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# Proper mini!
none of this BMW shite!
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:38, archived)
# Made in Oxford from locally stolen parts
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:39, archived)
# Nice to see them keep it in the community
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:41, archived)
# knowing where the factory is, what I said could be 100% true
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:43, archived)
# Reduce. Reuse. Recycle
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:44, archived)
# Steal, Set fire to, Riot
Is more like it
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:46, archived)
# Anarchy!
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:47, archived)
# You speak the truth
bmw mini are awful, same as that remake of the beetle too! and that fiat 500
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:40, archived)
# The remakes make me angry
The point of the Beetle, 500 and Mini were that they were small, utilitarian, cars. Not mahoosive gas guzzlers!
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:45, archived)
# The new mini is good because it looses very little value over time.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:47, archived)
# yeah but its full of crap thats gonna go wrong
electrical this, electircal that, in 20 years - unlike the proper mini, you're not gonna be able to get spares for it guaranteed!
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:50, archived)
# Thing is
you'll still pay a fortune for an original mini in good nick
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:53, archived)
# Still i wouldn't buy one
not for all the bananas in the world
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:55, archived)
# My sister came visiting recently
in a company car which was a new Fiat 500 Abarth.
www.fiat.co.uk/500abarth/ ( she works for Ducati Corse, owned by Fiat )
I tell you what, it might be a Noddy car but by christ was it fun to drive.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:48, archived)
# Not as much fun as driving the original
There's some serious skill in doing that. Most of which is fitting in the car in the fist place
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:51, archived)
# The trouble with nostalgia is
that it's not as good as it used to be. I've driven a 500 original and when I was 17 my girlfriend had a 1275GT mini and looking back now, with the benefit of old age they really were shit cars.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:54, archived)
# I'd still bite your hand off
for a Morris Traveller.

If it's good enough for Clint Eastwood, it's good enough for me
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:58, archived)
# sell ya a triumph herald?
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 21:05, archived)
# I'm going to ignore that
as the beardedwife would bite your hand off for that.

But he's been nawty so he's not allowed to buy his dream car
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 21:08, archived)
# aww goawn
its taxed but MOT expired, in lovely sunny south west wales... come on you need a holiday/restoration project?
I have a vitesse convertible too? (recon chassis)
my new toy (1954 84" Series 1 Land Rover) needs more room to breathe :D
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 21:27, archived)
# I would be amused by seeing a pair of seriously obese people getting into a fiat 500
and driving it around in circles

this would make me happy
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:54, archived)
# fiats ARE fun to drive!
though part of the fun is identifying what each component is on the trail of parts they leave on the roadside behind you

and yet I'd still have another one

/misses his fiat blog
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:52, archived)
# I miss my Fiat Panda
sold it to a mate of mine who knew I loved that car and then he sold it on without telling me. I'd have bought it back off him!
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:56, archived)
# We bought a new Grande Punto
in December. I can tell you that it's a lot of car for not a lot of money. Very well made. They ain't what they used to be. ( had a 131 mirafiori in my youth. Christ that spent more time in the garage than the mechanic ).
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:56, archived)
# had an old style fiat croma
it was a bit of an abortion but if I drove a ford escort the way I drove that thing I would have been a stain on the road :D

and on motorways you could almost sit back and go to sleep, it was so smooth no matter how fast you went unlike the juddering shitfest that some of the things I've had were like
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 21:04, archived)
# my top speed is 55mph
yeah!
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 21:29, archived)