New Vans

[H48HPE]

I read in Monstro that Rover have begun production of maestro vans again. Has anyone actually seen one of these new vans yet?

also I was wondering if anyone knew what engine they come with.

If they have begun production again its not a bad move because the van never really looked dated and the escort van is still in production which is a similar size. what they need is backing from someone like the postoffice who would buy in mass fot their fleet.

andy

[D87 SMW]

True. They are far better than those horrid little Citroén C15 vans - which they still have the nerve to build today! :eek: :horror: :nonono: :giveup:

[Beaker]

Yes if new maestro vans, would be good!.


We could have a conversion - conversion for our camper jane, in to a nice spanking new body.

If only us humans, could get a new body when we go rusty round the edges :) :laugh:

[E_T_V]

Yes I read that and would be interested to know where they come from?? I'd be even more interested to know how much they were!

The vans used to come with either the 2.0 diesel or the 1.3 petrol. Suspect they'll be the turbo diesel now.

They used to sell them to big customers like the AA, BT and some others. If one of them took them on again they'd certainly be laughing.. Shame they don't sell them in single units though as I'd be interested when this campr finally rusts away! :D

[J199 HHG]

I've just checked out the MG-Rover website, and the only vans I can find are the Rover 25 derived vans, i.e a 3dr Rover 25 without rear windows.

Can't find Maestro ones anywhere?

Any links anybody?

[D87 SMW]

When I was getting a quote for a Ledbury Maestro, I put in Rover, and then chose Year: 2000, and the only model available then was a van! Have they ever stopped making them?

[Quality]

Originally posted by F170 GGT
True. They are far better than those horrid little Citroén C15 vans - which they still have the nerve to build today! :eek: :horror: :nonono: :giveup:

OI! The AX derived van is cool :rage: :p

[H48HPE]

I think we need a rover 'insider' on the forum to help us out with stuff like this. Rover must have retained the tooling for the van to be making them now so its possible i supose that vans have never stopped being made but the newest one ive seen was on a T plate i think a few weeks ago which could have been a ledbury one

andy

[Beaker]

Well, i hope there would be more listed under rover for year 2000 :)

[Austin-Rover]

Insurance companies dont seem to be very consistant when it comes to late Maestro's. I would presume these 'new' vans are Rovers. But insurance sites list my car as an Austin - where is the reasoning behind that?

[Ricky]

Originally posted by Quality
OI! The AX derived van is cool :rage: :p

AX derived? It's a Visa (pre AX!) but its still horrible! The Visa wasn't great (typical small french tinniness and body roll!), and to be honest how they can get away with still building it is really a crime, but I vaugely recollect seeing an article somewhere that informed me that they still build the Peugeot 504 pick up in Nigeria, as well as the 405 and 309 in Iran.....

[Austin-Rover]

I dont think it's the Citroen Visa. the C15 is based on the AX isnt it?

:confused:

[e692wtt]

No. It's Citroen Visa-based. Honest. It's not that bad as a car-derived van, I'm told. Replaced by the Multilingo (or whatever) nowadays anyway.

If you want a really not-very-good Citroen, try the LNA (clone of the Talbot Samba, the Samba we owned never danced! It really wasn't very good at all).:horror:

[G51 NAV]

Originally posted by RDGelder
Insurance companies dont seem to be very consistant when it comes to late Maestro's. I would presume these 'new' vans are Rovers. But insurance sites list my car as an Austin - where is the reasoning behind that?
The reason behind that is that the later (88-on) 'unbranded' Maestros and Montegos were never officially sold as Rovers, unlike the 1990-on Rover Metros. They were just branded as "Maestro" and "Montego", like "Mini". You saw the same car in dealerships advertised equally as a Rover or Austin, with seemingly no obvious pattern.

Actually, I don't think of the later Maestros as Rovers. To my mind all Maestros and Montegos were either MG, Austin or Vanden Plas.

For a start, Maestros and Montegos never got the Rover badging - only one or two dealers stuck 'Rover' on the back (I guess in an attempt to reduce flagging sales?) and were never officially 'Roverised', unlike the Metro.

Nah ... to my mind, even the last Maestros and Montegos were Austins through and through ... and should be proud to be so! Austin was a very revered name...

[Firefly]

oy rich! (e wtt).
we had a talbot samba! and it was one of the nicest,most fun cars we ever had! i was gutted when we swopped it for a mk 5 auto cortina.

having said that, i was more gutted when we swopped the cortina for a triumph dolomite sprint! (luckily we swopped back a week later, much to steve's annoyance)

[e692wtt]

I know, I know, they were a predecessor of the Peugeot 205 and shared the same engines etc, but our particular Samba GL example just wasn't very good. It had a fine dust in the fuel system and its jets, especially the idle jet, once cleared (and my dad could do it in seconds, soon enough) running was affected within a mile. A bit of rough running in a brand new car used to be expected then, as the engine 'broke in', but this really wasn't any good. My dad did 20,000 miles in the first year, during which time the exhaust fell off. I got backache off the seats, and I didn't have any back problems then (but boy, have I now!). My dad traded it against a brand new 205GR after 1 year, which was just £1000 more (£6k vs £5k) and was, frankly, from a different Universe.

I think we got a bad 'un - as I said, the last thing *our* particular one would do was dance.

To be fair, my stepmum got a Samba GL secondhand later on and that was in the same class as the 205GR, thinking about it. So mebbe you're right but our first one *was* a duffer, no question!

[JollyMG(1)]

We used to have a Peugeot 104, which was later the Talbot Samba and that used to give us numb bottoms and bad backs! poor quality very poor :( we chopped it in within a week for a Chrysler Avenger, wot a car! LOL! well at least it was more ergonomic than the 104 anyway.

Paul

[threelitre]

Originally posted by G51 NAV
For a start, Maestros and Montegos never got the Rover badging - only one or two dealers stuck 'Rover' on the back (I guess in an attempt to reduce flagging sales?) and were never officially 'Roverised', unlike the Metro.


Wrong here... The Montego was later officially sold as Rover Estate, badges as Rover GTD or Rover GTi outside the UK and was quite successful. It also had Rover badges on the front and steering wheel. But then we never had a Rover Metro - it was (sensibly) called Rover 100 from start...

Alexander