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Austin Maestro rear (basic model with steel bumpers) British Leyland was created in 1975 when the bankrupt British Leyland Motor Corporation was nationalised.In 1977 the South African-born corporate troubleshooter, Michael Edwardes, was recruited as chairman to sort out the troubled firm.
The Austin Allegro is discontinued after nine years in production. 1983: Launch of Austin Maestro, which replaces the defunct Allegro and Maxi ranges. The MG badge is used for the MG Maestro 1600 sports model. Austin Ambassador production ends in November. 1984: Launch of the second Honda-ARG joint venture car, the Mk1 Rover 200-series.
Searching for a relatively cheap existing car to base this new Banham model on, he found that the Austin Maestro had the same wheelbase as the RS200, allowing for a cheap yet fast replica to be produced when an MG Maestro 2.0 or Turbo was used as the donor model. Despite the low price and high sporting potential, the Banham 200 naturally ...
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 ...
Allegro production, which had lasted for nearly a decade, finally finished in March 1982. Its successor, the Austin Maestro, went into production in November 1982 and was officially launched on 1 March 1983. [8] The backlog of unsold Allegro 3 models remained sufficient to stock dealerships into 1983, well after the Maestro had launched. [9]
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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Offered in the unusual capacity of 1.7 L as well as 2.0 L, it proved to be reliable and was widely used in BL vehicles. These included the rear wheel drive Morris Ital of 1980 (1.7 L or 2.0 L with an automatic gear box), the rear wheel drive Rover SD1 of 1982 (2.0 L only), and 1.7 L and 2.0 L in the front wheel drive Austin Ambassador – in fact the only engine offered in this model.