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[Mini_Magic]

early one piece sticker on top and later segmented sticker below...

Is there a reason why my late Cooper Sportspack has the "early one piece stickers" and not the "later segmented sticker"?

this is something i will have to look into and get back to you.

The Rover engineers probably just grabbed whatever stickers they had left when they built my Mini!

Just looked again at those photos you posted above, now I'm not sure which one mine has! I'll have to check it later.

[THE ANORAK]

once again, thanks for all the supportive comments on this topic

i glad some of you got the point i was making

[pinch]

i support anorak completely.

there's errors in the sportspack buying guide if i remember too, something about electric windows and central locking as standard! and i think there's a pic of the interior and you can see a window winder! not much help when you go and spend upto 8 grand on a late mini and you look inside and start questioning people when you don't see electric window switches.

maybe i'm anal too.

[Mini_Magic]

there's errors in the sportspack buying guide if i remember too, something about electric windows and central locking as standard!

I don't think you could ever get central locking or eletric windows as an option, let alone standard!

[charlie_the_miniboy]

i thought it was only the mini 40 that had them as standard..??? might be wrong....
i know they were an option on all the newer ones

[sazal]

Why dont you apply for a job there? Then the facts will be right forevermore!!

[THE ANORAK]

Why dont you apply for a job there? Then the facts will be right forevermore!!

yeah, imagine if i was to get even the slightest detail wrong

they would sell out at the angry mob shop



guess I'd have been asking for it though

[Mini_Magic]

Why dont you apply for a job there? Then the facts will be right forevermore!!

yeah, imagine if i was to get even the slightest detail wrong

they would sell out at the angry mob shop



guess I'd have been asking for it though

I'm not affraid to use my gun...again.

[sazal]

I want to know if the stuff on the advantage is right, they were a bit mean, saying it was the worst and most boring out of the limited editions. Even if its true they didnt have to say it!! I like my mini advantage

Edited by sazal, 14 January 2008 - 02:47 PM.

[Mini_Rob]

First of all I want to say thank you to The Anorak, and well done. I didn't spot any mistakes in the Mini Mag article myself, but, it was because I didn't know they were mistakes, I took what they said to be true as I knew no different. Had I not come on here and read about it I wouldn't have none it was wrong, and I'm grateful he's done it

[Holly]

I have just read through the whole of this topic took a while i know but

I agree with Anorak! When you purchase something you expect it to be factual! There are so many people in this world that take things as see and dont question it and i feel it is the responsability of the publishers to maintain there reputation of being truthful!

[THE ANORAK]

I want to know if the stuff on the advantage is right, they were a bit mean, saying it was the worst and most boring out of the limited editions. Even if its true they didnt have to say it!! I like my mini advantage

what month/year was the advantage in then ???

I'll see if I've kept it

[sazal]

Autumn 2007. It doesnt say it exactly how I put it, but I got that impression when I read it. And it says they have tinted glass, but I swear mine isnt. and Im sure its the original glass, cause its got her reg on it.

[mini_morley]

Anorak, im with you completely here. If i know as much as you (which i dont ) Id be really pee'd off about the rather obvious mistakes that you have pointed out. Well done to you!

Edited by mini_morley, 14 January 2008 - 04:06 PM.

[THE ANORAK]

just read the advantage article and i can only find one mistake and that's in the distinguishing features box. it says that it should have a radio-cassette fitted as standard when it is in-fact just a radio. (as seen it the picture). the radio cassettes came in a few years later.

i see what you mean about them not really liking the car, it just gets put down as not very special. but then one of the photo captions claims that it was quite distinctive

I'm starting to get the impression that one guy writes the text, one guy takes the pics and another guy puts it all together, but none of them ever really look at each others work

you can only really put this down to opinions, but then its facts we want not opinions. yes it should have tinted glass and the one in the pics certainly does. to be honest you probably wont notice the tint unless you hold some plain glass next to it.


but to be fair, on a factual basis its very close

i actually think that the rarity of a standard advantage makes them really quite desirable and they were certainly more "special" than the previous London editions.

Edited by THE ANORAK, 14 January 2008 - 04:10 PM.