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The Austin Maestro is a five-door hatchback small family car (and two-door van derivative) that was produced from November 1982 to 1986 by British Leyland, and from 1986 until December 1994 by Rover Group, as a replacement for the Austin Maxi and Austin Allegro, with the van version replacing the corresponding van derivative of the Morris Ital.
These were mainly based on British cars, such as the classic Mini, Austin/Rover Metro, Jaguar models and the Austin Maestro. Non-British manufacturers used for Banham kit cars included Skoda and BMW. Kits were sold up to the mid-2000s, when the Banham Conversions ceased production of all models, splitting the company's then-current model range ...
The Austin badge was removed from the cars, which continued to be manufactured with no marque badge, just a model name badge. Rover management never allowed Rover badges on the Montego or the Maestro in their home market, although they were sometimes referred to as "Rovers" in the press and elsewhere.
The Austin marque started with the Austin Motor Company, and survived a merger with the Nuffield Organization to form the British Motor Corporation, incorporation into the British Leyland Motor Corporation, nationalisation as British Leyland (BL) forming part of its volume car division Austin Morris later Austin Rover, and later privatisation as part of the Rover Group and was finally phased ...
The Austin Rover Group (abbreviated ARG) was a British motor manufacturer.It was created in 1982 as the mass-market car manufacturing subsidiary of British Leyland (BL). ). Previously, this entity had been known as BL Cars Ltd (formerly Leyland Cars) which encompassed the Austin-Morris and Jaguar-Rover-Triumph divisions of British Le
The Austin marque is shelved and the remaining models, the Metro, Maestro and Montego continue without a brand name until the Metro was relaunched as a Rover in 1990; 1988: Leyland Bus sold to Volvo Buses [11] Rover Group privatised; sold to British Aerospace fastback version of the Rover 800 launches
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The tooling and intellectual property rights to the Austin Maestro and Montego were sold by MG Rover to RDS International Engineering, who then sold it on to Etsong. [1] Etsong began building a factory for this new venture in March 1998. [3] The first cars were Maestro vans, assembled in late 2000.