On 9/11/2014 1:11 PM, Bill wrote:
On 11/09/2014 9:56 AM, P.J. Alling 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 by definition, not real Minis, which were, IIRC, made in England
by British Motor Corp until that was taken over by British Leyland and
then Rover Group.
I tried as hard as I could, but I didn't see BMW anywhere in the list
of manufacturers for the original Mini.
Some people just seem to want to be offended.
bill
I was never a Mini fan, the new BMW "mini" seems to be a better all
around car, at a price, it's no longer an economy car, but then again
neither is the Volkswagen Beetle, both those cars have become nostalgia
toys.
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