On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Cotty wrote: > On 9/2/07, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> It's built by BMW and designed by BMW. Just by them in England. >> MINI is >> just a BMW nameplate and BMW builds and designs in many places >> (including the US). > > That's a computer talking. The people building the mini are mostly > recruited and live locally. They are the same people who were building > rover cars, and they are Brits. They wear overalls with BMW logos and > they get paychecks with money from German banks. The cars are made by > Brits. I've seen it.
Isn't the Mini engine manufactured in Brazil? Seem to have read that somewhere ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritec_engine Seems it might not be anymore however ...Now it's supposed to a 100% BMW design. http://www.motortrend.com/future/spied_vehicles/ 112_0503_2007_mini_cooper G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
