean up of the calipers and a flush through of brake fluid will help as the current stuff looks horrible.

 

I've had a lot of positivity directed towards it while I've been driving around. A few thumbs up and a 12 year old boy climbing into a Purple Sherpa camper van shouting, Mum, Mum it's an MG Maestro!

Even the guys down at my lockup who usually treat my purchases with a mixture of curiosity and disgust seem reasonably taken with it. I think mostly based on the shock of seeing one still on the road. 

[somewhatfoolish]

Schoolboy eerro; everyone knows the Pommes de Terre Roundabout GXL10 are far superior and 80% less likely to cause spontaneous combustion.

[oldcars]

I've had 2x £35 happy carousel potato XL9's fitted today. The brakes are really horrible I need to look at that next. Hopefully a clean up of the calipers and a flush through of brake fluid will help as the current stuff looks horrible.

 

I've had a lot of positivity directed towards it while I've been driving around. A few thumbs up and a 12 year old boy climbing into a Purple Sherpa camper van shouting, Mum, Mum it's an MG Maestro!

Even the guys down at my lockup who usually treat my purchases with a mixture of curiosity and disgust seem reasonably taken with it. I think mostly based on the shock of seeing one still on the road. 

Be carefull, those happy carousel potato XL9's have a habbit of causing chips in wheels.................................

[Guest Hooli]

Less Fireball creation than XL-5s though.

 

 

 

 

 

That's a joke for the oldies.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Iirc, all that XLR stuff referred to eXtral Luxury and the R was some sort of extra. Could well be wrong though.

 

R was rally pack, black bonnet, rear window louvres and so on iirc.

 

Capri GTXLR FTW.