A20 TBO & Clarkson

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:22 pm

What was that in aid of? Just found a link posted to it on pistonheads.

TurboMG · Post by **TurboMG** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:45 pm

That was when clarkson done a series on hot hatches, unfortunately that car is now for sale on e bay...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/16v-MG-MAESTRO-TU ... dZViewItem

daz500 · Post by **daz500** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:58 pm

does anybody know what happened to it?
seems a shame to end up burnt out

MGTurbo · Post by **MGTurbo** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:00 pm

First i heard of it was today when someone posted the link on Triple-M. Looks like the work of arsonists, a bit of a shame, the car is unlikely to be rebuilt because you cannot get new bodyshells yet, and your also struggling to find anyone brave enough to rescue it.

NZ Rover 220 · Post by **NZ Rover 220** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:46 pm

Damn. That is not good. I know both the car and its original owner extremely well. :cry:

Gary

helix · Post by **helix** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:53 pm

I was just watching Top Gear and very briefly Clarkson described a Rover Coupe along with a Jag as being great cars.

A tad surprised by that though this was an opposed to Nissan Praire and Vauxhall Viva the interviewee had also owned in the past

BlueRover · Post by **BlueRover** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:00 pm

I think he was referring to the old 3.5 litre Coupe, not the tomcat or the 800 come to think of it.

Shame how he's forgotten how much he liked the ZT V8.

50-70 in 5th = 5 seconds.
70-90 in 5th = 5 seconds.
90-110 in 5th = 5 seconds.

(or something like that anyway)

g1jkb · Post by **g1jkb** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:38 am

I think he was referring to the old 3.5 litre Coupe, not the tomcat or the 800 come to think of it.

yes, that's possible.

but remember - clarkson did love the 200 coupe when he first reviewed it. and i never saw him write a bad review about it since.

Toblerone · Post by **Toblerone** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:17 pm

g1jkb wrote:
I think he was referring to the old 3.5 litre Coupe, not the tomcat or the 800 come to think of it.

yes, that's possible.

but remember - clarkson did love the 200 coupe when he first reviewed it. and i never saw him write a bad review about it since.

I think he said 'cool' car, not 'great' car iirc
don't know which coupe he meant though!

Post by **MarkCoupe** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:42 am

BlueRover wrote:I think he was referring to the old 3.5 litre Coupe, not the tomcat or the 800 come to think of it.

But he said 200 coupe not Rover P5

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:00 pm

No he actually just said the Rover Coupe, never mentioned which particular variant.

Post by **MarkCoupe** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:15 pm

Oh my apol.ogies then, i thought he said 200 coupe