Showing posts with label Mini Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mini Cooper. Show all posts
Mini Fun
On the back of their excellent video to encourage Americans to drive manuals, Mini have now produced this fun albeit very surreal little film... Thanks to Autoguide.com for covering the story of a competition won by a Rutledge Wood look-a-like to sum up the perfect test drive in six words. Mini then made the video based on his entry of:
Stewardess, Salt Flats, Paratroopers, Sushi and Falconer
The amazing thing, though, is that it actually makes the pig-ugly Mini Coupe look really good. It must be a colour thing because all the ones used in the early reviews were white with a red roof and looked awful.
Incidentally, I'd have gone with:
Nigella, A483, Tranmere Rovers, Bacon and Marillion
Stewardess, Salt Flats, Paratroopers, Sushi and Falconer
The amazing thing, though, is that it actually makes the pig-ugly Mini Coupe look really good. It must be a colour thing because all the ones used in the early reviews were white with a red roof and looked awful.
Incidentally, I'd have gone with:
Nigella, A483, Tranmere Rovers, Bacon and Marillion
Sonic The Hothatch
Is it the latest game from Nintendo?No, it's the latest car from Chevrolet - as covered in this Autoguide story.
It's another example of a rebadged Daewoo creeping into the American market - I suspect it will do badly simply because of its size but I suspect the Chevrolet badge should help a bit.
It is a 4 cylinder 1.4 engine - enough to make Louis-Joseph Chevrolet spin in his grave - albeit at an economical rate of rpm.
The paintjob is reminiscent of a Scalextric Mini Cooper but the car seems to be what we in Britain would call an Aveo but with Spark rear doors bolted on.
They say there won't be an "SS" version. SS has nothing to do with the Nazis in this case but is the sports tuning moniker that Chevrolet use on higher performance models. Sonic does have previous racing conotations though...
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