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James May's Prototype Cooper
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lsto
, May 04 2025 07:01 PM
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Posted 04 May 2025 - 09:38 PM
"James May explains the history of the car and how Rover used it to promote the rebirth of the Cooper. It started life as a standard Mini 30 on the assembly line and was upgraded to Cooper status."
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Posted 04 May 2025 - 10:18 PM
Is there a prize for spotting all the bits he got wrong?
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 08:15 AM
1 free bottle of gin by the sounds of it lol. Its basically a clickbait advert but acceptable because we all love James
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 08:58 AM
Sorry, gotta say it or I won't be able to sleep...
Four Minis & he never figured out how to use the bonnet stay??? 
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 09:04 AM
Sorry, gotta say it or I won't be able to sleep...
Four Minis & he never figured out how to use the bonnet stay???
I did think that 😂
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 10:06 AM
My thoughts exactly
Sorry, gotta say it or I won't be able to sleep...
Four Minis & he never figured out how to use the bonnet stay???
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 07:29 PM
Hi
Can't stand the man personally. Find him extremely boring.
Paddy
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 08:37 PM
Just an advertisement for his Gin...
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Posted 07 May 2025 - 06:33 AM
Sorry, gotta say it or I won't be able to sleep...
Four Minis & he never figured out how to use the bonnet stay???
It does seem that a lot of more mainstream content has to include an element of saying, or doing, stupid things when the presenter should know better. Perhaps it's so that the target audience doesn't feel too intimidated by the complex operation of putting the bonnet stay in the correct position 
and boycotts his Gin.
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Posted 07 May 2025 - 07:01 AM
It could also be cunning clickbait, knowing the likes of us won't be able to resist spreading it all over the interweb when picking fault. 
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Posted 07 May 2025 - 08:42 AM
or it was just an exaggeration of 'how rubbish the bonnet is on a mini'
I'm sure he knows where it goes really (surely...) and he just wanted to make it look worse than usual for 'comic effect' or something
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Posted 07 May 2025 - 09:23 AM
Sorry, gotta say it or I won't be able to sleep...
Four Minis & he never figured out how to use the bonnet stay???
And then he complains the Mini bonnet does not open up very far....ideally the insecure stay would have got nudged and brought the bonnet down on his head! 
Edited by mab01uk, 07 May 2025 - 09:23 AM.
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Posted 16 May 2025 - 03:18 PM
I still need to drive my mini to his pub. Not a gin drinker, though!
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