On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:56 AM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/11/2014 3:19 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> >> John Francis wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:07:13AM +1000, Philip Northeast wrote: >>>> A real Mini Cooper on teh race track >>>> >>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/27281712@N08/15016470680/ >>> >>> Well, mostly on the track, anyway :-) >>> >>> >>> I don't think the gratuitous insult was called for, though. >>> I've driven both the original and the new Mini (including >>> getting an old Mini with less wheels in contact with the >>> pavement than the one you depict here), and I know which >>> I think is the better car. >> >> My first car was an Austin America aka Austin 1300, mechanically nearly >> identical to the Mini Cooper S. The sesquiminis may be a better car in the >> way that only 50 years of technological progress can improve a car, however >> when you compare them to "real minis" they might as well be BMWs. > > Which is only because they are BMWs. And a much better car if one measures automotive virtue in terms of handling, practicality, performance and all the other standards, but certainly not as interesting, unique or entertaining as the original. > >> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
