From Motoringfile.com:

http://www.motoringfile.com/2004/05/...anges#comments


Highlights:

Very significant changes

1) Automatic transmission with steering wheel mounted paddle shifter buttons (MCS) available beginning 1/2005 production.

2) LSD (Limited Slip Differential) available for the MCS with 6-speed manual transmission only, as of 1/2005 production.

Enjoy!

 

 

the LSD and the projector headlight are so nice.....

anyone how much doesn it cost for a set of those head light??

Ed

 

Here's a direct link: http://www.motoringfile.com/2004/05/...s_2005_changes

Like Cooper4us said there are a couple very significant changes and bunch of others that haven't been mentioned before...

 

I asked for an LSD, and looks like I'm getting one. Great !

If it's good enout for a Dodge Neon (STR-4), it's good enough
for BMW/MINI.

 

Excellent.
Now SOMEBODY find me a picture of a purple haze MINI.
Please!
Anyone? Bueller?

 

Gabe,

Are there any real good pictures of the new Purple and Blue colors? I have seen the ones on your website, but each one looks slightly different, so it is hard to tell what the true color really is. I guess we will have to wait to see one in person.

I hope the LSD is a Quaife unit. I really want that option as standard equipment. It is an option I have always wanted but never wanted to pay the cost to have it aftermarket. I am hoping the cost is in the $500 range. Heck the SRT-4 put it in as standard this year along with a bunch of other options and only raised the base price by that amount.

 

>>Gabe,
>>
>>Are there any real good pictures of the new Purple and Blue colors? I have seen the ones on your website, but each one looks slightly different, so it is hard to tell what the true color really is. I guess we will have to wait to see one in person.

Purple Haze (Black Eye Purple):



(picture from MINI2)

 

This is what's driving me nuts - the picture of the car looks WAY different than the swatch - much more blue. Argh.

 

It's purple; you're in a haze.

 

'05 MCS stripper w/LSD for me. That sounds like a XXX request, but you know what I mean.
Chris

 

How much for the LSD?????

 

>>>>Gabe,
>>>>
>>>>Are there any real good pictures of the new Purple and Blue colors? I have seen the ones on your website, but each one looks slightly different, so it is hard to tell what the true color really is. I guess we will have to wait to see one in person.
>>
>>Purple Haze (Black Eye Purple):
>>
>>
>>
>> (picture from MINI2)

Gabe,

The pic is aweful. The car looks like a different color from the paint square in the upper left hand corner. That is the difficulty I am having with these colors. The Purple haze sort of looks blue and then sometimes looks purple. The hyper blue sometimes looks blue and then in some pictures is looks like a steel grey.

 

and that's from MINI no less. Here's another someone posted on MINI2 from the UK configurator. I think the answer lies somewhere between the two.

 

Funny, even the pic from the UK configurator looks more purple than the one shown here when I pull it up. Pantone color number anyone?

 

>>I hope the LSD is a Quaife unit. <<


And I hope the LSD is Owsley! HA HA HA!!

 

>>>>I hope the LSD is a Quaife unit. <<
>>
>>
>>And I hope the LSD is Owsley! HA HA HA!!

Way good- Owsley LSD for a Purple Haze Cooper. When is the tie-die interior option coming out??