Cooper S gets the lowest or the second lowest tune of B48. The engine should definitely be capable of 250hp or more, but BMW will keep those tunes for BMWs and possibly JCW.

Not the same engine as 320i. 320i uses a lower tune version of N20, while Mini will be the first production car with the new B-series engines: 3-cylinder B38 for Cooper, 4-cylinder B48 for Cooper S, and diesel B37 for Cooper D.

No, this is a taxi:

What I say in English doesn't matter, because I think in Russian. Foolproof.

I drove a VW Golf 1.6TDI manual for four days in Norway last year. 1100km - full tank of gas. At no time did I or my wife (whose daily driver here is a 135i) think that the car was underpowered. Obviously, it wasn't a rocket, but we never felt that we needed more power.

Autoblog's source is wrong.

While I agree with you that this is a great car with a lot of staying power, I must point out that your basic premise is incorrect. BMW _is_ bringing the successor here. The fact that the naming is different really means nothing.

Flugplatz is one of the nastiest turns on the Ring.

35-40? You must be joking. 328i is certainaly going to start at 42-43, which means 50 out the door with typical options.

Two words: Hola Unblocker.

I'm about to put mine on the market and won't let it go for less than ~3x that. For someone to sell it for $2500, the owner must have been really stupid, or really hungry for cash, or the car must have had some major problems.

I am a husband and a father, and I approve this ending.

These people have no clue how awards work. See [boardingarea.com]

For a wagon-loving site, you did pretty shitty research before posting the article.

Blackout/All Clear was/were the worst Nebula winner book(s) I ever read. Especially the second half. To paraphrase Ms. Willis' favorite saying, for want of an editor, the story was lost.

I'm in IT. I drive an E39 Touring. Lots of space for hardware and the right kind of car to get to the datacenter quickly in an emergency.

To get rid of aphids, kill ants with traps. Since the traps are of interest only to ants, no useful insects will be harmed. And without ants, aphids will be unprotected and easily killed by ladybugs.

Here's the original novel: [www.amazon.com]

Vote: Obihai + Google Voice.

Merritt Parkway goes through Connecticut. That pretty much kills any possible enjoyment, because Connecticut cops are deployed everywhere (there are plenty of spots for them to hide, with maybe just one exception of the twisty section on approach to NY border), they have shitty attitudes, and they just love writing…