150 replies to this topic

[BadgerBaiter]

Maybe not tacky, but they are cheap and plasticy. I gave one a go, just to see if I was being a stick in the mud... but when I was in it, I found the fittings and interior poor, and very plasticy. Yuck, and that was just the interior!!

[Roo]

Phoenix has loads of chrome...

Arches
side strips
wipers
washer jets
roof gutter trim
angel eyes

She doesn't look tacky.... the chrome goes well with the colour...

Althugh the arches will be disappearing ... not wide enough

haha as you said to me at beaulieu, "i could be pulled for a number of reasons" and when you change arches... pweaaase dont go for sportspack arches

Everyone who knows me knows i don't like sportspack arches

They are so common practically every mini i see has em on!!

Phoenix is going with grp5 euros

[Down&Out]

Phoenix has loads of chrome...

Arches
side strips
wipers
washer jets
roof gutter trim
angel eyes

She doesn't look tacky.... the chrome goes well with the colour...

Althugh the arches will be disappearing ... not wide enough

haha as you said to me at beaulieu, "i could be pulled for a number of reasons" and when you change arches... pweaaase dont go for sportspack arches

Everyone who knows me knows i don't like sportspack arches

They are so common practically every mini i see has em on!!

Phoenix is going with grp5 euros

you share my dislike then

[mab01uk]

A prime example of a mini which is really tacky. (anything with a bmw badge)



And i dont really like clear rear lights or union jacks.

Agreed, they look like something that fell out of a Xmas cracker or a box of cornflakes.

I can remember many Mk1, 2 & 3 early Mini Cooper enthusiasts saying something similar when the rather plasticky Rover Cooper was new but most moved on and lived with it in the Mini scene after a few years. I agree that some of the few remaining BINI bashers on here should perhaps do the same................
A MINI just like many classic Mini's can also be modified in a tacky way to some people's eyes but they all have their place in the diverse Mini/MINI scene and as some have said even tacky Minis add interest, also most of us look back and realise we made tasteless choices but often learn't from our mistakes for any future mods!
Finally if the new MINI was tacky looking or of poor quality when they leave the factory in Oxford I doubt they would have sold over a million so far all over the world or be building them in similar record numbers to the classic Mini when at its peak in the early 1970's?

[taffy1967]

Well some Mk1, 2 & 3 early Mini Cooper enthusiasts are so far up their own rearends, that they'd probably have spit blood even if perfect replicas of their own MKI, 2 & 3 etc Coopers had been remade. (Naturally really as it would have affected the values of their cars?).

Anyway there's nothing plastic about a Rover Mini Cooper and at least it was made at the same factory and in some cases by the same people who made the original Mini Coopers.

So think on sunshine.

[taffy1967]

Anyway recently I did a lot or research into the genesis of the Rover Mini Cooper and I discovered that in many cases, the negative attitudes towards the Rover Cooper were simply tongue in cheek comments from people who actually owned more modern Minis anyway: -

http://z11.invisionf...p?showtopic=262

So sink your teeth into that one Mab01.

Edited by taffy1967, 06 September 2008 - 07:17 PM.

[THE ANORAK]

i think this topic has moved away from what the original poster intended.

i am really sick of reading it now and i call for it to be closed

[Shifty]

i think this topic has moved away from what the original poster intended.

i am really sick of reading it now and i call for it to be closed

Is that because the postie has just delivered your new spangly bumpers!!!

[THE ANORAK]

no

it's because I'm sick of people actually getting wound up about what basically boils down to "opinions"

by all means have a light hearted bit of fun about it but dont get personal, dont take it personally and dont start the silly childish bickering.

its actually embarrassing to read

Edited by THE ANORAK, 06 September 2008 - 08:44 PM.

[Sam Walters]

stupidly wide arches,

i resent that, im forced to both my minis have 8 inch wide wheels.



this next comment will not offend anyway, but this mini is tacky.



its mine. all 8 grand of it.

Edited by flyingears2002, 06 September 2008 - 08:30 PM.

[the.stroker]

wide arches,so what,ive put miglias on the stroker beast,its my car and i like them!!!

Edited by the.stroker, 06 September 2008 - 08:37 PM.

[Sam Walters]

wide arches serve a purpose to cover wide wheels.

however people who spacer wheels to make thier car look wider is daft.

Edited by flyingears2002, 06 September 2008 - 08:42 PM.

[mab01uk]

Anyway recently I did a lot or research into the genesis of the Rover Mini Cooper and I discovered that in many cases, the negative attitudes towards the Rover Cooper were simply tongue in cheek comments from people who actually owned more modern Minis anyway: -


So sink your teeth into that one Mab01.

I never said I agreed with their comments, I like ALL Minis. I was only relating that the die hard enthusiasts attitude to the Rover Cooper in the early 1990's (I owned one at the time) was very similar to your view of the new MINI now.

Like all cars though my later Rover Minis did have a lot more plastic trim, dash and switches in than my early Mk1 & 2's but quality did improve further in the last few years of production.

Many Classic Mini's were also built at the Cowley, Oxford factory..........on a recent tour of the new MINI plant on the same site at Cowley we were shown around by a recently retired worker who related many interesting stories to us about his classic Mini production days there. It really is a good interesting day out with some nice classic Mini's of various types also on show in the factory.

Edited by mab01uk, 06 September 2008 - 08:56 PM.

[monkey]

Currently on ebay

Ill be honest, IMO this looks better than the actual BINI, think BMW should put this into production instead of that other *rubbish*, allthough it would still be german. (this is just my opinion)

[Minigirl]

wide arches,so what,ive put miglias on the stroker beast,its my car and i like them!!!

i like them too love your mini

so some one puts a post up asking for peoples opinions...no one's right or wrong in what they think. everyone's entitled to there own opinions and they're all different that's why each mini is interesting and individual as its been said before it would be a very boring world if we all liked the same thing

Edited by Minigirl, 06 September 2008 - 10:12 PM.