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minigolf · May 15th, 2008, 02:04 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Guran (original)

In Australia, DSC is standard on the Clubman but presently it's still optional on the Cooper. An appalling decision by MINi Australia, IMHO. DSC is widely recognised as life saving technology that should be standard on all BMW/MINI models.

Hear, hear.

Volkswagen has recently introduced ESP across the Golf range and even Hyundai is running a promotion, albeit limited until 30 June IIRC, that has all their cars included with free ESP.

The DSC on my 2004 Cooper S is great, although, as we all know the traction control component is generally too intrusive and quite cumbersome. My experience in a MINI Clubman Cooper S showed that MINI has vastly improved the traction control on their latest DSC set up. In all aspects the new DSC was a marked improvement over the previous iteration.

To be brutally frank, anyone who doesn't cough up the sub $800 asking price for DSC when speccing a new MINI is kidding themselves. Hopefully it won't be long until MINI saves everyone the bother.

May 15th, 2008, 02:04 PM	#3
minigolf Blue is the colour! Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Canberra, Australia Local Time: 01:35 AM Posts: 14,056 Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by Guran (original) In Australia, DSC is standard on the Clubman but presently it's still optional on the Cooper. An appalling decision by MINi Australia, IMHO. DSC is widely recognised as life saving technology that should be standard on all BMW/MINI models. Hear, hear. Volkswagen has recently introduced ESP across the Golf range and even Hyundai is running a promotion, albeit limited until 30 June IIRC, that has all their cars included with free ESP. The DSC on my 2004 Cooper S is great, although, as we all know the traction control component is generally too intrusive and quite cumbersome. My experience in a MINI Clubman Cooper S showed that MINI has vastly improved the traction control on their latest DSC set up. In all aspects the new DSC was a marked improvement over the previous iteration. To be brutally frank, anyone who doesn't cough up the sub $800 asking price for DSC when speccing a new MINI is kidding themselves. Hopefully it won't be long until MINI saves everyone the bother. Sabine Schmitz: Fear disturbs your concentration.