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Basil · Jun 24th, 2002, 11:37 PM

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Originally posted by toomanycarz
and JCW will be the tuner for MINIs. You simply will not see an M or a Roundel on a MINI period. Love to be proven wrong, but it's not going to happen.

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Hmmm....so it's ok to have BMW pressings and stamps inside the car, but not on the outside ?.

The cars a MINI granted, but there is simply no denying the product is "Made by BMW", regardless of how hard MINI marketer's have tried to distance it. Nothing to stop BMW from changing tack and having a MINI with a little M-Power badge on it. Can anyone explain why a Car "made by BMW" that is called a MINI with a JCW badge and tuned by JCW is any more acceptable than a MINI with an M badge and tuned by M-Power!!? . They are just badges and tuning companies. The relationship would as I see it, be little different. So maybe it can happily sit in the MINI garage after all. Alpina models surely will adopt the same physcology.

Any takers ?

Jun 24th, 2002, 11:37 PM	#16
Basil MINI2 Master Join Date: Nov 2001 Local Time: 08:25 PM Posts: 5,956 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by toomanycarz and JCW will be the tuner for MINIs. You simply will not see an M or a Roundel on a MINI period. Love to be proven wrong, but it's not going to happen. 2 Hmmm....so it's ok to have BMW pressings and stamps inside the car, but not on the outside ?. The cars a MINI granted, but there is simply no denying the product is "Made by BMW", regardless of how hard MINI marketer's have tried to distance it. Nothing to stop BMW from changing tack and having a MINI with a little M-Power badge on it. Can anyone explain why a Car "made by BMW" that is called a MINI with a JCW badge and tuned by JCW is any more acceptable than a MINI with an M badge and tuned by M-Power!!? . They are just badges and tuning companies. The relationship would as I see it, be little different. So maybe it can happily sit in the MINI garage after all. Alpina models surely will adopt the same physcology. Any takers ?