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Old Sep 16th, 2002, 11:10 PM
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Future variant (?) pictured in Autospies

Have you all seen this?

http://www.imakenews.com/autospies/e...204027,6910287

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Old Sep 16th, 2002, 11:39 PM
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seen it.

Thought it was a nixed pototype for what we drive now.

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Old Sep 16th, 2002, 11:44 PM
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Hahah I seen that too... I forgot exactlly what it was but its not the next MINI for sure... I think it was a 1997 prototype for the MINI.
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Old Sep 17th, 2002, 02:27 AM
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The car is an AVC30

The AVC30 (pictured in the article) was designed back in 1995 and was sidelined way before 97. It was built as a one off for the 1997 Monte Carlo rally. It was designed at the same time as Spiritual and Spiritual Too (other MINI designs) AVC30 was one of 5 designs from Germany presented for the E50 project (MINI). The two Spiritual cars where designed at Longbridge by the Rover group also for the E50 project.

Our car is a mostly basied on one of the German designs with some of the Spiritual features added in.

BTW: No MINI2 member should be without this Book: New MINI by Graham Robson It has 4 pages on the AVC30 and many pictures.

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Old Sep 17th, 2002, 07:12 AM
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Reference...

http://www.mini2.com/forum/showthrea...ighlight=acv30

http://www.mini2.com/forum/showthrea...ighlight=acv30

http://www.mini2.com/forum/showthrea...ighlight=acv30

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Re: The car is an AVC30

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The AVC30 (pictured in the article) was designed back in 1995 and was sidelined way before 97. It was built as a one off for the 1997 Monte Carlo rally. It was designed at the same time as Spiritual and Spiritual Too (other MINI designs) AVC30 was one of 5 designs from Germany presented for the E50 project (MINI). The two Spiritual cars where designed at Longbridge by the Rover group also for the E50 project.

Our car is a mostly basied on one of the German designs with some of the Spiritual features added in.

BTW: No MINI2 member should be without this Book: New MINI by Graham Robson It has 4 pages on the AVC30 and many pictures.

The book by Graham is a good read, and is valuable for its detail in the history of classic Mini and the current MINI, but it is certainly lacking in detail about the S. I think it cracks a mention on the second last page.

I hope that a second edition will include more info in this regard.
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