A first intended travel to boost relations between the France and the MexicoThe use of the Internet is of course freeTheir overall strategy based on two questionsThe CDU fell to 3233 of the vote the lowest since 2006Group Flo should return to profit in 2009 All art is to allow more freedom in the leader with precisionOf course all the bankers have not faultedLack of qualificationSo far the road is still long Its domain is going to fail but it does not reactHence the regular polemics on the subjectThe Mini third, offer the same silhouette that almost fifty years. But we we not this néo-rétro design plaindrons. The windshield, vertical as it is more since the sixties, and the roof, so flat that it désespérerait a contemporary designer, are passed to the rank of icons. Whole charters of Supt. from all corners of the planet were chartered to attend the birth of the Mini III! The never-seen, even in Porsche and Ferrari.
It must be said that since the import two years of the chip of the cities in New York and Hong Kong, Americans and Asians rushed tens of thousands on this spacecraft built for the narrow streets of Rome! A glory even had not dared dream BMW, society for the adoption of the small English at the end of the last century and that propelled the Mini II (born in 2000) to the best 800,000 bar.
A break in 2007
Question if this global worship will decide the current owners of the star to offer the third generation is At first glance, between two cars, it is white and white bonnet bonnet; some "experts" is even further confusion. But BMW believes hard as iron and table more than 240.000 sales of Mini III as early as 2007, i.e. almost double copies of Mini II passed in 2006.
The secret Maintain the desire otherwise the snobbish by improving of "minutiae"... Let's start with the best. The engine. New, beautiful and Doodle! co-signed by Peugeot, the 4-cylinder 1.6 l 175 ch that animates the iconic Cooper S is "civilized". Always capable of acceleration to thrill a Golf GTI (from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.1 sec.), he finally reveals to a softness, now supporting the nonchalant ride. All for a consumer that does not exceed 7 l / 100 km and CO2 releases (164 g/km). A revolution for those who roll with the former... Icing on the cake: the sporting sound finally grants the right to a conversation between friends, even pace. And everyone knows that the car is capable of through. A real ball tennis placed with millimetre on the pavement and that it stops at the lower pressure on the brakes. Guaranteed thrills who pays, of course, by "manly" depreciation, but, there again, the copy has been reviewed.
In short, the new Mini, it is the same and better. Including more subjective points. Concretely: finished unworthy plastics of a car to 23.400 euros. Now, the chromes are clinquent, they shine, and the Deco always also deliciously "british" with its choice of trim, leather and lacquers is perfect. The cockpit gives even to a few fantasies "techno" as the key to contact round and devoid of roughness or even this light soft colour varies from blue to purple through the orange with the cravings. More convenient: the handle to allow access to the rear seats fold the front seats is now positioned on the top of the folders.
For the rest, the great central counter mythical is even greater, commands the RAF Spitfire style buttons are still more numerous and trunk remains always also riquiqui. But the Mini has never claimed to be the role of a "family" even if a break is expected in 2007! Last point: 6 centimetres in length, history to get 5-star crash test Euro NCAP, the highest possible mark. At the bottom, only real defects of this car will... be those of his driver! As, for example, this mania that some of them have to park in double file...
