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Posted: Wednesday August 23rd, 2006 03:13 pm |
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The new 2007 Cooper model from Mini is coming in showrooms in fall this year, with a new skin and many improved features.
Here's a new exclusive review on this model, where you can read all about the new design, features and performance, and also enjoy a large high-res photo gallery and the intro movie 
"...The highly successful MINI produced by BMW starting with the year 2000 will come as a 2007 model with a completely new skin, but perfectly maintaining the original appeal and charisma of the previous installment. Without fail improved and polished in design, the new MINI presents an all-new drive-train technology for even superior agility..."
Read the whole article here: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/mini/mini-cooper-ar12647.html
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inno74
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Posted: Thursday August 24th, 2006 11:20 am |
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| Go on Taffy, you know you want too!!!
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taffy1967
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Posted: Thursday August 24th, 2006 01:00 pm |
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Hey don't be cheeky! 
Anyway it looks the same, yep as ugly as the last one! 
Oh and what's the chances of that leaving it's mark on Motorsport? Zilch I should imagine, but as a hair dressers car I imagine it will do very well indeed? 
Last edited on Sunday August 27th, 2006 05:31 pm by taffy1967 |
taffy1967
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Posted: Wednesday November 15th, 2006 09:14 pm |
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Taken from: http://www.sniffpetrol.com/
'GET DWARVES AWAY FROM MY CAR' SCREAMS MINI BOSS
There were angry scenes and an embarrassing revelation at a German launch party for the new Mini this week. Sources report that Mini Deutchland boss Helm Käse arrived at the function and, on sighting some people sitting near one of the cars on display, immediately became panicked. 'Get those dwarves away from my car' he screamed, before hiding behind a curtain. A fellow manager eventually pointed out that the 'dwarves' were in fact normal-sized people whose appearance had been rendered dwarfish by the distended, cartoon-like design details of BMW's new small car. 'Helm is scared of dwarves,' revealed a Munich insider, 'so his reaction was only natural, in a weird sort of way. I think he was bullied at school or something.'
This isn't the first time the Mini's 'looks big but isn't' styling has caused problems. At a UK dealer conference in May this year delegates were ushered into a car park as two examples of the new car were driven in to meet them. Despite the nearby presence of, amongst others, a 7-series, an X5, a 7.5 tonne curtain sided lorry and quite a big Portacabin, the Mini appeared, at a distance, bigger than all of them leading some delegates to wail 'It's going to crush us!' and run back inside, crying.
'This is becoming a bit of a problem,' said an anonymous BMW designer. 'For all our UK-made car projects we decided to work in a classically British mix of imperial and metric measurements to capture that elusive combination of inept working practise and low quality for which your motor industry is known. I think we may have got inches and centimetres muddled up.' Those living close to Land Rover's development centre in Warwickshire, where another BMW-developed vehicle, the new Range Rover, is undergoing final testing, have confirmed this theory. 'It's enormous,' confirmed local resident Clive Rancid, 'last week a pre-production prototype ran over my house.'
5 THINGS THAT LOOK SMALLER THAN THE NEW MINI BUT AREN'T
1: Ford Focus
2: Mercedes E class
3: Cadillac Elderado
4: Magic Johnson
5: Shropshire
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taffy1967
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Posted: Friday November 17th, 2006 12:15 pm |
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MINIS WILL BECOME MASSIVE WARNS MAN
Contrary to current rumour, and seemingly every edition of Auto Express at the moment, BMW's next generation Mini will in fact be a lot bigger than the current model, at least according to one completely made-up scientist who always appears in Sniff Petrol. Professor Ken Freeply of Nigel Havers College, Kettering claims that instead of merely growing slightly to take account of new legislation and packaging requirements, the forthcoming third generation of the popular fashion car will in fact expand in all directions to become pretty big. "It's quite simple," Prof Freeply explained. "The current Mini is almost 20 percent longer than the original Mini. Therefore, using a special equation which I have just thought of, the next generation model will grow by a similar amount, making it as big as a 3-series. This in itself is rather worrying, but that's nothing to the terrifying prospect we face if we extrapolate this generation-on-generation growth. I think we must face up to the certain knowledge that the sixth or seventh generation Mini will be 700 feet long. Or something." However, the clearly mental brainiac had some more reassuring news for those alarmed by his size-based findings. "Happily, I have also noticed that the gap between the original Mini and the launch of the new car was 42 years. So by the time the scary Mini that will crush us all comes along it will be the year 2211". Prof Freeply later denied that actually the next Mini is launched next year and that his maths was "rubbish".
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