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[Purple Tom]

thing about the saxo i guess is thats an 'out of the box' modded car, especially the VTR/VTS, but even the Furio and West Coast were modified styling wise. Mini's are timeless, and even the most hardened of boy racers have a smile (inwards or not) for a mini!!

[Dom]

true, on many of the cruise sites im on im the only mini but they still appreciate it.

[tom]

Even a lightly tuned Mini will *yellow human water* all over a fancy Saxo when it comes to racing.

[lewis]

because they weigh like half, thats the love of the mini

[P91MER]

Can we do a little tally on what cars a mini will beat???

i *yellow human water* on my mates

1.6 zetec orion
1.5 diesel shitroen AX

Would a mini beat a saxo vtr/s?

[pierce]

nothin but a *male chicken*

I've had a 1.6 16v escort and a rover 214 off the lights

[cowboy]

on that last point

Can we do a little tally on what cars a mini will beat???

a mini will beat most cars of the line and round bends, but a straight road, were sadly left standing, but we still our mini's whether they are faster or not then teh blojke next door in what evedr fancy car he mat think he drives :wales:

[Dom]

saxo vtr/s?

no, i raced a 1.6 and lost. I beat him on acceleration at first then he pulled away. But mine is an untuned 1.3 cooper and his was a 1.6 with some minor mods. I kept up a good fight but then he just drove past like i was standing still :sad: :grin: but the drive has been done for speeding and is regulary out racing and that was my first time.

[Dom]

ooo yeah, what i was going to say was that that 106 has been recently seen in the Whistable area.

[Purple Tom]

believe it or not (i couldn't quite), my little 1098 beat a Civic Type R at nottingham circuit off the lights straight into a 90 deg corner and kept up a fight about 100 yards down the straight, then obviously it went past like i was going backwards. The bloke pulled up later next to me and said well done!

[Alex1380]

At my local cruise theres about 10minis more than any other type of car.

[Al*]

get this .......my dad's friend 9and mine) used to have a cooper s in the 70's and this was in Quebec canada.......his car was basically stock.......1275cc and all that was aftermarket were headers, exhaust, and a re-worked head......he used to race american muscle and win!!!! he claims to have beat a hemi off the line and held out front for a split second too!!!!

Al

[P91MER]

raced a seat ibiza yesterday, kicked his ass on acceleration, but the road was dead straight!! so he was right up my arse when i was at about 100, then whipped him when i got to the island!!

[tom]

Yea, even with 13"s, you still can't get such a high top end as say, a Saxo, that comes with 14"s as stock.

[tom]

Oh, and for the record, I was in a stock Cooper last week that left a very expensive Z3 standing, then proceeded to obliterate it.

Needless to say, he wasn't very happy when £XX,000 of BMW got 0wn3d by >£2k of rusty 1980s metal, with 2 people on board. heh heh.