The Mini Coupe is even worse. Looks like it's been sat on.
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Or as I read one day, like a car with a baseball cap on backwards. Mini is in danger of ruining a good product with re-designs. They've tweaked the standard model again and it's apparently pretty awful.
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@WC "But I've always liked the more brutish Astons..." My Bro-in-law had a 6-cylinder DBS back in the day, which was absolutely gorgeous. It was from a time when Aston lost money hand over fist (possibly an urban myth but B-I-L said they £200 lost per car...on the radiator grill alone). David Brown (who gave Astons their 'DB' nomenclature) were tractor makers too before they bought the car marque.
Of course the whole performance car market is an exercise in stupidity/vanity, there being nowhere in the UK that one can legally go above 70 mph (tracks and test areas aside) which makes entirely superfluous 9/10ths of the engineering that makes Porsches, etc, so expensive. I knew a wealthy (new money - no class) family who had a collection of high-end Mercedes and Beemers on their front drive and a Ferrari tucked away for the weekends, who pootled around SE London in them, rarely venturing beyond the (old) GLC boundary. Pointless, other than to massage some desperate egos, I would suggest.
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This thread is painful to follow as I'm in the market for something with an engine and the following:
* An Audi/Merc/BMW badge
* Christmas Tree lights - check
* Aggressive styling - check
* Blacked out windows - check (through I don't really want them, they come with the christmas lights)
* V/R/S/Sports/Turbo branding - check (but I'll be asking the don't include the branding)
* A bigger 4x4 style version of a nicer smaller car - check
* EtcPosted 11 years ago #
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