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thanks a lot Snake. I got it now. Ok i know the basics, but in greek, not in english..

Anyone else find the speedo a bit...too large? I mean, I like clear, readable gauges, but this is quite overkill!

BMW wants to hide their unreliable MINI behind new pseudo modern style

WTH are you talking about.
It's not more or less pseudo-modern than the 911 is.
Unreliable. W-F ?!

Btw, the new MINI will be more reliable & bettter built. In the Mk1 the BMW quality control standards were not present yet, but the Mk2 is design & bulit completely by BMW standards.

I had heard that Fiat was going to build the engine for this car...Is that correct?

Yeh man that is huge.

Now you cant use the practical excuse that you were unable to read the speedo.....What were they thinking?

No!

The new MINI engines were developed in cooperation with PSA Peugeot Citroen.

BMW was fully responsible for engine negineering & development, while PSA for manufacturing, purchasing & logistics.

The engines will be produced in BMW / MINI engine plant in England (for MINI), and in PSA plant in France (for PSA cars).


Regarding the big speedo: it's so big to incorporate nav screen in the nav equipped models.

oh ok, Peugeot. Thats right. I got confused i think.... But Im glad to here that BMW is still handling engineering and production it seems.

Irony is a difficult business, isn't it?

Jesus, this car is really crap regarding long term durability! This is a first hand
experience and is backed up from what I read from different reports. A piss take...

I read a statistic that the Mini has the highest product malfunction to repeat customer ratio of any "normal" car. And by normal, I mean non-exotic car. Minis have been problem prone, yet their clientele keep coming back for more, regardless.

Fiat are working on the Minis great rival, the Fiat 500

FIAT500.com

Powertrain is dissapointing... I would have liked to see a 150 hp base and a 200 hp S model to rival the GTI in power figures.

The Works will take on the GTI.

Exactly. Btw, JCW (John Copper Works) is for MINI what M is for BMW: a high performance version.

Now that the E70 X5 is officially out, we seem to have to wait until the 11th to see the R56 fully in the open ?

Yep. Except there will be a leak. Again.

New MINI press kit is already on bmwmediapool (not bmw.press !) - so expect leaks any time from now on.

Too expensive...

I have a JCW Cooper S It's so kickass

But it not the same as you say. John Cooper has his own company, and makes his kit FOR BMW, with full BMW factory warranty.

I know what I said - I just wanted to point out what JCW meant for Mini: a high performance version (just like M for BMW).

Nothing about company status.

lol, ok. So why don't you e-mail me the pics you surely have, and I'll be the leak. Exclusive on GCZ

Sure. But only under one condition: if you will pay the lawyers in BMW AG vs. me lawsuit.

Sorry.

Wait till tomorrow.

How was that song.
Wait till tommorow ...