‘Your Best Friend Will Hate You’ - the Launch of the MG Metro

Hi folks, hope you enjoyed the video. Sorry for the echoey and tinny audio in this one. My lapel mic failed to record. So the audio is direct from the camera.

I love these old brochures, they provide an interesting window into times gone by, especially in the way in which they're written. Modern car sales material seems to be more interested in selling a life style rather than talking about the engineering, which is a bit of a shame.

I am 41, my mom had an A plate Metro L 1 litre. It so takes me back seeing the shape of the dashboard and switch gear. I am going to the NEC this Saturday for the classic car show, undoubtedly there will be metros and I will soak them in. Great videos, keep them coming

Forgot all about these cheap little gems. Loved them when I was a 1980s kid.

I remember these so well ,and this version is my absolute favourite MG Metro. I worked at an Austin Rover dealer in 1982 and was thrilled when they came out. We got the Silver Leaf Met and promptly displayed it on our carousel it looked amazing loved those pepper pot wheels. I have this brochure and the cooper one to (:

The mother of a friend bought a Black MG Metro and it looked really good. Huge fun and sounded wonderful. Nice.

A very good mate of mine bought one of these new in the metallic blue - by far the best choice in my opinion. Cut a very long story short, I shared the driving from the middle of England to the middle of France. Thanks to the M25 being closed, along with how the 'driving shifts' happened to work out, I hit both the morning rush in London and the evening rush in Paris! The cars small footprint and its nippyness, and of course excellent all-round visibility, allowed me to dispense with all my usual reserve, and just 'go for it', safely taking gaps which would not have been possible in a larger car. Fortunately there was some clear road on the way to the Hovercraft where the car showed just how capable it was at much higher speeds. Normally, I would never driven someone else's car so aggressively, and he would never have have allowed it, but as he said, part of him was saying slow down, and the other part was saying we need to go faster. We just caught the Hovercraft, joining the end of the boarding queue! We arrived at our destination after around a 14 or 15 hour journey with roughly equal times spent as a passenger and as a driver. More than long enough to come to a conclusion - the car passed with flying colours, smashing all expectations.

Aww, that first page car is the spit of the one I had when they came out - Zircon Blue metallic with the 82-only black/herringbone seats ❤

I worked in an Austin Rover dealers and remember the MG Metro being released... Then in 1989 i bought a 1986 all white face lifted MG Metro D122NWJ, they were great little cars...

It's always been interesting to me that there were many comments about the Metro driving position being worse than the Fiesta but it taught me a valuable lesson about body percentiles. My mate ran a Fiesta but couldn't get comfortable in a Metro, I couldn't get comfortable in the Fiesta but the Metro was great. The reason was that although the same percentile we had different leg, arm and torso lengths. My long legs and Orang-Utan arms were perfectly suited to the Metro! I ran 23 management cars over a period of 7 years (20000 miles a year on average) and only had one failure, a hydrogas unit after a four up camping trip with trailer, unreliable my arse!

Enjoy your brochure reviews, thank you!

The first car I bought was a E-Reg MG Metro. Absolutely loved it!

As a car enthusiast who was a car-mad teenager in the 80s, I never knew there was a Metro Cooper! Thanks for still teaching me things about cars of my youth! :)

My first car - Y plate in Silver bought in 92. Loved it

That brought back memories. I bought a brand new MG Metro in 1984 in Arum white and got the garage to paint and colour code the grill and wing mirrors. The interior had light grey seats, rather than black, with herringbone and red piping. A great, reliable little car. Super handling. Love your content.

I had an MG Metro in silver. Grey sports seats with red piping. Red seat belts. Had some decent features too like variable wiper speeds and cassette storage slots 🙂 A nice handling and nippy car. Upgraded to an MG Metro Turbo a few years later which was pretty quick!

One of the few occasions that ARG absolutely nailed it! The MG Metro is still my favourite of the early 80s hot hatches. What a fabulous interior. I’d have one in black please!

Had an 83 y reg in white in the late 80s still one of my favourite cars to this day

Really enjoy the nostalgia trip of your brochure reviews. Hard to believe its 40 years this year since the MG Metro launch.

I went to the Metro launch at Windsors in Wallasey and was hooked. I got a courtesy car from Ian Skelly that was an MG metro but at 3 years old at the time was riddled with rust and had two bald tyres!