Minis

dainesefreak · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Karma :

The new ones, anyone had any trouble with these or is it just me.

I've had about 3 in the last two weeks trying to give me hassle. Trying to race, cutting me up, pulling out in front of me on dual carriageways and not moving over when it's clear and to add insult to injury I had one that did all three, then tried to sandwich me between him and the central reservation!

What is it? They seem to think that these things are some kind of shit hot sports car. Rolling Eyes

What's the thought process, "Hmm there's a large capacity sports bike . . . . I think I can take him".

Is it just me?

Even when I'm not on the bike and see em driving around they seem to think they're some sort of rally car.

N_Tart · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Karma :

Little things with big attitudes Rolling Eyes

I blame The Italian Job! Laughing

Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

It's when you see them jumping over roof tops and driving around on 2 wheels that you really need to worry...
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ProXimaCore · Dougal Joined: 01 May 2003 Karma :

Aren't the new ones related to BMW in some sort of way now? That would explain it.

But yeah I have noticed this a lot too. Was more back when I was on the NSR though. They were about an even match for my restricted NSR from 50mph onwards so I couldn't get away from them. Sad

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mr jamez · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Karma :

I bloody hate the things Mad

Often driven by stuck up 20-something's Wink

https://www.fatblokeracing.org/marketeering/IHateTheBMWMINI/

https://www.vidiauto.com/slike_crash/0.437243001025177810_bmw_mini_2002.jpg

yay Very Happy

cliff · Doctor Sicknote Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Karma :

My best friend had just spent £9000 on a new mini. I say mini, but the fact that theyr'e made by Bmw is probably why all the youngens are getting them. They think a 1.6 is fast. Rolling Eyes

Needless to say both my h100 and my Nsr beat him off the green! Smile

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stryker · Brolly Dolly Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Karma :

Seen the price of new minis? You have to remember it takes someone with a particularly small brain-pan to buy a mini (same as those who buy 4x4s for dropping kids off at school) so by default I give these people a wide birth as they are lacking the IQ of 75 to drive a vehicle in safety.

Tarmacsurfer · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

The newer Cooper S is actually respectably fast for a cage, sitting around 165bhp and will hit 60 from standing at about the 7 seconds mark.
Also, if you happen to pass through or around Birmingham at all, look out for an incredibly shabby old minivan with blacked out windows. He's running a supercharged Vmax motor in the thing, never pick an argument with it in a straight line.
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mrchips · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Karma :

What do you expect if its BMW owned? I don't like the new ones at all.

Demonic69 · The Pink Rhino Joined: 31 May 2002 Karma :

There were new minis beating Imperzas at the drag strip last time I was there with bikes and cars.
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Marc_Buck · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 31 May 2004 Karma :

The New mini's suck, they are like vw beetles (driven by 20 year old blonde women, who like to race/show off).

Now the old mini's are a different matter. Twisted Evil

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mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

They're a yuppie's car, and they're not mini anymore. It's a nice wee car for what it is, don't get me wrong, but it's not a patch on the proper mini in terms of actually being a mini. Make sense anyone? Confused

Would you rather have one of these:
https://www.fb.jful.jp/~fb021g/mini/mini06.jpg
or one of these?
https://www.motorsportscenter.com/uploads/red_mini_cooper_static.jpg

mr jamez · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Karma :

That mini looks great, is it your's?

BMW can kiss my arse, I hate the bini Neutral

mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

Nope, as much as I want a British Racing Green one (with a inline four in both ends Wink

), those are both from a quick scurry through Google images.

Something else which annoys me is the fact that I always understood the patterns on the roof to be something owners did to their cars to add character, now you get the 'character' added for you at the factory, removing all individuality altogether. Evil or Very Mad

mr jamez · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Karma :

Agreed, I also don't like the Germans putting the Union jack on the roof from the factory, sounds a bit petty but it is a bit insulting and it removes any meaning behind having the flag on the car. So many reasons why it just isn't a mini, never will be and I wish they would just stop trying to be accepted as one Razz

Character and soul come at an extra cost from the BMW factory, though it still doesn't have any Wink

I have some engine transplant plans for mine, oh yes, well when I have some cash Smile

tony532 · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 May 2004 Karma :

horrible cars

look like the old mini but on steroids

the cooper s might be nippy

but the others are painfully slow driven by twenty something women who think they look the dogs

and the interier design of them looks like a 40 pound stereo from comet

one tried to race me when i had the rs125 and they ended up losing badly

the one good point they have is a gps system as standard

Robby · Dirty Old Man Joined: 16 May 2002 Karma :

Hideous little cars.

I dislike hatchbacks as a matter of course, but these are overpriced wannabe hot hatches. Doesn't matter how much power you give an engine, if you feed it through the front wheels I'm going to laugh at your car.

dainesefreak · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Karma :

Tarmacsurfer · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

Heh, for most it's the suprise factor of the thing taking off in a rapidly expanding cloud of tyre rubber with a noise like a sack of cats in a bonfire.
To give it it's due though, it is pretty damned quick. From what I've heard (know one of the mechanics who's helped with the project), there's been alot of structural work on the chassis to lighten it as well as an obscenely tweaked motor. It was built specifically to bait the local 'yoof' with their tweaked BMWs and suchlike.
My only encounter of it so far was being left for dead off a roundabout on the A45 into Birmingham. I was on a ZZR1100, so not exactly a slouch Wink

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tony532 · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 May 2004 Karma :

to tarmacsurfer:-

i do hope you followed it and sailed past it when it couldnt go past another car.

makes me laugh when car drivers go on about how fast a subaru impretser or ferrari or whatever is

as soon a there is a line of cars built up you just sail past them. I am usually at home cracking open a cold can of stella when my work mates are still sat in traffic in their cars

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