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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 4:57 pm 
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then they better change alotta car names to suit you then
a falcon looks nothing like a bird haha :)

Facts are the plans to revamp the mini were well underway under rover ownership.. have you see the quality of car rover puts out?

Their latest effort in the micro car department is the Rover Citycar, sourced from India and rebadged.. top gear on BBC in a this weeks episode had to send a reporter with hidden cameras and staged actors along the course to test its braking etc because Rover refused to let them have the car on national TV it is so poor. Top gear's summary of the car "the interior low rent, the ride, poor and you dont get alot for yout money" (and it sells for about 6000 pound) and "that is the worst car i've ever driven on this program"

So I'd say to the resentful people that say the German copany "stole" a piece of british history... be thankful BMW kept the Mini rights, or something alot more aweful would have been spawned upon the world, i think they did a better job than rover ever could have imagined doing


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Can any one tell me who came up with the ACV30?....That was in my opinion an awesome looking car. i would have been happy to call that the new mini....

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Can any one tell me who came up with the ACV30?....That was in my opinion an awesome looking car. i would have been happy to call that the new mini....


ok i've given up..
over time i'd forgotten what it looked like.. did a quick google...

obviously our "tastes" run along very different lines...
all i can say is good god holy jesus mary and joseph that things HIDEOUS


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Ok ok...so the interrior had a little to be desired but as for the body style....i liked

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http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?r50storyf.htm

there are two possibilities of what the mini couldve been replaced with.

it is only now that i have mutual respect for the new mini... it couldve been alot worse.

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thanks for that link.. very interesting read

BMW may not have done the right thing by the rover design team.. but i agree what they came up with would have been alot worse


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