Don't know if you guys saw the Jun addition of Motortrend but the Mini was one of the cars in the battle of the best handling car in the Land.
Not Bad for The Mini. Beat out some cars in the different categories

http://www.motortrend.com/features/1...t_handling_car

The cars included:

The Mini GP
Lotus EXige
Porsche Cayman S
BMW 335i twin turbo
Honda s2000
Mazdaspeed3 GT
Mitsubishi Evo
Honda Cvic Si
Porsche 911 GT3
Corvette Z06

 

I did like his comments about the Cooper after each drive. However, I detest Motor Trend as an enthusiasts magazine.

 

And why is this?


Speaking of enthousisast magazines, I need to resubscribe to Road&Track

 

I think I gave up on them when they voted the Vega as car of the year. I know I stopped subscribing to them then.

Of course, they did a bang up job when they announced a Cadillac as car of the year this year as well. Yeah, let's build that credibility. LOL!

Just the overall credibility of thier rag has left me most unimpressed.

I am not a fan of Car and Driver either. They should just change thier name to "BMW r US". The straw that broke the camels back there was a sport sedan shootout. BMW won of course, even though the Beemer had many eletrical problems. Even though the Beemers DSC was acting up, so they said (they used results from an earlier testing of the car for the article). They even used the performance test from another car as the one they had just did not feel like it was running right.

I used to read R&T, but it has been a long while. I really just gave up on the lot of them after being burned by two of them so badly. I will admit that some of the writers are entertaining to read as long as you are not taking them seriously.

 

Grassroots Motorsports for the win!

 

Amen!. Written for the regular guy/gal. They have practicality in mind in their write-ups.