I went all and ordered up a JCW shift knob.
First time ordering from ECSTuning, so we'll see what happens.
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https://jalopnik.com/the-2019-mini-coop ... 1821930283
Updates to the Mini Cooper announced! New tails, new infotainment, new dashboard accent panel, and that's about it. No DCT, no meaningful power increase.
New tails look alright.
Updates to the Mini Cooper announced! New tails, new infotainment, new dashboard accent panel, and that's about it. No DCT, no meaningful power increase.
New tails look alright.
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I like the tails.
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Thats awesome. Save the truck and car miles and money! Good luck with the new job if you take it!![user not found] wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:59 amMy new commute is gonna wreck engines.
2.5 miles.
Might be able to start riding to work.
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Articles I've read have said no DCT for the USA.[user not found] wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:23 pm The backlit Union Jack dash is an option; not standard. One of the MINI: Yours options.
Tails seem to be standard but I’m hoping they’re not. I like them but wouldn’t want them on my own car.
Also, DCT comes later this year. Slow rollout.
Anyways, I may be bailing on BMW and trying to slide back into MINI. I feel like a nail being pounded by a thousand hammers.
http://www.motoringfile.com/2018/01/10/ ... t-getting/
No adaptive matrix lighting
No updated engines
No 7-speed steptronic dual clutch
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To be fair I think it looks alright but then again I never really had an issue with the F56 styling in general. I think Mini/BMW needed to uncork the engines a bit, make the MT better, make the car more exciting to drive through sound or who knows what. They also didn't do a damn thing to the interior, like why does it still have a cable parking brake? It should have an electronic parking brake so they can redesign the center console cluster fuck arm rest and infotainment controller situation.
I dunno. I guess I was hoping for a bit more. Maybe they'll up the lease support on these.
I dunno. I guess I was hoping for a bit more. Maybe they'll up the lease support on these.
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How else do you dorifto in a FWD car in the snow?Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:02 am To be fair I think it looks alright but then again I never really had an issue with the F56 styling in general. I think Mini/BMW needed to uncork the engines a bit, make the MT better, make the car more exciting to drive through sound or who knows what. They also didn't do a damn thing to the interior, like why does it still have a cable parking brake? It should have an electronic parking brake so they can redesign the center console cluster fuck arm rest and infotainment controller situation.
I dunno. I guess I was hoping for a bit more. Maybe they'll up the lease support on these.
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Mt. Laurel or Edison?[user not found] wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:23 pm The backlit Union Jack dash is an option; not standard. One of the MINI: Yours options.
Tails seem to be standard but I’m hoping they’re not. I like them but wouldn’t want them on my own car.
Also, DCT comes later this year. Slow rollout.
Anyways, I may be bailing on BMW and trying to slide back into MINI. I feel like a nail being pounded by a thousand hammers.
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New jerb? Going back to Mini?[user not found] wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:59 am My new commute is gonna wreck engines.
2.5 miles.
Might be able to start riding to work.
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Nobody will do that. Especially not the sorority girls who buy these cars.Apex wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:10 amHow else do you dorifto in a FWD car in the snow?Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:02 am To be fair I think it looks alright but then again I never really had an issue with the F56 styling in general. I think Mini/BMW needed to uncork the engines a bit, make the MT better, make the car more exciting to drive through sound or who knows what. They also didn't do a damn thing to the interior, like why does it still have a cable parking brake? It should have an electronic parking brake so they can redesign the center console cluster fuck arm rest and infotainment controller situation.
I dunno. I guess I was hoping for a bit more. Maybe they'll up the lease support on these.
Fact is, an electronic parking brake will allow them to redesign the center console area. The media controller is awkwardly kind of underneath the armrest. The arm rest is in the way of the parking brake, and using the parking brake actually hits the armrest and tilts it upwards. Very poor design. My Ford Focus was the exact same way, and I ended up unbolting that piece of shit armrest and drove around with a poverty hole in my center console because Ford couldn't follow conventional design that works in every other small car on the market.
When I was looking at Minis I was trying to find ones without center armrests which is but necessary IMO.
I was really hoping for an injection of engine fun in these. The power tapers off after about 4500 RPM, and the sound starts to wane off and lighten up very artificially. My car is just getting into the meat of the fun at 4500 RPM and putting an ever growing smile of stupidity on your face. That's what this car should do. That's what it DID do until they became tiny BMWs.
I did really like the F56S. I just felt it was quirky and not actually very sporty. The brand is writing checks the cars can't cash.
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Have you had anyone bless a new car at the dealership? With like flowers and a prayer and stuff? It's customary in India, but IDK if you have any FOBs coming in to haggle or not.
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TIL: I'm a sorority girl.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:30 amNobody will do that. Especially not the sorority girls who buy these cars.
Fact is, an electronic parking brake will allow them to redesign the center console area. The media controller is awkwardly kind of underneath the armrest. The arm rest is in the way of the parking brake, and using the parking brake actually hits the armrest and tilts it upwards. Very poor design. My Ford Focus was the exact same way, and I ended up unbolting that piece of shit armrest and drove around with a poverty hole in my center console because Ford couldn't follow conventional design that works in every other small car on the market.
When I was looking at Minis I was trying to find ones without center armrests which is but necessary IMO.
I was really hoping for an injection of engine fun in these. The power tapers off after about 4500 RPM, and the sound starts to wane off and lighten up very artificially. My car is just getting into the meat of the fun at 4500 RPM and putting an ever growing smile of stupidity on your face. That's what this car should do. That's what it DID do until they became tiny BMWs.
I did really like the F56S. I just felt it was quirky and not actually very sporty. The brand is writing checks the cars can't cash.
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haApex wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:47 amTIL: I'm a sorority girl.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:30 am
Nobody will do that. Especially not the sorority girls who buy these cars.
Fact is, an electronic parking brake will allow them to redesign the center console area. The media controller is awkwardly kind of underneath the armrest. The arm rest is in the way of the parking brake, and using the parking brake actually hits the armrest and tilts it upwards. Very poor design. My Ford Focus was the exact same way, and I ended up unbolting that piece of shit armrest and drove around with a poverty hole in my center console because Ford couldn't follow conventional design that works in every other small car on the market.
When I was looking at Minis I was trying to find ones without center armrests which is but necessary IMO.
I was really hoping for an injection of engine fun in these. The power tapers off after about 4500 RPM, and the sound starts to wane off and lighten up very artificially. My car is just getting into the meat of the fun at 4500 RPM and putting an ever growing smile of stupidity on your face. That's what this car should do. That's what it DID do until they became tiny BMWs.
I did really like the F56S. I just felt it was quirky and not actually very sporty. The brand is writing checks the cars can't cash.
Enthusiasts are few and far between in reality. We make quite the battle cry but hardly show up at the dealer to vote with our wallets. Fact is it would serve Mini well to make a change that suits the masses better, because they're the ones typically buying the cars. Most new cars are going to electric parking brakes, even the new Si has one.
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And I'm still really torn by this car. Nice premium little vehicle. Drives pretty good. Pretty good automatic. Would be great for a city. Just supposed to be racy and it kind of isn't. It's like the GTI but with more quirks. I think fixing the engine sound would swing me to like it more.
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Enthusiasts shout a lot about things they want, but you are right that the masses buy far more cars than we do. Plus, a lot of enthusiasts want the cheap too so they aren't buying new stuff.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:52 amha
Enthusiasts are few and far between in reality. We make quite the battle cry but hardly show up at the dealer to vote with our wallets. Fact is it would serve Mini well to make a change that suits the masses better, because they're the ones typically buying the cars. Most new cars are going to electric parking brakes, even the new Si has one.
IDK how it doesn't work in the Fseries, but my R56 has an armrest, media control, and parking brake that function well for me.
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And let it breathe better up top.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:57 am And I'm still really torn by this car. Nice premium little vehicle. Drives pretty good. Pretty good automatic. Would be great for a city. Just supposed to be racy and it kind of isn't. It's like the GTI but with more quirks. I think fixing the engine sound would swing me to like it more.
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I just can't see why people would go for these if they weren't even *slightly* interested in having something fun to drive. I mean my wife, for example, is so, so far from being a car person, but she bought a 2005 Mazda 3 after college because it was more fun to drive than anything else she test drove, with absolutely no input from me. Later on we got her a 2013 Jetta and while she liked a lot about it, after awhile she really started to hate how it drove because the trans would race to the highest gear and it didn't handle nearly as well.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:57 am And I'm still really torn by this car. Nice premium little vehicle. Drives pretty good. Pretty good automatic. Would be great for a city. Just supposed to be racy and it kind of isn't. It's like the GTI but with more quirks. I think fixing the engine sound would swing me to like it more.
These cars don't need to be enthusiast cars, necessarily, but I do think they need to offer some semblance of sport that you wouldn't find in a Corolla. If they don't, they are just a fashion accessory, and the appeal of that will fade quickly.
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For a while people bought them because they were trendycoogles wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:12 amI just can't see why people would go for these if they weren't even *slightly* interested in having something fun to drive. I mean my wife, for example, is so, so far from being a car person, but she bought a 2005 Mazda 3 after college because it was more fun to drive than anything else she test drove, with absolutely no input from me. Later on we got her a 2013 Jetta and while she liked a lot about it, after awhile she really started to hate how it drove because the trans would race to the highest gear and it didn't handle nearly as well.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:57 am And I'm still really torn by this car. Nice premium little vehicle. Drives pretty good. Pretty good automatic. Would be great for a city. Just supposed to be racy and it kind of isn't. It's like the GTI but with more quirks. I think fixing the engine sound would swing me to like it more.
These cars don't need to be enthusiast cars, necessarily, but I do think they need to offer some semblance of sport that you wouldn't find in a Corolla. If they don't, they are just a fashion accessory, and the appeal of that will fade quickly.
I think reliability reports from CR and such have tainted the public's view of these cars
Doesn't help that they're expensive
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Yeah in one way or another it should be exciting to wring out. The MK6 GTI was fun to take to the upper rev range. This, you can feel it's being artificially held back.Apex wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:02 amAnd let it breathe better up top.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:57 am And I'm still really torn by this car. Nice premium little vehicle. Drives pretty good. Pretty good automatic. Would be great for a city. Just supposed to be racy and it kind of isn't. It's like the GTI but with more quirks. I think fixing the engine sound would swing me to like it more.