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imaxxedout · Feb 11, 2003, 12:25 PM

How do you like that refined Chrylser engine in it?

- Ca$h

GoGoReggieXPowars · Feb 11, 2003, 12:32 PM

Do they have a Supercharged or Turbo model yet? Not that I can afford a car, I just want to drive one

Mastrap · Feb 11, 2003, 12:35 PM

Originally posted by imaxxedout:
How do you like that refined Chrylser engine in it?

- Ca$h

My Mini Cooper has a Rover engine in it. Just as it should be

typoon · Feb 11, 2003, 12:43 PM

Originally posted by imaxxedout:
How do you like that refined Chrylser engine in it?

- Ca$h

Since when does Chrysler own BMW? I thought the Mini's in the states where designed and made by BMW.

Mastrap · Feb 11, 2003, 12:49 PM

Originally posted by typoon:
Since when does Chrysler own BMW? I thought the Mini's in the states where designed and made by BMW.

BMW bought in the engine from Daimler-Chrysler. Which is funny as Daimler and BMW are rivals in the luxury car market.

imaxxedout · Feb 11, 2003, 12:50 PM

hahahahahaha. Ignorant fools.

BMW used Chrysler's engine in the mini cooper. Its the 1.6 liter engine thats also in export neons.

I love it! All you superior BMW/Mini people are driving a car powered by Chrysler baby! Woo woo!

marusin · Feb 11, 2003, 12:54 PM

What prompted this trolling today, cash? Get the insurance worries out of the way?

imaxxedout · Feb 11, 2003, 12:55 PM

Yep.

I just enjoy bringing 'uppity' people back down to reality.

- Ca$h

Mastrap · Feb 11, 2003, 01:00 PM

Originally posted by imaxxedout:
hahahahahaha. Ignorant fools.

BMW used Chrysler's engine in the mini cooper. Its the 1.6 liter engine thats also in export neons.

I love it! All you superior BMW/Mini people are driving a car powered by Chrysler baby! Woo woo!

Not quite:

Chrysler and BMW have a joint venture, Tritec Motors (Curitiba, Brazil), through which the companies will be producing 1.4- and 1.6-liter engines.

According to Laura J. Rosenbaum, product engineer, Joint Venture Engine Engineering, Chrysler Technology Center, the 1.6-liter engine, which will be used in the next-generation Chrysler Neon for international markets and the New Mini that will be produced by BMW in Great Britain , is being designed in CATIA in solids modeling rather than surfaces. One of the benefits from a production standpoint of this approach is because the solids model fully characterizes the object in question (such as indicating where the parting lines, fillets, or drafts are, which surface modeling can't show), when the model is given to a supplier, it is abundantly clear what it is.

marusin · Feb 11, 2003, 01:02 PM

Well based on the car I drive (a Mini) I guess I'm uppity... Don't really feel that way but oh well...

Could really care less who makes the engine in my car as long as it performs how it should. My Mini is not the fastest car by any means but the perfomance and handling (give me a curvy road any day) puts to shame any other car I've ever drove that is less than $30,000 (and the Mini was a good $10,000 less than that!)

Sealobo · Feb 11, 2003, 01:28 PM

Originally posted by imaxxedout:
How do you like that refined Chrylser engine in it?

- Ca$h

This is so last year.

Not entirely a Chrylser Engine though.

imaxxedout · Feb 11, 2003, 01:48 PM

It actually is. It's been in export neons for a while now.

- Ca$h

Diggory Laycock · Feb 11, 2003, 01:57 PM

I love my S - It's great:

RGB · Feb 11, 2003, 02:04 PM

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
Do they have a Supercharged or Turbo model yet? Not that I can afford a car, I just want to drive one

The MINI Cooper S is supercharged. I love that car, would have one if I could afford it.

Nimisys · Feb 11, 2003, 05:11 PM

meh i hate the drivers seating positon in it... feels like i am driving a truck. would not work for me.

capuchin · Feb 11, 2003, 05:11 PM

Originally posted by imaxxedout:
How do you like that refined Chrylser engine in it?

- Ca$h

Like it just fine. Thanks!

G4ME · Feb 11, 2003, 05:17 PM

good bait and trap move there cash, still i'd never take the neon

Kenneth · Feb 11, 2003, 06:48 PM

Any pictures from the MINI owner? This is one little sweet car.

imaxxedout · Feb 11, 2003, 06:54 PM

Originally posted by G4ME:
good bait and trap move there cash, still i'd never take the neon

Yeah, I know. You're all about image, not any performance.

- Ca$h

Fallout · Feb 11, 2003, 07:12 PM

How much head and leg room is there in those things? I don't think I'd fit, cause I'm pretty tall.

andymcdeee · Feb 11, 2003, 07:54 PM

Not too bad looking on the outside but DAMN has it got the worlds most ugly interior! Space age vomit.

capuchin · Feb 11, 2003, 08:20 PM

Originally posted by Fallout:
How much head and leg room is there in those things? I don't think I'd fit, cause I'm pretty tall.

I'm 6'2" and fit in there very comfortably. I even have a couple of inches head room, but you wouldn't want to be the guy in the backseat...

Sealobo · Feb 12, 2003, 01:27 AM

Originally posted by Nimisys:
meh i hate the drivers seating positon in it... feels like i am driving a truck. would not work for me.

I agree... i am replacing the driver's seat with an Recaro's before i take delivery of the car.

Nimisys · Feb 12, 2003, 02:47 AM

its not just the seat, its the center console ,the shifter, all of it... i just donlt feel down low and slung out in sports car like i think i should

perhaps recaros mounted lower int he body would help but i would have to feel it first hand to know for sure

Sealobo · Feb 12, 2003, 02:50 AM

Originally posted by Nimisys:
its not just the seat, its the center console ,the shifter, all of it... i just donlt feel down low and slung out in sports car like i think i should

perhaps recaros mounted lower int he body would help but i would have to feel it first hand to know for sure

Yeah, the mount is what matters. With the stock seat, the shifter tower is too low. It should be positioned like THIS:

Nimisys · Feb 12, 2003, 02:56 AM

if not just a touch higher... i want to feel like i am in a cockpit not on a park bench

Sealobo · Feb 12, 2003, 03:01 AM

Originally posted by Nimisys:
if not just a touch higher... i want to feel like i am in a cockpit not on a park bench

Yeah i know what you mean. When i sat into the Cooper i had the same feeling, pretty much like when i sat into the VW GTI for the first time: the driving position sucks.

I guess maybe this has a little to do with the high percentage of female customers? For what i know, girls perfer a higher seat so that they can get a better view.

marusin · Feb 12, 2003, 10:27 AM

Even the standard set of seats that comes in the Cooper (not the "sport" seats) are adjustable up and down. Putting them all the way down, I feel like my ass is scraping the pavement.

As for leg and head room, my 6'3" friend had no problem in the car and he said it actually had more leg and head room than his Grand Am. Now people in the backseat? That's another story...

The backseats fold down with the flip of a handle and if it's just two people in the car, you can actually haul a lot of stuff in it. I picked up my Mini because my old car (a 97 Jetta) had a zillion miles on it and I still wanted to get some money from a trade in. I commute > 100 miles a day r/t and the Mini has been great for me in terms of performance, style and economy.

imaxxedout · Feb 12, 2003, 02:32 PM

They have way more headroom than my SVX. I'm 5'9" and have quasi spikey hair, and my hair touches the roof of my SVX sometimes.

But as for wanting a cockpit, you can't get much more cockpit than this:

Fighter plane windows own joo.

- Ca$h

Riddler · Feb 12, 2003, 03:44 PM

Owned a Cooper for about a year, love it.

As a Brit I like to think 50% of the car was designed by Rover before BMW aquired them, at least it's assembled in the UK.

The engine is O.K, I would have preferred a Rover K-Series though.

RGB · Feb 12, 2003, 04:05 PM

I fell in love with the MINI Cooper when I sat in it last year at the Chicago Auto Show. The base seats just fit my body perfectly. And I really enjoyed the design of the rest of the interior as well. It's all a matter of personal preference I suppose.