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| Author: | brett [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | MINI WINS DAKAR ON FIRST ATTEMPT!!!! |
Not bad effort!!! And the best colour Combo!!!! http://tvdellosport.info/video/motorspo ... team-recap |
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| Author: | brett [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:11 am ] |
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| Author: | Monte [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:36 am ] |
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Thats is as much as a mini as a Sigma |
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| Author: | poeee [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:45 am ] |
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Monte wrote: Thats is as much as a mini as a Sigma
A Sigma is closer :p |
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| Author: | GT mowog [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:30 am ] |
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That is a great effort, however, I seem to recall that they tried last year and the car was burnt to the ground during the event. |
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| Author: | miniDave [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:35 am ] |
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In one of the TV segments it was cpmpared to a regular Countryman. Only thing the same was front headlights, windscreen and rear tail lights. Reporter commented why it has a 3000cc litre twin turbo diesel engine compared to a 1600 cc four. |
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| Author: | The Duckmeister [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:35 pm ] |
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miniDave wrote: In one of the TV segments it was cpmpared to a regular Countryman. Only thing the same was front headlights, windscreen and rear tail lights. Yep, so it's got about the same road car content as any other supposedly "production-based" race car.
Reporter commented why it has a 3000cc litre twin turbo diesel engine compared to a 1600 cc four. |
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| Author: | Babes [ Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:19 am ] |
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Never gonna please the haters |
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| Author: | watto [ Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:10 pm ] |
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It is about as close to a road-going MINI Countryman as a V8 Supercar is to a Falcondore - actually, maybe less because of the engine difference. So, you could say that a vehicle that vaguely looks a bit like a vehicle that vaguely looks a bit like a car that looks like a modern interpretation of a Mini, won an event that vaguely resembles the original Paris-Dakar rallies. Sure, it was a great effort, and it is still one of the toughest, if not the toughest, rallies in the world, but it aint no MINI. BTW - I'm not a MINI hater, but I do greatly dislike the Countryman. |
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| Author: | Babes [ Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:21 pm ] |
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Im not overly fond of them myself but it has a MINI badge on the front thats all that matter to me. Dont care how close it is to a road legal car, its good for the marque as a whole. |
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| Author: | d1ck0 [ Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:29 pm ] |
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and the Pajero's were always road going versions too I hear 
As said, It's the Marque that wins out.... WRC here we come. 
Dicko. |
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| Author: | The Duckmeister [ Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:40 pm ] |
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watto wrote: It is about as close to a road-going MINI Countryman as a V8 Supercar is to a Falcondore - actually, maybe less because of the engine difference.
Even then I don't think the V8 Supercars' engines are particularly closely related to the road ones - about the only thing in common is the cylinder configuration. And I wonder how they can still call it the Dakar when it's not even on the same continent any more. 
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