Light Weight Cooper S

[bpirie1000]

so will this Put an 'M' in Mini........

Famous For the 'M' Range will BMW actually Play with the Mini... Motorsport Mini.....

Answer: DO IT BMW ..... You know you want to...........

[The Dogfather]

quote:Originally posted by bpirie1000

so will this Put an 'M' in Mini........

Famous For the 'M' Range will BMW actually Play with the Mini... Motorsport Mini.....

Answer: DO IT BMW ..... You know you want to...........

Don't do it BMW!

That's what the Works is meant to be, a heavily tuned version of the standard S. This would be the CSL version if only they'd used a bit more imagination!!!!!

[euan]

It does seem a bit of a compromise from BMW, however if they had done too much more to it they would have ended up slapping a HUGE price on it that nobody would have bought.

I think Bonnie is right, it's a last glorious car before the new model comes out and visually it's not what you'd expect from mini. So I say fair play to them. It may not be to everyone's taste, but I bet it drives well (not that I'll ever get the chance to drive one with only 2000 cars!). Sometimes, less is more, even just slight differences can add up to something special.

SC, hope you get it and love it. I'd certainly consider it for the garage if I could.

[jamesp]

Your right - About it making the R32 seem good value, hence why i have ordered the r32 !


The lightweight model does look great fun, but i am sure that with a few options added this model will be pretty expensive to run over a three or four year period.

quote:Originally posted by Topless

Firstly, it seems that this car is the answer to a problem that doesn't exist. A 2-seater stripped out mini with a higher BHP/tonne, but achieved via more power rather than through less weight. Looks wise it seems like someone has covered a mini in glue and driven it though the Ripspeed section of Halfords to see what would stick to it.

I'd also imagine the depreciation will be heavy too. I don't envisage too many second hand buyers wanting a lardy mini with just 2 seats - Renault has dropped their V6 as nobody wants a 2-seater small hatch (despite it being a fantastic car).

It's too heavy/civilised to be a track car (heated seats??) and too compromised to be a run around (lack of rear seats), and likely to be too thirsty with that engine spec to be a motroway car. So, after all the launch cars have been sold to those who've got to have it, where is the 2nd hand market coming from?

Finally, at the price, it makes the new R32 look like great value.

Just my 2p.

D

[euan]

quote:Originally posted by Topless
I'd also imagine the depreciation will be heavy too. I don't envisage too many second hand buyers wanting a lardy mini with just 2 seats - Renault has dropped their V6 as nobody wants a 2-seater small hatch (despite it being a fantastic car).

Just a thought - would Renault not drop the V6 as the new model Clio is now out?

[lightbody]

Its horrendous. I'm horribly disappointed - I was really looking forward to this car and was hoping for a proper stripped out racey MINI that wasn't quite as porkey as they normally are!

I hate everything they've done to the outside with the possible exception of the wheels... and removing the rear wiper is just stupid - you'd need it even if you were racing it!

And they've gone to Bertone in Italy to do it - why? THe car is getting less and less British every day.

Think i'll go and wash my nice subtle, tasteful "Dennis" !

[Monsta Mo Mini]

It's in Auto Express

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/61561/wild_new_mini_gp_is_go_go_go.html

Yuck!

[lightbody]

Its in Sniff Petrol:-

http://www.sniffpetrol.com/index.html

No sooner has BMW released details of the long rumoured 'hardcore' Mini Cooper S Works GP than one enterprising independent tuning firm has announced its own bargain priced equivalent. The Cooper S HIT is the brainchild of popular tuning firm MiniTweak of Watford and the company claims it will be more than a match for the lightened, more powerful factory effort. "Our first job was to extract more power from the engine," says MiniTweak boss Flimsby Conbdthwike. "So, to offer a bhp increase in line with what BMW have achieved what we've done is to retain the existing supercharger but to mount it in series with a small child's windmill, such as one might buy at a garden centre". Although MiniTweak claim that this modification is unique to their tuning package, a quick look at the official Works GP power increase suggests BMW may have done something very similar. However, the GP isn't just about barely more power; it's also about weight reduction, and Conbdthwike is confident that here too his company can match the factory's efforts with their lightening programme. "To achieve the kind of weight loss that BMW has managed with the Works GP takes almost some doing," he confesses. "But I think we've managed it. First of all, we take out the back seat and throw it away. Then we go to the pub. It was a lot of effort, but we think it was worth it.". However, Conbdthwike admits that producing a well-matched rival in terms of power gain and weight loss was relatively easy compared to the massive hurdle of equalling the Works GP in the key area of horribleness. "This is the aspect of the Works GP that really shows the advantage of having the backing of a massive company like BMW, but I think we've come up with a genuinely disgusting rival. By getting my five year old son to design the bodykit I think we've arrived at a design that is at least as cack handed and childish as the GP's and we're especially pleased with the wheels which everyone I've shown the car to has described as '****ing disgusting' and asked 'weren't the 1980s over 15 years ago'!" To complete the package, MiniTweak will offer their GP rival only in a miserable flat grey with some utterly repulsive door mirrors in a colour that doesn't match. "It has been tricky trying to compete with a huge, well funded factory operation when we're essentially a bunch of inept amateurs," admits Conbdthwike. "So actually we're rather flattered that with the Works GP BMW has made a factory approved model that looks like it was built by inept amateurs too!"