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Car Forum / MINI / December 2005Mini
The new Mini Cooper and Cooper S are currently BMW’s smallest offering, and thus also the smallest car mass-produced for sale in the American market. The New Mini Cooper is both safer and larger than the previous model. Both Cooper and Cooper S are both 18 inches longer and 14 inches wider than the original, making it 50% larger then the previous car overall. Safety systems on the New Mini include: * Rigid passenger safety cell * Front and rear crumple zones * Side impact door beams * Dual front airbags * Side airbags * Full side curtain airbags * Anti Lock Brakes (ABS) * Available Xenon HID Headlights * Available Traction Control Many of these innovations were never heard of, or invented, when the original Mini was conceived. Two models are available, as mentioned before, with both currently being sold in the US market. The base model Mini Cooper features a 1.6L inline 4-cylinder engine producing 115 HP. The higher-end Mini Cooper S produces 163 HP (170HP for the 2005 model) with the same 1.6L engine mated to an intercooled supercharger system. "Madmax" wrote a pile of un-requested piffle <lots of piffle snipped> Mark, i'm sure your very happy with your purchase, BUT, I must admit that the statistic's don't make my "things to post in a newsgroup to impress people" list. Have a spiffing christmas won't ya... Mick > The new Mini Cooper and Cooper S are currently BMW’s smallest > offering, and thus also the smallest car mass-produced for sale in the [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > The higher-end Mini Cooper S produces 163 HP (170HP for the 2005 model) > with the same 1.6L engine mated to an intercooled supercharger system. I suppose 50% bigger is good? What about 90% heavier? All good things when there are increasingly more cars on the roads every year! I still don't think the power to weight ratio is up to much when you consider that a proper mini would need about 100bhp to be as quick, and every extra bhp is worth twice what the BMW has due to the weight difference. But live and let live, if you want a new mini then buy one, but why can't you use the new mini newsgroup? Do you take your Bini to a rover dealer to get it serviced? I don't think so miniman > The new Mini Cooper and Cooper S are currently BMWs smallest >offering, and thus also the smallest car mass-produced for sale in the >American market. Fascinating. What a limited choice of cars you have available to you. No wonder you think the BMW thing is something special. Here in the rest of the world we have choice. If we want a modern Euro-hatch there are dozens. Most of them beat the BMW thing for performance, value, style, practicality and pretty much anything else you care to name. If you want a genuinely small car - which the BMW things is not - then there are plenty of those as well. Still nothing which compares to a real Mini as a city car, though. Amazing after 46 years. Regards, David Betts davidb@minilist.org The Mini Gallery: http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?m=64635537103&n=1366070334 Theres me thinking the "new Mini" was a girls car? >> The new Mini Cooper and Cooper S are currently BMW's smallest >>offering, and thus also the smallest car mass-produced for sale in the [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > The Mini Gallery: > http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?m=64635537103&n=1366070334 oh no, it's well suited to either male *or* female hairdresser's > Theres me thinking the "new Mini" was a girls car? > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> The Mini Gallery: >> http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?m=64635537103&n=1366070334
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