On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:38:48PM +0000, Drew wrote: > John Francis wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:29:45PM +0000, Drew wrote: >> >>> David Savage wrote: >>> >>>> G'day All, >>>> >>>> Last one from my Fremantle night time excursion: >>>> >>>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/disavage/4394082044/> >>>> >>>> Direct link (~170kb) >>>> <http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4394082044_f8db7b0e6d_o.jpg> >>>> >>>> D700, AF-D 50mm f1.4, 1/6 @ f5, ISO 1600. >>>> >>>> Enjoy. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>> Great shot... love it! I was a bit worried that it might have been >>> a BMW 0.5 series. >>> >> >> Which is a far better car ... >> >> >> > On a technical level yes, I could never deny that engineering has not > improved in the intervening 40+ years... but it's just another > hot-hatch, not dissimilar to the offerings from Toyota, Citroen, Fiat > etc etc... this one happens to be styled to take advantage of peoples > love for the Mini, just like the Fiat 500 and new Beetle do for their > respective followers.
The Clubman is probably the poorest choice of a new mini if you just want to rag on it - it's actually a pretty neat little box, and has several good design points (not the least of which being the choice of side-hingeing rear doors; it's *not* "just another hot hatch" :-). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
