www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/automobiles/11minis.html
Dunno if this has already been mentioned and I don't have time to check.
(Sorry, no FM2R, No answer from you about the length of the link, so at 14.21 on 12-10-06 I cut it back to all that was needed.)
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"BMW recommends that owners use premium unleaded gasoline, which shot above $4 a gallon in parts of the country this summer."
The handbook in SWMBO's Mini One says it was designed for ordinary unleaded (95 RON). I daresay that the Cooper S needs super-unleaded, but maybe Americans are being fooled (not difficult) into believing that all Minis need 98 RON.
Although the engines are new, people will see the 'New Mini' as a facelift and not a completely new model, as it looks so similar. But I think it'll still sell well, as the Ford Ka still does after 10 years, as both are a hoot to drive.
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This months Car magazine has a very interesting article on the mini manufacturing process at Plant Oxford as BMW like to call it.
I think it is a huge success story and excellent news for UK jobs - yet another UK factory deliverng good products that people want.
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... owners use premium unleaded gasoline ..
in reply to avant:
you may find that "premium" does not equate to "super".
i believe the us "premium" is equivalent to uk's "premium" 95 ron petrol.
afaik, the uk does not sell "ordinary" or "regular" petrol.
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And in the States they don't use Ron much. So their 91 octane (Pon - average between Mon and Ron) equates to 95 Ron.
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It still looks like a Tonka Toy.
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Ah, but so does the Chrysler 300C...Just a bigger one.
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