Autocar likes Ginetta! Good feature in this week's issue
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'bout time! 
Very good 4 page feature on Tomlinson and Ginetta in this week's Autocar by Steve Cropley. Now let's have a road test of the F400.
Good issue as they have a scoop on my other favourite marque MINI (well, it is just up the road from me, and I do have a mental JCW MINI ).
The Autocar exclusive is on the new MINI 4x4 Coupe (bet that has upset Auto Distress no end, who always like to be first with MINI stuff.
Ironically, their cover has a scoop which would be more at home on the front of Autocar! - on the so-called new Lotus 'Mini' - god, it's awful!
Lotus have lost the plot just lately: Chapman must be spinning.
Very good 4 page feature on Tomlinson and Ginetta in this week's Autocar by Steve Cropley. Now let's have a road test of the F400.
Good issue as they have a scoop on my other favourite marque MINI (well, it is just up the road from me, and I do have a mental JCW MINI
).The Autocar exclusive is on the new MINI 4x4 Coupe (bet that has upset Auto Distress no end, who always like to be first with MINI stuff.
Ironically, their cover has a scoop which would be more at home on the front of Autocar! - on the so-called new Lotus 'Mini' - god, it's awful!
Lotus have lost the plot just lately: Chapman must be spinning.
h4887 said:
Obviously you have influence, John!
Geoff
Nah, I don't think so, Geoff. If I have, it takes a ruddy long time!!Geoff
Perhaps it has more to do with Autocar seeing their rival Auto Distress cover story and thinking...
'Our beloved Lotus... oh dear!'
Apologies to Autocar for showing this plug for Auto Distress.
And to Auto Distress, get back to the 'real' MINI!
HOW can that Lotus Mini pictured compete with this?
The management at Loti need their heads examined
Which would you like to be at the traffic lights in? The Lotus Mini or my MINI below
(apologies - again - for sidetracking from Ginetta)
Edited by dandarez on Thursday 2nd September 16:53
MKnight702 said:
dandarez said:
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When you get a Mini and not that BMW 0.5 Series let us know.The key feature of a Mini (not already mentioned) is small size, hence the name. Yours may be a nice car, but you could never call it small, let alone mini.
It's a Bini and he knows it..
MKnight702 said:
dandarez said:
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When you get a Mini and not that BMW 0.5 Series let us know.The key feature of a Mini (not already mentioned) is small size, hence the name. Yours may be a nice car, but you could never call it small, let alone mini.
Get it? Mini and MINI.
I then changed to Imps because even Issigonis thought the Imp was brilliant (did you know that? He was one of the first ever people to get a chance to drive one, when he met up with Fry and Parkes in a pub before its launch. Issigonis only criticism was that the engine was at the wrong end!). It's what got me into Ginettas (G15s).
Anyhow, as for my current MINI being a 'nice' car.
It's not... it's bloody 'mental'.
Come for a ride... I'll frighten the life out of you, like I have others. Usually, their first 2 words are predictable.
F.H!!
It's the standard (from Dec 2008) factory John Coooper Works. NOT to be mistaken for earlier JCWs.
149 mph, 210bhp... there is not much that can live with it when it's twin-scroll turbo is wound up. And all from a 1.6. (that part of the car is a 'mini', the engine size!)
I have been after another Ginetta for a while now, but it means me selling the JCW. It will be a hell of a wrench because this is the most fun fast car I have had in an age. It really is brilliant. And those who have not driven one should not make crass statements. I too was a Beemer hater (suppose it's inbread in us Brits who haven't been behind the wheel of one). But in the MINI case, they are built HERE and the company is not only proving to be a vastly good employer to Brits, but they are on one hell of a roll too (in this current climate!).
Edited by dandarez on Friday 3rd September 15:09
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