The Mini

[FarmerPug]

Apparently the mini is 50. But i seen this:

its funny how bmw dont understand what the word mini means.

[lozz]

ilike the old minis but icouid never get used to driving one there too small,
ive had 6 1st one being a 1973 model my last one a 1275 gt inearly died in that after having the steering wheel shuved thru my rib cage,
not much room for survival in them in a crash,

they shouid of been named the Bump finder

[plod]

Oh contraire my friend

BMW have took on board the criticism for the size of the Mini - new countrman been nicknamed the Maxi I believe
and have developed a smaller version called the rocketman
If the demand is there, it will be put into production


can't remember how many mini's i've had
off top of head
74 mini 1000 - didn't have much money and went up local motor factors and bought cheapest clearance paint they had which was pea green
81 mini 1100 sprite
79 mini 1275gt
78 mini van - I fitted a 1275 into it
66 mini cooper
and about 4 other mini 1000's

[FarmerPug]

the thing is the countryman is massive i know but even the normal mini is big, my aunt has a cooper S and the time i had my panda i parked it beside it and the panda was smaller both width and length yet had more room, you could seat 5 comfortably as opposed to being cramped in the mini, and the pandas boot was bigger and better shaped. The new mini is very badly packaged, the new panda is the closest thing there is to the old mini, and ive sat in one, one time not being tall is a good thing, i sat perfectly into it.

[CountryPug]

lol, the closest I've got to driving a REAL Mini is my Metro. My dad used to have a Mini pick-up, he shoe-horned an Austin 1600cc engine into it which made it go like stink, never upgraded the brakes tho, it had drums all round

Safety rules dictate that even small cars have to be big now and 2bh I think BMW did a great job with the new Mini, I drove a friends Cooper and it was just awesome, handled so well, the gearbox and steering were amazing, pity its a girls car... what u should do is go out with a chick that drives one and then offer to drive everywhere, she won't want to go in your car as its a 406, only 1 option left...u get to drive the mini

[plod]

off top of my head, the old mini was just over 10ft
the BMW mini is about 12ft
the maxi, sorry, I mean countryman is over 13ft

the rocketman will be about 11ft long

[plod]

lol, the closest I've got to driving a REAL Mini is my Metro. My dad used to have a Mini pick-up, he shoe-horned an Austin 1600cc engine into it which made it go like stink, never upgraded the brakes tho, it had drums all round

The 66 cooper I bought, had a 1750 Maxi engine in it
Never drove it, as turned out to be rotten as a pear

[CountryPug]

1750 Maxi engine

[plod]

off top of my head, the old mini was just over 10ft
the BMW mini is about 12ft
the maxi, sorry, I mean countryman is over 13ft

the rocketman will be about 11ft long

BMW Mini 12ft 2
BMW Maxi 13ft 5

BMW Rocketman 11ft

I believe mini was 10ft 1

[lozz]

lol, the closest I've got to driving a REAL Mini is my Metro. My dad used to have a Mini pick-up, he shoe-horned an Austin 1600cc engine into it which made it go like stink, never upgraded the brakes tho, it had drums all round

The 66 cooper I bought, had a 1750 Maxi engine in it
Never drove it, as turned out to be rotten as a pear

we put a maxi engine into a mini to be used for Grass tracking,
it never got used as the engine kept over heating engine was way to big for it too cool properly,
we even put vents in the bonnet and it still overheated,

shame tho as it wouid of been a good pocket rocket

[plod]

This one had a radiator mounted to the outside of the grill aperture with a custom louvred metal cover to protect it

[FarmerPug]

good old fashoned tuning just add a bigger engine.

[CountryPug]

good old fashoned tuning just add a bigger engine.

Ano, the 2.7 Twin-Turbo HDi out of the 407 dropped into the front of a 406 would be a nice bit of kit

[Gary406]

a lad i knew about 10 years ago had one of these mini coopers. it was R reg . it was a minter.
but personally i would never buy a mini . not in a million years
but out of most this is my favourite model


his even had the union jack roof

[omega]

lol, the closest I've got to driving a REAL Mini is my Metro. My dad used to have a Mini pick-up, he shoe-horned an Austin 1600cc engine into it which made it go like stink, never upgraded the brakes tho, it had drums all round

The 66 cooper I bought, had a 1750 Maxi engine in it
Never drove it, as turned out to be rotten as a pear

we put a maxi engine into a mini to be used for Grass tracking,
it never got used as the engine kept over heating engine was way to big for it too cool properly,
we even put vents in the bonnet and it still overheated,

shame tho as it wouid of been a good pocket rocket

you used the wrong engine in the car ,i raced class 6 and was club champion in my mini with a 2000 twin cam lancia engine in the front running 14 inch wheels to get the gearing right.but blew that up after 6 races and replaced it with a 1600 lancia twin cam that was faster and reved harder.
on the grass its all about revs