Not sure that you’ll want mini regardless of the range. They aren’t really aimed for longer jouneys.

Needs turbo:

Actually the stalling is not an issue apparently if you know how to use the clutch in this on. So no slipping it at all. Also they seem to last longer these days.

Well it’s a tractor of a motor. Power/cc is again hardly the point. Low price, low end torque and tractability is they key for such engine. Most likely most of them will be hauling 6 persons and random assortment of cattle at same time.

I’ve had ~10 close calls with moose. with car. Closest was in snowstorm and basically I just saw the ass end touch the car corner. It was so slippery that I couldn’t have done anything and the visibility was so low anyho, that it was pure luck that we didn’t hit it.

Well if you keep adding costly features it will be more costly bike. Which it is clearly not aimed to be. And using choke is hardly a chore.

Moose are the worst. Hitting one of those suckers would have resulted one dead family and totally wrecked Pao. Deers are just one level up from rabbits. Heck even semis are wrecked if they hit one full on.

The point was that if they would have made the Mini in ‘13 (or when ever the I3 came out) with that power train and CF construction. The green house would have been bigger and form closer to original mini.

Now it’s fine, but doesn’t really stand out. Especially as the Honda is also pressing to that market as is the…

What still baffles me is that why in gods name BMW doesn’t put the I3 drive train into Mini. I mean it would prefect sense. The dimensions are right, it would make it semi-spacious like the original, limited range would not matter as it would be Mini and premium pricing would also be spot on.

Are those wheel bolts for alloys? And used to bolt on steelies? One would assume that’s not OK. Alteast otherway round it’s not OK.

Isetta would be quite statement. Also for some reason I cannot reply to this discussion, only to you?

Well the his character in Twin Peaks wasn’t the most ordinary of the era either. It was the first one I remember him of.

Great actor and seems to be nice guy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in bad role.

The early movies were quite interesting. Not just the shark killings, but also as the whole scuba stuff was quite “lets try and see what happens”-sort of stage. But different time, and he apologized later for it.

It was actually hoot to drive. Very Mini-like.

The throwback was not that necessary, but added some depth to Gaals past. However the knife-key-thing was rather silly.

The mk1 BMW Cooper S is really interesting. I still look at them sometimes, even though they are bit heavy on maintanace at this point. The supercharger doesn’t last forever nor does the electrics. But it’s prettiest and most desirable of these modern Minis.

Dunno, actual Trials riding is much more interesting.

Mjea, gas prices are getting pretty high on this side of pond too. I think regular hit 1,8€/l here in Finland and premium is about 1,9. So it’s about 8$/gallon if I calculate it correctly. Diesel is little less.

So they put Kirk in giant Space Dildo. Pretty sure that’s new in Trek world.

So did they anything else than painted the shell and put it together?