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Prowse · Oct 13th, 2006, 01:32 PM

Apparently the 'old' MINI used to cost as much as a 3-series to manufacture. Seeing at the car sold at a lower price point something had to be done to keep the bean-counters happy. There was talk at one point of the new model having a plastic roof!

Oct 13th, 2006, 01:32 PM	#11
Prowse MINI2 Master Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Lancs Local Time: 11:02 AM Posts: 1,533 Offline	Apparently the 'old' MINI used to cost as much as a 3-series to manufacture. Seeing at the car sold at a lower price point something had to be done to keep the bean-counters happy. There was talk at one point of the new model having a plastic roof!