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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 02:38 PM
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If you've being reading previous threads about the steptronic paddles and the pictures... you'll know way I'm about to talk about ..
Remember when this one dude posted a picture of the Steptronic paddle on the MINI COOPER ... and somehow there was a high degree of critism claiming that the photo was just a " BAD PHOTOSHOP JOB " ... well .. today .. I paid a visit to MINI OF MARKHAM .. there was a MC with CVT .. and it had the PADDLE SHIFT buttons like the one in the picture from previous posting ... the picture is really ... OH GOD >! ! ! ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ! ! ! !
 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 02:39 PM
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I meant to say ....


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ! !!!!
 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 02:43 PM
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thats extremely unfortunate.
 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 03:06 PM
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>>... the picture is really ... OH GOD >! ! ! ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ! ! ! !

He he he, like MINI he got the responce like the paddles, back asswards.
 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 03:09 PM
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I'm not getting this EVER!!

 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 03:46 PM
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from what i've heard, that picture is the one with the fake paddles!
 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 03:52 PM
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I heard that as well but recently was told the oppsite by several people who should know.
 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 04:09 PM
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When I picked up my MINI on 06/02/03 and the MA was thumbing through the book I pointed them out to her - she had never seen them before.

So as of 06/02/03 they are in the MINI manual exactly like they way they look in the pic above.
 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 08:05 PM
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I was one of the boys who cried wolf...oh well...I don't believe anything I see on the internet
 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 08:34 PM
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I don't get it, so it's true?
If that pic is real, that's horrible placement for the paddles. I still think the pic is faked.
 
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Old Jun 9, 2003 | 08:35 PM
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Ken&MINI.com, when are you gonna learn to carry your digital camera at all times!! ??
 
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Old Jun 10, 2003 | 12:25 AM
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There's too much compression to do a good armchair guess about the validity of the pic (i had it cranked up to 500x zoom and i started seeing some major compression artifacts), but the extra square shadow on the left 'paddle' strikes me as odd... but the 'paddles' don't seem like mirror images of each other, but then again, there's the nasty compression which can hide a lot of things... either way they look more like Steptronic Plungers than Paddles... let's hope this is no-where near a final design..

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Old Jun 10, 2003 | 11:40 AM
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AARRGGHH ! ! ! I know I know ... but I don't have a D-Camera..... I'm going to get one very soon !!! Then .. I'll show all of you guys those nasty Paddles on the steering wheel !!
 
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