I'm fine with most of the changes, just one observation: I hate fake hood scoops. Not just on MINIs, I hate them on any car. Don't have a scoop if it doesn't do anything. A friend of mine got a Subaru Impreza Outback a few years ago like this, he got some "performance styling" option pack that included a big WRX-style scoop and a couple of hood inlet/vents, but the option pack was aesthetics only, none of the mechanicals underneath, so the scoop just had a big faux-mesh plastic blanking plate and likewise the hood inlet/vents were just plastic faux-mesh, like so:
Just like the one shown on the MINI above. So when I got my first
MCS, I smugly showed him that my hood scoop actually does something. So I can't say I care for that. Heck, a lot of turbo chargers have intercoolers, couldn't they have left the IC on and kept the scoop functional? No sir, I don't like that. Don't mind the rest, though...
-Ricardo
