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    Re. post#52 - OYF, Inflammatory Comment Alert!!!













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    Quote Originally Posted by gauldrymini View Post
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    Ssh, i've gotten away with it so far

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    isn't the clubdoor on the 'wrong' side of the car for GB? I think? Designed for other places, where your wee princess gets to climb out onto a pavement instead of stepping out in front of a car! I still like the clubdoor though, it's got a bit of 'something I can't quite put my finger on' x factor about it for me. A wee quirkiness

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    Quote Originally Posted by MINIme:) View Post
    isn't the clubdoor on the 'wrong' side of the car for GB? I think? Designed for other places, where your wee princess gets to climb out onto a pavement instead of stepping out in front of a car! I still like the clubdoor though, it's got a bit of 'something I can't quite put my finger on' x factor about it for me. A wee quirkiness
    It is. The excuse from BMW was that they couldn't put the door where it should be due to the fuel filler neck. But the general suspicion is that it was to suit foreign markets


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    Quote Originally Posted by MINIme:) View Post
    isn't the clubdoor on the 'wrong' side of the car for GB? I think? Designed for other places, where your wee princess gets to climb out onto a pavement instead of stepping out in front of a car! I still like the clubdoor though, it's got a bit of 'something I can't quite put my finger on' x factor about it for me. A wee quirkiness
    Jo, one of my pals, whenever I mention the Clubbie, delights in telling me in telling me (every single bloody time) that the Clubdoor (sounds as if it should have a bouncer attached) is on the wrong side for the UK (which of course it is, unless you prefer to release your tiny royalty/passengers into traffic - depends on the princess and the passenger I suppose...), thus proving that MINI snubbed the British buyer in favour of lucrative overseas markets. MINI chasing the mighty $$$? Surely not...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mon the fish View Post
    ^^ it's actually very useful for tripping up the unwary on the drivers seatbelt, there's something satisfying about backseat passengers head hitting the seat base
    I caught my foot in the seatbelt in the showroom getting out of a Clubbie not long after it was launched Felt like a right t*t

    I remember commenting that it seemed strange to pass such an obvious 'hazard' as OK for public consumption. So you not only get out into traffic, you're sent sprawling right in front of it. They should have renamed it the 'Suicide Door' with a Special Edition, the "Clubman Dignitas".

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