030 Austin Maestro 1.6ltr Mayfair (1987) E 677 SOB

Austin/ (Rover) Maestro (1983-94) Engine 1598cc S4 R Series
Registration Number E 677 SOB (Birmingham)
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The Maestro was a compact 4 door Hatchback and 2 door Van originally produced as an Austin Maestro under the British Leyland banner. From 1988 onwards under the restructured Rover group the Austin badge was dropped and the vehicle referred to as a Rover maestro though never wearing a Rover badge, simply a Maestro badge.

The Maestro incorporated many novel and pioneering features for its class. It had a bonded laminated windscreen, homofocal headlamps, body-coloured plastic bumpers, an electronic engine management system, adjustable front seat belt upper anchorage positions, an asymmetrically split rear seat, and a 12,000-mile (19,300 km) service interval. The MG and Vanden Plas versions had solid-state instrumentation with digital speedometer and vacuum fluorescent analogue displays for tachometer, fuel and temperature gauges, trip computer and a voice synthesis warning and information system.

Although production officially ended in 1994, production was transferred to Varna, Bulgaria for assembly from complete knockdown kit form., around 2000 were produced before that company Rodacar AD ceased production in 1996, citing the high import costs of the components and little demand. The majority of these cars were exported from Bulgaria to other countries a small number finding their way to the UK and sold by Apple 2000 Ltd. of Bury st. Edmunds.

In 1997 Parkway Services of Ledbury, Herefordshire purchased a batch of 621 CKD kits, previously stored at Cowley. the majority of these were built and converted to RHD form, meaning that the last new Maestro was registered as late as 2001.

This is not quite the end of the saga, the tooling was sold to FAW (First Auto Works), China, who continued to produce the vehicle in both hatchback and van form adding a new model which incorporated a Maestro hatch and Montego front end.

A Maestro, registration D 653 VMY was regualrly used in a number Inspector Lynley Mysteries, as the car driven by Inspector Lyleys assistant Sergeant Barbara Havers (Sharon Small) an edgy working class cop, set against the Bristol driven by the suave aristocratic Inspector Lynley

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Shot 20.06.2019 at Eton Wick, Berkshire 142-030

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