I have the original X5, its nice to have but reaching the depth of the cargo area is a tall order...

Now consider the lenght arms you’d need to actually recover anything from that opening in the situation where a car is right behind you and its front end is low enough to open it. You can decide to throw your stuff in the back litteraly but it seems like a bad idea with groceries.

Considering with its size growth and price growth mini is no longer appealing to the same demographic in europe and is now specd in gray gray or dark gray or black gray or off white gray, I can understand that they’d want to drop options that once made money but don’t anymore.

Weird choice for the radiator. In my 1973 superbeetle convertible, I’ve ran single and dual radiators (for oil (for a 2L stroker enging)) what I mounted about 1 inch below the rear luggage area on either side of the gearbox. A simple and quiet fan on each.

Congrats on the new van. Has someone thought of how those conversions would play out with electric vehicules that all cram their batteries in the floor?

Plan B : wait a few more years, get a Euro one with 320hp... No need for dinan or anything else.

I bought and mounted those tinted superbeetle lenses... They come with a fully silver painted bulb holder.

The crate saying DO NOT TIP is however a great touch.

Put the third track on the door, not the car and the slider on the car, not the door...

I will bet anyone here it won’t work.

WTF is a trafic calming island? roundabouts are bad enough, people need to stop inventing things to crash into.

At this point I believe Japan and Nissan/Renault/Mitsubishi should just fold, dismiss all charges, appologize and pay Ghosn to remove all this from the news. There Might not be such a thing as bad publicity but this doesn’t scream “open for business” or “innovative and growing”.

aren’t those stretch bolts that would not thread properly the second time? Get new ones whenever you solve it.

Nice. Also, its DAINESE!!!!!!!

Diesel Wrangler has been avaliable in Europe forever.

I’m curious how they expect people to pay for all this...

They can when you floor it... I’ll be honnest, I wasn’t looking or a 4.6 and didn’t really care as I qui my mini cooper S convertible for room to transport my GF’s luggage and my labrador without playing tetris... Adding insult to injury, I’ve never put the 20" wheels on, I drive with the 18" snow tires and wheel all…

I’ll take a mini convertible or a BMW 1,2,3,4 series convertible with over 300 miles of true range on the highway with hills and facing wind with 3 people, my lab and luggage in the car.

A toyota lexus dealership near me has a 2000gt on one side of the door and an LFA on the other side, perfectly visible from outside the lot... I don’t want a Toyota nor a Lexus but I want to go in.

saw the movie two hours ago on French TV, you get a star for the 1988 reference.