Boy, do I feel stupid! After having our 2002 MCS for 6 months, I finally noticed that the stylized "S" in MINI Cooper S is designed to look like a curvy road!!! Am I the only one who missed this??? I have read everything on the MCS and never saw any commentary on this neat little touch!

 

You mean like this?




There's a guy thata posted over on M2 that framed a shot of his car in a road almost identical to the "S". Very cool.

 

If someone compressed that, that could be a cool looking sig.

 

When I was reading reviews of the S when it first came out, they said no one at BMW would reveal what the "S" stood for. There were several answers, but they said it didn't mean "sport". One of the words was a german translation for "fun" and another was that it wasn't an S at all, it was just a stylized road like you said. I wish I still had the article...

 

What about supercharged? :smile:

What about some marking mumbo jumbo.

It is an S, just like an RSX-Type S, or a Corolla S, or a Beetle Turbo S..etc...etc...etc...


What we need now is a Cooper Type R to join the rest of the crowd of Automotive creative nomenclature.

 

The Cooper's 'S' looks like it was stolen straight from the Corolla S.

 

>>Boy, do I feel stupid! After having our 2002 MCS for 6 months, I finally noticed that the stylized "S" in MINI Cooper S is designed to look like a curvy road!!! Am I the only one who missed this???


You ARE KIDDING, right?

 

The "S" stands for "STARFENUGEN" which means FUN in German. Thats the scoop on the "S".

 

[quote]Originally posted by smokey4:
You mean like this?


*cough*



Here is another shot from that same photoshoot.



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That looks sweet, nice pics Dave.

Where exaclty is that. Are there a lot of good twisties by there?

 

That's on Flagstaff mountain just west of Boulder Colorado. You would take HWY 93 or U.S. 36 to Baseline and then head due west. Baseline heads straight up the mountain. Lots of fun.

 

That pic of the first S curve is AWESOME!!!

 

>>The "S" stands for "STARFENUGEN" which means FUN in German. Thats the scoop on the "S".

actually, the word is Spaß (pronounced "spauss&quot

 

Wow, Dave in Denver - 27,000 miles? That's some mean feat, in a short time.

I just passed 11,000 kilometres in 5 months. That a lousy 6,000 miles or so. And I thought I was MOTORIN'.

Guess not!

 

I've been thinking about sneaking a Superman "S" somewhere onto my MCS. THAT "S" would mean super, and I think most of us agree the car is super.

 

Have it put on vinyl either on the bonnet, in place of stripes, or on the roof.

 

I had a 67 Austin Mini Cooper S – so the S predates BMW.

Vincent

 

 

Somewhere on the miniusa.com site I saw/read that there was a disagreement between John Cooper and Alec Issigonis about what the S originally stood for. One of them said Sport and one said Special. Anything that BMW says would be apocryphal, or a re-definition at best.

 

>Wow, Dave in Denver - 27,000 miles? That's some mean feat, in a short time.

Yes, 27,000+ miles and I still have a month to go before the first year is up.

 

The original by David Hockney....

 

It's an "S" let it be known,

MB

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>>>>The "S" stands for "STARFENUGEN" which means FUN in German. Thats the scoop on the "S".
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>>actually, the word is Spaß (pronounced "spauss&quot

While we're correcting each other... You've got the spelling right, but the pronunciation is more like shpahss.

 

>>>>Boy, do I feel stupid! After having our 2002 MCS for 6 months, I finally noticed that the stylized "S" in MINI Cooper S is designed to look like a curvy road!!! Am I the only one who missed this???
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>>You ARE KIDDING, right?

Nope, me too. But I don't drive an S!

 

>>I've been thinking about sneaking a Superman "S" somewhere onto my MCS. THAT "S" would mean super, and I think most of us agree the car is super.

It's not a Superman "S", but it's a start