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Old 09-19-2007, 04:38 PM   #1
johnfowles
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Default The new Mini Clubman


this is a link for anybody who is interested (as I obviously am), in cars/automobiles/motors.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...C-mot_19092007
As you can see this is a stretched version of the BMW built new Mini to make an estatecar/station wagon, with an added back seat passenger door on just the one side and the article is extremely caustic and I found amusing about the German response to the writer when he pointed out that as it was for UK buyers on the "traffic" side ( not the pavement/sidewalk) it was as well as a rear hinged "suicide" door a double suicide door since to use it in the UK means getting out into the path of any passing traffic. The German excuses are priceless, as are the opening comments about the 1966 World (Soccer) Cup and the War sorry Vera!!
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