Austin Rover - The Test Drive (1984)
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2016
- a Short Retro Video showing how to conduct a test drive. Plenty of 80's BL/AR metal on show!
The Test Drive
Information on how to conduct a test drive
Ft. Paul Jericho & Matthew Long 
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There are dealerships to this day that would benefit from this video!! 😅
Brilliant! It was felt at the time by Austin Rover that their products were now on a par with the other car manufacturers and that what let them down was poor customer service , hence this video. I worked for a dealer at the time and remember watching this vid haha.
Really? I thought you were making Octopussy
1984 was the best year ever. What a great time to be alive.
The ashtray should be cleaned out every day :)
YUCK!
I bet the vehicles stank!
I'm a big Austin Rover fan but even I wouldn't swap a Mark 1 Golf GTi for a Maestro.
gixeff 750 stop kidding yourself they were bloody awful shoddy rot boxes! Dated styling and poorly thrown together. Not a patch on golfs at the time.
You would need to be clinically insane!
If you could buy a car (even now) just as a toy not daily transport, you'd go for an MG Maestro 2000 EFI . Trust me, the power was f.ing mental, floor it in 3rd it went like a ferrari
It's not even close. The best thing that Maestro tester did was get in his little Golf and go whee whee whee all the way home!
@@barnbersonol Get over it. It had 160hp. Almost everything has more than that today. I had a 1.6HLS as my second ever car. It was only 11 years old when it went to the scrap heap with terminal chassis rust. Useless. the only good thing about it was the VW sourced transmission.
If Austin Rover felt the need to produce a sales training video on how to cover the basics like being courteous to the customer then their Dealerships must have been awful.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes
To be fair most mainstream dealers were back then...
A Golf GTI for an Austin Maestro ?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Very good prank !!!
This is beautiful.
Love this
Conveniently parked close like…. that nice Renault 5 the costumer will end up buying!
With the benefit of hindsight and this video, its easy now to see why Austin-Rover was always doomed. This sales video needed to be made at expense i can only assume because their salesman were treating potential customers so badly.
I bought a new Maestro in 1993 and one dealer told me to come back next week as he was busy with August 1st reg cars but the other three I had been to all managed to see me.
How long did u have it for and how well did it motor?
Ooh those SD1s
This looks better than my experience so far with Porsche UK buying / awaiting an £80k car 😂
Mg Metro turbo in white is 🤩
I drove a works montego 2.0 in the 90’s, it wasn’t as bad a car as ppl made it out to be..
I think the later ones were sound cars, my Grandad had one of the first 1990 Roverised Montegos. It was a comfortable and well built car the problem is the styling was very date by then as the MK3 Cavalier and Rover 400 had just come out. I think the Montegos were cheaper though.
SD1 please !
a new golf gti for a austin maestro 1.3hl?...i dont think so!
The guy definitely stuck to his GTI!
Tim Brooke Taylor sells Barry Chuckle a Maestro
I tried to find where these were filmed. Found 1 location in Kingston Upon Thames (East Lane) As the car pulls out of a junction by what was Moss Bros (now a Nandos) goo.gl/maps/5tVeZa5rDNF2
And the ash tray should be cleaned out everyday. They should have only have allowed them to smoke cigars to make the car seem more expensive.
Nice comedy video
Actually the Maestro and Montego still look quite modern
They looked outdated the day they hit the show room floors let alone today.
The Maestro was really just a 1980's Allegro but with even lower sales. Austin Rover really was an ongoing tragicomedy all sponsored by the UK taxpayer.
APB872Y lasted until 1993
Which is absolutely scandalous. Ten years? Pffffft.
The things you had to do to buy a flippin' Maestro back in 1984! If you had to put with dimwit salespeople like at this dealership, no wonder potential buyers went running! (I know it is just a demo video, but did AR training really have to tell their salespeople to be professional and courteous? Couldn't these dealers have figured that out? Man, I was born at the wrong time in the wrong place....)
Some sales executives are still like that today. It boggles the mind some of the things I hear about at work...
Even the music is Benny Hill style.
Was this a real training video ?
For some car sales people, a Benny Hill like level of competence would have been a great step ahead...
Yes, I've seen other manufacturers use a "comedy" style to show what not to do.
I would definitely not have bought that car if I had the Golf GTI! I would rather have bought a Vauxhall Cavalier SRI or a Ford Escort XR3i ! I knew people who drove them and they never had any troubles.
Hope he didn’t trade in that golf !
oh dear me.
Might be an idea to pay for the petrol too…
As if ANYONE would swap a golf GTI for a bloody Maestro....
I'd gladly swap one for an MG Maestro. The standard Austin one less so.
@@SpitfireFortyFour even more so an mg maestro turbo, much rather that than a gti
Always drive it yourself for the first few miles...... yeah, so you can disguise it chugging like a bastard on choke.
The man who own that golf might been considering metro for someone in his family.
For mother in law
Someone he hated 😂
I also wouldn't want a perspective customer seeing the need to add a substantial amount of oil to a new car.
Must of been for the wife. I would not let the wife drive the golf GTI too
Must HAVE. FFS, people...
Who says sexism is dead.
Hilarious.... they let people smoke in the cars ?
eurouc we all did that.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 I have never smoked but I started having driving lessons in 1999 and even as recently as that my instructor smoked like a chimney.
if i had none that he had a gti i wud not have bothered !
I remember this being sent out to every dealership. Honda sent out secret shoppers on rovers behalf as they thought rover made good cars but noone bought them. And this film was based on fact.
Just shows what a mess rover was
Thanks for the comment. This video is one of my personal favourites on the channel and I have re-uploaded it with the full soundtrack intact
It will be published this weekend so check back soon!
It should be close to a.......
Cliff so you can save yourself the aggro of owning a future rustbucket and endless repair bills.
Why would they use a VW golf!!!
God knows how they kept going for so many years when the Germans and Japanese were laughing there socks off
If I remember correctly, it was the Germans that destroyed Rover.
@@jean-lucpicard5510
After the test drive he won't want one lol go buy a ford or Vauxhall
Typical Austin rover Group and also BL ... Notice the trim on the passenger side windscreen pillar ? It's coming away at the top. Crap cars, crap build quality. Small wonder people went to other manufacturers, all had faults but BL / rover group were dismal and shoddy.