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
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