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I thought it had been sounding a bit throaty lately. Mid-overtake it happened. ROARRR chink… chink… Oh bugger! That’s what too much use of the loud pedal does to an old car, or the very, very deafeningly LOUD pedal as it had now become. Turned out my MG had spat its new exhaust centre section [...]

I thought a nice way to round off an unusually dry weekend would be to take the Maestro out for a quick run on some of the quiet, unclassified roads near my home while there was still about an hour of useful light to play with. The test route I normally use takes about 35 [...]

I think it’s probably fair to say I appreciate my comforts. Before I’d even put my MG Maestro on the road it had already inherited an impressive list of extras, many of which weren’t even available when it was new. Electric windows and sunroof, cross spoke alloy wheels and an upgraded stereo and CD changer [...]

It’s dawned on me that with so many other cars and projects competing for my attention I haven’t really said much about Maestros here lately. If I’m honest that’s because there’s been very little to report. When I haven’t been trying to send Allegros to Italy or Triumphs to Bromley, my faithful MG has been [...]

For the last month I’ve been driving my MG Maestro, which had to be disturbed from its winter hibernation early this year after my Rover Sterling developed an electrical problem. I retired the 100,000 mile Maestro from daily duties almost three years ago for the sake of long term preservation, but it really does deserve [...]

It never rains but it pours. The Maestro’s annual visit to the MOT centre always falls perilously close to the BMC/BL weekend in Peterborough. In recent years this minor complication hasn’t really worried me in the way you might expect it to because the car seems to have a habit of going straight through. Except [...]