Road TestCar reviews - MG - ZT - 260 V8 sedanOverviewMG sends a best-of-British V8 to the land of Holden and Ford bent eights7 Oct 2004 THIS sort of thing doesn’t happen very often in the car industry. A car-maker keen to enhance its image as a maker of performance-oriented machines is inhibited by front-drive engine packaging. Solution: convert the whole thing to a rear-drive configuration and source a suitably powerful V8 from another manufacturer. This, in essence, is what MG Rover has done with the understated but dramatically engineered ZT 260. And the British engineers have done a good job, producing a car with no flaws in its ability to deliver power, as well as a nicely balanced chassis designed to appeal to the enthusiast. If there’s a problem, it’s that hot V8 sedans are pretty common in Australia, and that signs of British inattention to build quality tend to show through in niggling ways. Model release date: 1 August 2004 to 1 June 2005 All car reviewsAlfa Romeo Abarth Alpine Alpina Audi Aston Martin BMW Bentley Chevrolet Chery Citroen Chrysler Dodge Cupra Ferrari DS Ford Fiat FPV Foton GWM Great Wall Holden Haval HSV Honda Hyundai Hummer Isuzu Infiniti Jeep Jaguar Lamborghini Kia LDV Land Rover Lotus Lexus Maserati Mahindra McLaren Mazda Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-AMG Mini MG Nissan Mitsubishi Peugeot Opel Proton Porsche Renault Ram Rover Rolls-Royce Skoda Saab SsangYong Smart Suzuki Subaru Toyota Tesla Volvo Volkswagen |
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