Never liked the Renault 17 but that Montego is something I’ve fond memories of. I flogged loads of them in the 90’s and rust aside had not one bit of bother. They were much better cars than their reputation suggested, all drove well and they were actually pretty well made once you got past the 1987 facelift. Shame they didn’t rust treat the things properly.
My Montego Turbo was a favourite of the cars that I've owned. It was huge fun, and very comfortable. The O series engine was strong and it massive mid range torque, still pulling well at higher speeds. Took a while to spool up but elastic band like acceleration once on song. One thing that BL did well was cabin design. Very spacious, good driving position and airy with those big upright windows.
Seem to remember they had weak front wheel bearings, undersized for the size of car, and the earlier models had bad torque steer, but they modified the later ones and mine was fine.
At the time I wished they had made a turbo version of the estate.
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