mazda 4x4 turbo and montego turbo

Spotted these old cars today at work . havent seen any for years seen the montego near durham overtook me van with its dump valve going . and also spotted the old mazda 4x4 near sunderland . what where these cars like bk in the day lol. anyone ever owned one of them b4 , whats the engine size and power std? Wasnt the mazda going up against the coswort hs at the time ' random rant just curious lol

Bloody hell, blasts from the past there, sure the moty turbos were 150 bhp ish standard but a hell of a lot more with a boost lift, engines were soft as shite though.

The mazda turbos ranged from around 150 up to 210 depending on year and modle as far as I am aware, Chris C on here had one many moons ago, was rapid in its day!

The most unusual sleeper I have ever had was a renault 11 turbo-



Went like stink 120bhp (5 gt turbo engine) standard but I had it up to 173bhp

There's a Austin Montego driving around Gateshead and the owner obviously has a sense of humour.


He's turned the M upside down and got rid of the e. Edning up with....


Austin Wont go. Class!

Was the m notebook turbo not the fastest production car in 1985 or something!! First car I drove after passing my test was an mg meastro with holes drilled in the air box

Definitely a blast from the past! As jonny says I had a 323 4x4 turbo (am impressed with the memory jonny!) nearly 15 years ago! It had a hybrid turbo and was running 244bhp at 1.1 bar! Pretty good at the time up from about 150 standard. The biggest problem with them were chocolate gearboxes as I found out took some finding a replacement then with no Internet! Was one hell of a sleeper though in black as a nice new Aston Martin found out at the time

Can you remember the Nissan cherry turbo that one of the lads had Chris?

Been in Nissan bluebird turbo as a kidand a rover 220 turbo coupe as a teenager they were pretty quick,the bloke was the bluebird also had a Toyota space cruiser! Used to think it was the dogs bollox lol

I nearly bought a Isuzu piazza turbo, they were quick cars, went with the cash to pick it up and the bastard had sold it.

How strange ... do you know my dad daz !! he had a bluebird turbo then got a 220 rover coupe turbo both in white, i was only about 22 at the time and loved them

lol,he had a bluebird turbo and a space cruiser for his missus lol

Didnt Andy nichol drag a maestro turbo moons back before dragging Rovers/MG's ?

Also remember me mates dad having a Fiat strada arbarth

anyone seen that beat up maestro turbo van that gets down the american car meet down the metro .
theres a few park together one got a sticker in the back window saying
"if chuck norris did maestros" haha

Lad who a used to work with has a maestro turbo with about 200 bhp lol takes it to York and quarter miles it all the time and he's really good mates with the lad with the maestro van dunno if you noticed but it has a screamer pipe sticking out the bonnet aswell

Remember the Renault 21 turbo that was a quick car in its day, & the Renault fuego turdo lol

My mate Barker has a pretty rapid 21 turbo like,

this is a excellent thread

love them blast from the pasts...

i loved my 1st quick car= fiat uno turbo E reg, it was very quick with a few mods

a can recall one nite on way back from the venue 5am, 5 ppl in the car and it done 145mph +, on a private track ov course

then a went down the renault 5 turbo (widearch) i had the most bhp in the northeast just ask jonnygav he will confirm this

There was a white Mazda 4x4 turbo rallying at croft today, some photos of it in action in the photos section.

Ha ha ha at Finn, you no my wide arch 5 turbo was quicker lol

pffffttt anutha blue renault 5

mine was quicker, more bhp, and the owner was a better driver



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My first car was a Peugeot 405 1.9 GRx4, it was a proper sleeper as the choke was jammed open. Used to be like a rocket ship and done about 8mpg on average.

Great car for a 15 year old to practice in that's right, 15, used to play with it on Otterburn range.

The spoiler was flaking so I took it off and painted it black (red car), looked awesome. Only thing is, when I out it back on, I put it the wrong way round so instead of it acting like a spoiler (downforce) it acted like a wing (lots of lift) as my mate found out when he bought it off me. Fast corner + light back end = upside down 405.

There was a Maestro and a 323 4x4 turbo running around Croft at ther Jack Frost rally yesterday, amongst many other oddities!

Jonny Gav wrote:

Ha ha ha at Finn, you no my wide arch 5 turbo was quicker lol

was that on of the turbo raider ones? they were well rare!!

Both nice motors . the white ones nice . what bhp did u both get them upto ? Bet yous where a nightmare racing each other all the time on the hum private test track . i ad a punto gt but wish id got a glanza over one now as they are more tuneable