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  1. #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mon the fish View Post
    It mentions the Cooper D but not the SD. Outwith actual car geeks like us, I don't think most people actually care what engine is in their car as long as it gets decent empeegees.

    It used to be the case in the 90s for example that people would desire a normal car with a decent engine - e.g. Cavalier, Mondeo and 406 V6s, but that looked broadly the same from the outside as the lower-powered models.

    Now folk want the opposite - 318d M Sports that try to look like an M3 but perform nothing like one. It seems to me that the general non-car geek public want all show and no go, and are willing to put up with nasty 4-cylinder diesels in an 'executive' car because engines and smoothness don't actually matter to them
    Do you not think this is because of insurance prices ?
    Anything with any sort of power is I pain to get a decent insurance quote, especially for younger drivers

  2. #12
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    Clever marketing by the car brands, make the car more desirable to the buyer, you can have the looks and toys without power, ideal for the younger driver, Vauxhall have been doing it for years with the corsa


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  3. #13
    Mark Johnston
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kettlepot View Post
    Do you not think this is because of insurance prices ?
    Anything with any sort of power is I pain to get a decent insurance quote, especially for younger drivers
    It depends a lot on what the car is though. All of my friends have sporty/fastish cars 200+bhp. And none of us have insurance that is astronomical. My friend is 22 with a Tts 300bhp he is cheaper to insure that than I would be to insure our Renault zoe 90bhp.

    My last mini 58 plate cooper S 174bhp. Was actually more expensive to insure than if I had my dad's cayman 295bhp. So power isn't the be all and end all.

    I'd really like to own a clubman S but the insurance is more than double what my hatch is so no chance of that happening anytime soon.

    I don't think there is any logic to how insurance is calculated.

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  4. #14
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    So MINI have updated their website and as much as I think MINI could have thought of better names I think it will make ordering a little more straightforward.

    I was worried that the changes made cars unspeccable but after a lot of messing around I eventually found the configurator and not a lot has really changed.

  5. #15
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    Just a relaunch of the range available maybe !


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    One half of Gobi and Sahara EcosseGP's Avatar
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    I d my know why they feel the need to change what they already had and seemed to make sense adding any pack that you wanted to the particular model.
    It is weird that there’s no mention of diesel models especially given the SD was a popular model


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  7. #17
    Mark Johnston
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    Quote Originally Posted by EcosseGP View Post
    I d my know why they feel the need to change what they already had and seemed to make sense adding any pack that you wanted to the particular model.
    It is weird that there’s no mention of diesel models especially given the SD was a popular model


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    That was me misreading Davy they do mention the cooper d but with 150bhp which seems odd would expect the cooper d to have less power than the cooper

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  8. #18
    Quote Originally Posted by M600-RKJ View Post
    It depends a lot on what the car is though. All of my friends have sporty/fastish cars 200+bhp. And none of us have insurance that is astronomical. My friend is 22 with a Tts 300bhp he is cheaper to insure that than I would be to insure our Renault zoe 90bhp.

    My last mini 58 plate cooper S 174bhp. Was actually more expensive to insure than if I had my dad's cayman 295bhp. So power isn't the be all and end all.

    I'd really like to own a clubman S but the insurance is more than double what my hatch is so no chance of that happening anytime soon.

    I don't think there is any logic to how insurance is calculated.

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