R50/53 A MINI article with a different slant
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A MINI article with a different slant
It's a thoroughly British kind of article, but hey, it's a British car, right?
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...4357_1,00.html
I thought it was kind of an interesting read. For about the first 5 paragraphs, I thought I was reading the wrong page, but he eventually gets around to talking about cars. It's interesting to see how the MINI is viewed in it's home country.
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...4357_1,00.html
I thought it was kind of an interesting read. For about the first 5 paragraphs, I thought I was reading the wrong page, but he eventually gets around to talking about cars. It's interesting to see how the MINI is viewed in it's home country.
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What we have here, then, is a fun, comfortable and, providing you don’t spec it up with anything at all, extremely well priced car that’s so classless it could drive through Ian Blair’s legs and he wouldn’t even notice.
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Originally Posted by ThreeAlarmChiliRed
They use classless a little differently over there.
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Whoa, with the exceptions of Peter Egan, Dan Neil (in the LA Times),and Jamie Kitmann, most of the articles by auto journalists that I read have the style, wit and amusement content of an accountant's grocery list. This guy rocks - thanks for the intro
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Originally Posted by mini552
Whoa, with the exceptions of Peter Egan, Dan Neil (in the LA Times),and Jamie Kitmann, most of the articles by auto journalists that I read have the style, wit and amusement content of an accountant's grocery list. This guy rocks - thanks for the intro
He's on Topgear (where I know him from first anyway) - you should watch those and 5th Gear if you like the review
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Thanks again for the post, its a great resource.
Took peek at another couple of reviews and got some more good laughes.
A quote from the SLK55 one:
"I wanted bright red seats but these are only available in a two-tone combo with black. “I don’t want that. It will look like I’m sitting in an advertisement for Lynx aftershave.” But it was no good. The only single-tone red was the same colour as a placenta. And there were only four other choices, German Shoe Grey, Hearing Aid Beige, Mrs Thatcher Twinset Blue, or Albert Speer Black. I went for the placenta."
Took peek at another couple of reviews and got some more good laughes.
A quote from the SLK55 one:
"I wanted bright red seats but these are only available in a two-tone combo with black. “I don’t want that. It will look like I’m sitting in an advertisement for Lynx aftershave.” But it was no good. The only single-tone red was the same colour as a placenta. And there were only four other choices, German Shoe Grey, Hearing Aid Beige, Mrs Thatcher Twinset Blue, or Albert Speer Black. I went for the placenta."
wow, i think i'm going to go right out and get me one of those MCC's...Very nice read 
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That is one strange review. It takes getting two thirds of the way into it before he talks about the car. And then this statement:
"And the boot is barely big enough for the gram of coke you can’t buy any more."
"And the boot is barely big enough for the gram of coke you can’t buy any more."
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He should come across the pond occasionally to contribute a review from the US perspective...
"Whether you are running to your chemist (pharmacy) to figure out the new Medicare drug plan or trying to outrun a triggerhappy **** Cheney, the new MCSc is the cat's pajamas... The car may be so small that there is no place for the Domestic Syping program to hide a bug, but at least you won't be among the worst sufferers of the abandoned fuel mileage CAFE program..."
Well... maybe it wouldn't work over here....
Bill
"Whether you are running to your chemist (pharmacy) to figure out the new Medicare drug plan or trying to outrun a triggerhappy **** Cheney, the new MCSc is the cat's pajamas... The car may be so small that there is no place for the Domestic Syping program to hide a bug, but at least you won't be among the worst sufferers of the abandoned fuel mileage CAFE program..."
Well... maybe it wouldn't work over here....
Bill
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Originally Posted by Jersey_Bill
He should come across the pond occasionally to contribute a review from the US perspective...
"Whether you are running to your chemist (pharmacy) to figure out the new Medicare drug plan or trying to outrun a triggerhappy **** Cheney, the new MCSc is the cat's pajamas... The car may be so small that there is no place for the Domestic Syping program to hide a bug, but at least you won't be among the worst sufferers of the abandoned fuel mileage CAFE program..."
Well... maybe it wouldn't work over here....
Bill
"Whether you are running to your chemist (pharmacy) to figure out the new Medicare drug plan or trying to outrun a triggerhappy **** Cheney, the new MCSc is the cat's pajamas... The car may be so small that there is no place for the Domestic Syping program to hide a bug, but at least you won't be among the worst sufferers of the abandoned fuel mileage CAFE program..."
Well... maybe it wouldn't work over here....
Bill
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Originally Posted by Jersey_Bill
He should come across the pond occasionally to contribute a review from the US perspective...
"Whether you are running to your chemist (pharmacy) to figure out the new Medicare drug plan or trying to outrun a triggerhappy **** Cheney, the new MCSc is the cat's pajamas... The car may be so small that there is no place for the Domestic Syping program to hide a bug, but at least you won't be among the worst sufferers of the abandoned fuel mileage CAFE program..."
Well... maybe it wouldn't work over here....
Bill
"Whether you are running to your chemist (pharmacy) to figure out the new Medicare drug plan or trying to outrun a triggerhappy **** Cheney, the new MCSc is the cat's pajamas... The car may be so small that there is no place for the Domestic Syping program to hide a bug, but at least you won't be among the worst sufferers of the abandoned fuel mileage CAFE program..."
Well... maybe it wouldn't work over here....
Bill
Nice!!! HAHAHAHAHA. I like the "triggerhappy **** Cheney" part the best!
I'm glad to hear the accurate staement about a proper little sports car-hey isn't that why I fell in love with the MINI in the first place! I still say wohoo every time I drive so I'd agree with him on that point. Now about fitting that gram of coke in the back...
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Originally Posted by Jersey_Bill
He should come across the pond occasionally to contribute a review from the US perspective...
"Whether you are running to your chemist (pharmacy) to figure out the new Medicare drug plan or trying to outrun a triggerhappy **** Cheney, the new MCSc is the cat's pajamas... The car may be so small that there is no place for the Domestic Syping program to hide a bug, but at least you won't be among the worst sufferers of the abandoned fuel mileage CAFE program..."
Well... maybe it wouldn't work over here....
Bill
"Whether you are running to your chemist (pharmacy) to figure out the new Medicare drug plan or trying to outrun a triggerhappy **** Cheney, the new MCSc is the cat's pajamas... The car may be so small that there is no place for the Domestic Syping program to hide a bug, but at least you won't be among the worst sufferers of the abandoned fuel mileage CAFE program..."
Well... maybe it wouldn't work over here....
Bill
Maybe you should do it!
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