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Jul 25, 2005 14:30:18 GMT
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Yes but the Mini Traveller, which that thing's trying to emulate with the side trim, did have real wood, only it wasn't structural like it was on the Minor and Oxford Travellers, that's what I meant.   |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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BOILING PISS!DarrenW
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Jul 25, 2005 14:32:29 GMT
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Yes but the Mini Traveller, which that thing's trying to emulate with the side trim, did have real wood, only it wasn't structural like it was on the Minor and Oxford Travellers, that's what I meant. I guessed you meant that I never liked those - as you say, it isn't structural like on a Moggy, seems rather pointless to me. |
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Jul 25, 2005 14:36:45 GMT
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True, maybe even the original Mini dipped into the fashionable fakes thing there too, but at least they did use wood, and besides that it was a practical conversion, I mean I've seen inside Mini estates, vans and pickups, and there is actually a practical reason why you'd buy one, they actually do have useable extra room and that's why the exist, whearas this new estate is more than likely a fashion statement first and an estate car second, I can't imagine anyone buying a new Mini to be a workhorse.
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Bracey
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Jul 25, 2005 14:38:54 GMT
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Roll on the BMW Mini Clubman!
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Jul 25, 2005 14:52:23 GMT
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I have a confession to make....
One of my best friends is a designer for BMW Mini. He didn't work on the styling for the current one, but he is more than likely to be responsible for any future BMW Minis.
However, the car itself is ok, but the ad campaigns are so inanely stupid that it makes me never want to own a BMini.
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Last Edit: Jul 25, 2005 14:53:26 GMT by Paul H
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BOILING PISS!goaferboy
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Jul 25, 2005 15:01:10 GMT
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yeah i agree. once you get over the fact that its a mini in name only, its actually a good car.
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shellysowner
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Busy shovelling bums and rustling turds!
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Jul 25, 2005 15:19:41 GMT
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When I had my mini... this must've been 2 months or so after the new mini was released, I pulled up at some traffic lights behind a new mini in the same BRG metallic as mine. The new mini in question was full of two very attractive young ladies who smiled, waved and pointed at my car and then at theirs, but I stuck to my anti-new-biggie principles and fixed them with an icy stare... so I'm either to be congratulated for this or I'm an idiot for not smiling back at the pretty ladies!
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Retro luggage for sale - PM me.
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BOILING PISS!goaferboy
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Jul 25, 2005 15:33:40 GMT
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depends. were you single at the time?
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shellysowner
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Busy shovelling bums and rustling turds!
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Jul 25, 2005 15:35:29 GMT
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errrm, can't remember. I think I should be congratulated on my principles anyways... besides which they werent that pretty.... at least I don't think they were...
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Retro luggage for sale - PM me.
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Jul 25, 2005 15:35:39 GMT
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Ha Ha! They were probably on their way 1) on the way home from their job as a regional 'team leader' in a call centre, 2) to the local 'David Lloyd' gymnasium or 3) just coming back from lunch at some swanky city-centre trendy bar where a poached egg on a postage-stamp sized bit of toasted bread served with 'rocket' costs £19.95. Good work!
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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BOILING PISS!goaferboy
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Jul 25, 2005 15:38:45 GMT
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yeah i guess you should always stick to your principles. women come and go, principles stay
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Jul 25, 2005 15:44:44 GMT
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"Car got rolld over with me in it. Got pickaxed to death by bystanders. Had corpse dragged around the town centre on fire. It's a mini adventure! [TM]"
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Never trust a man
Who names himself Trevor.
Or one day you might find
He's not a real drug dealer.
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I wonder if the fake wood on the new estate will succum to fakewoodworm?
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Bracey
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The ONE thing that pisses me off about the whole BMW Mini thing is that a number of companies and websites have carried out their day-to-day business with the name 'MINI' somewhere in their title - e.g. MINI BITS or SUCH-AND-SUCH MINI CLUB (both ficticious) for years and years. However, now BMW own the name MINI (spelt with all capitals) and these companies are breaking some kind of copyright/trademark laws if they use the word MINI (in capitals) without BMW's permission. And I've been led to believe that BMW have enforced this law on a number of small companies who trade using the word 'MINI' in their logo's/names etc, forcing them to change their name.  As I say, I'm no expert on this area of law or this particular case, but it sounds like BMW have been very petty! That's enough to boil my pee! |
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BOILING PISS!BenzBoy
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Jul 27, 2005 10:05:48 GMT
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Surely all they'd have to do is change their name to lower-case? There's an estate agents in Nottingham that use a fleet of liveried "MINI"s, every time I see them they're 2 inches off the guy in front's bumper, driven by some tw@t in a shiny, ill-fitting suit with lairy tie and an oversized "footballers knot"  . Says it all really. |
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Jul 27, 2005 11:26:49 GMT
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Ha ha! Those big tie knots are a fugging trademark. I don’t know what training you have to do (if any!) to become an estate agent or recruitment ‘consultant’, but whatever it is, tying ties like a complete tw4t is clearly part of the syllabus.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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Jul 27, 2005 12:33:09 GMT
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is it "sweet" estate agents in nottingham? we've got one in kirkby, complete with stickered-up mini (sorry, MINI) driven by a pre-pubescent teenager in a white shirt with coloured collar and a tie knot bigger than his head.
i think the min.. erm MINI is quite a nice car actually, certainly nicely styled. however i dispise the cliqueyness of it all, the owners clubs (for a freaking new car! what have you to talk about??), the MINI accessories.... thankfuly VW didn't really bother with all that for the new beetle meaning we can quietly pretend it doesn't exist but the MINI gets rammed into your face every time you open a paper, turn on the TV or go down the local rent-boy hideout.
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Never trust a man
Who names himself Trevor.
Or one day you might find
He's not a real drug dealer.
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A lot of Morris Minor specialists had the same problems with BMW over copyrights etc.
If they ain't gonna make Morris Minors, why are they creating such a fuss? Or are they going to try to exploit that market next?
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Or are they going to try to exploit that market next?
I suspect that BMW are going to copyright the 'Traveller' name for their 'woody' MINI's©
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. Says it all really.