Don't Germans get it?
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Just read in this week's Autocar: "Due on sale in 2006, the Mini Mk2 will be longer, wider and taller..."
Then it's not MINI is it!!!!
It's not even especially mini now, is it? Strange how the memory of a specific shape can have an effect on the impression of size (as my wife of twenty years keeps telling me!)
Expect the MINI Maybach competitor by 2008!
Then it's not MINI is it!!!!
It's not even especially mini now, is it? Strange how the memory of a specific shape can have an effect on the impression of size (as my wife of twenty years keeps telling me!)
Expect the MINI Maybach competitor by 2008!
Its always been the case I am afraid.
The Mini has always been seen by the BMW higher ups as the BMW 1 Series.
They didnt buy the car or the enthusiasts or the history but the brand plain and simple. The current Mini was created as such to appease the British public as it just wouldnt have sold if it didnt keep something of the last 40 years glorious heritage but this iteration of the car was strictly speaking a vanity release that would revamp the Mini brand and have a large take up in the home market.
Unfortunately it seems to have worked.
The greatest car ever made and they ruin it with one stroke of the Bosch pen.
Matt.
The Mini has always been seen by the BMW higher ups as the BMW 1 Series.
They didnt buy the car or the enthusiasts or the history but the brand plain and simple. The current Mini was created as such to appease the British public as it just wouldnt have sold if it didnt keep something of the last 40 years glorious heritage but this iteration of the car was strictly speaking a vanity release that would revamp the Mini brand and have a large take up in the home market.
Unfortunately it seems to have worked.
The greatest car ever made and they ruin it with one stroke of the Bosch pen.
Matt.
Fatboy said:
perhaps we should suggest they rename it the "maxi" (jeez, remember them?!?!)
I'm sure I remember reading that the germans suggsted a larger version of the MINI called just that to the Cowley bosses, who had to try and explain why it was a shit idea with a straight face!!!
Allegro?
"Quartic" (square) steering wheel? - Could be very Germanic.
Just read in this week's Autocar: "Due on sale in 2006, the Mini Mk2 will be longer, wider and taller..."
If it all follows the trend, it should be so small on the inside that only toddlers will fit.
Only the Germans could make the current Mini so that it's huge from the outside, has less space inside than a Ford Ka, yet is more expensive than a Ford Focus.
Roy C said:
Fatboy said:
perhaps we should suggest they rename it the "maxi" (jeez, remember them?!?!)
I'm sure I remember reading that the germans suggsted a larger version of the MINI called just that to the Cowley bosses, who had to try and explain why it was a shit idea with a straight face!!!
Allegro?
"Quartic" (square) steering wheel? - Could be very Germanic.
Quality motor, and I must say that the later "improved" Allegros did not have square steering wheels.
So there.
mondeoman said:
plotloss said:
Paul V said: Apparently the MD at BMW has a classic mini, he was keeping it at john coopers, apparently even sent it an email!
He is also Alec Issigonis' nephew.
Its still heiracy.
Matt.
Heiracy or heresy?
It could, in all honesty be either for all I know.
I knew what I meant
Matt.
What about the spirit oe what ever it was called concept car that rover built a few years back rear engined like a smart , they should build it and rub bimmers nose in it after all the old mini was innovetive for the era that it was launched in and so the new car should have been the same ,you can only live on nostalga (spell check please 
) for so long
) for so long
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