Hi everybody,
first time I post something - but the closer the date of delievery of my indiblue/white Chili MINI gets, the more I find myself browsing through this brillant site and forum in the evenings. So while my baby is waiting in cold and wet Brugge/Belgium for its train to Munich this is probably the best way to prepare myself mentally for its arrival. (Please excuse my non-perfect English - but -You guessed it- I'm writing from Germany).
I am really fascinated about the resonance of this site - was or is there anything similar happening with other cars? I can't remember.
My first car was a Mini, one of these boxy shaped Innocenti de Tomaso (probably not many will know this car) - in fact a 70 HP Cooper S with italian style bodywork (Bertone). I bought it for 250 DM,-, it was rusty at every corner you can think of (even the roof had a whole
)but after some work it looked quite well and performed even better.
After a great summer on the twisty roads of the black forrest, the vosges (?) and the alpes I had two engine brake downs: first a broken crankshaft (!!!) in the middle of switzerland and on my last trip before the winterbreak (remember the rust) not enough oil (permanently no money these days) in the sump combined with full throttle in a long right handside curve. Result: No oil pressure and damaged crankshaft bearings - over and out.
This is now almost 13 years ago. With these memories of a brilliant car in mind I got really excited about the plan of BMW to create a mini successor and just hoped that they'll keep the spirit of the MINI.
Now I found work at BMW Motorcycle and have had the possibility to drive a Mini One for one night - and I was deeply impressed. It is just the fun machine it used to be before, only on a higher level. The way it gives you the feeling that you have everything under control, that just exactly feel the way the tires are performing on the the road surface was more then I expected. A bit disappointing to me was the engine of the One without torque in the low range and without power at high revs. I also don't understand, why the gear ratio of the One is longer (3,42) then in the Cooper (3,94). Think it reved only 5000 1/min at 180 km/h - does anybody know the reason?
After a good friend got her Mini Cooper, she took me for a short ride (unfortunately she did not allow me to show her just a tiny bit of the potential this roadholding is offering ) I decided to order my Indieblue Cooper with white roof ! And hopefully it arrives in about two weeks.
greetings from bloody cold munich
jomini
first time I post something - but the closer the date of delievery of my indiblue/white Chili MINI gets, the more I find myself browsing through this brillant site and forum in the evenings. So while my baby is waiting in cold and wet Brugge/Belgium for its train to Munich this is probably the best way to prepare myself mentally for its arrival. (Please excuse my non-perfect English - but -You guessed it- I'm writing from Germany).
I am really fascinated about the resonance of this site - was or is there anything similar happening with other cars? I can't remember.
My first car was a Mini, one of these boxy shaped Innocenti de Tomaso (probably not many will know this car) - in fact a 70 HP Cooper S with italian style bodywork (Bertone). I bought it for 250 DM,-, it was rusty at every corner you can think of (even the roof had a whole
)but after some work it looked quite well and performed even better.After a great summer on the twisty roads of the black forrest, the vosges (?) and the alpes I had two engine brake downs: first a broken crankshaft (!!!) in the middle of switzerland and on my last trip before the winterbreak (remember the rust) not enough oil (permanently no money these days) in the sump combined with full throttle in a long right handside curve. Result: No oil pressure and damaged crankshaft bearings - over and out.
This is now almost 13 years ago. With these memories of a brilliant car in mind I got really excited about the plan of BMW to create a mini successor and just hoped that they'll keep the spirit of the MINI.
Now I found work at BMW Motorcycle and have had the possibility to drive a Mini One for one night - and I was deeply impressed. It is just the fun machine it used to be before, only on a higher level. The way it gives you the feeling that you have everything under control, that just exactly feel the way the tires are performing on the the road surface was more then I expected. A bit disappointing to me was the engine of the One without torque in the low range and without power at high revs. I also don't understand, why the gear ratio of the One is longer (3,42) then in the Cooper (3,94). Think it reved only 5000 1/min at 180 km/h - does anybody know the reason?
After a good friend got her Mini Cooper, she took me for a short ride (unfortunately she did not allow me to show her just a tiny bit of the potential this roadholding is offering
) I decided to order my Indieblue Cooper with white roof ! And hopefully it arrives in about two weeks. greetings from bloody cold munich
jomini
