I'd always understood that the bigger bulge on this model was to accomodate forthcoming new pedestrian regs, but Jeremy Clarkson [please leave the thread here for a wider audience who will want to know the correct answer] says, "The only thing I didn't like about the look of the Cooper S I tried was the power bulge on the bonnet which doesn't actually do anything. Though I understand it will in future, suggesting that a more powerful engine is planned." So - have BMW been covering up to stop enthusiasts waiting to buy one with a larger engine, or has the man himself got it wrong?
Too many freaks not enough circuses
Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.
Someone should tell him it's only got four (or is it five, mines been broken so long I cant remember) colour options.
I do think Clarkson forgets the facts in place of a good comment sometimes though (either that or he seriously needs specs or his hand eye coordination working on!):
Where has the ignition barrel on almost every car ever made been, where you have to slot a little key into a little hole? Oh yes, behind the steering wheel.
How far apart are the temp and window switches, and ones a chrome toggle switch, the other a big, fiddly to use, silver dial?!
The first two columns of it didn't even seem to mention the car!
Clarkson is just becoming increasingly rediculous! (as is TopGear IMO)
If my mum (who is not interested in cars) had reviewed it, she might have made similar comments! For car enthusiasts I thought it was a pathetic review
You don't read Clarkson's columns in the Sunday Times often then? He always starts with some funny anecdote and then brings it round to the review of the car. He tends to keep the two things related for the whole review.
Yep - I think the actual reviews of the cars only take up about 1/4 of the total space in his part of the motoring section. The other 3/4 is usually waffle which sometimes ends with "Which brings be round to........"
His reviews are more about entertainment than a useful, factual, review of the car and, as such, it works very well. There are a lot of other places that you can read a very worthy and precise review of the MINI if that's what you want please go and check out lots of other links on this site.....
Mind you, why do we need yet another factual review here? We're all pretty familiar with everything about the new car anyway and have all pretty much made our minds up about what we do and don't like; roll on more frivolous, funny and irreverent reviews instead!
Tigger.
Last edited by Tigger, Eeyore & Roo; Feb 19th, 2007 at 04:14 PM.
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