Good morning listers,
Got this message on the mini list, and thought that you all might like
to
respond to him.
Fisher Jones
Comfort, TX
>From: Bkennedy85@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:42:25 EDT
>To: mini-list@autox.team.net
>Cc: Bkennedy85@aol.com
>Subject: Re: So What would you like..
>Sender: owner-mini-list@autox.team.net
>
>Rocky wrote:
>> Somebody, Rover, BMW, whoever (but I would prefer British), would
>> increase the overall sixe of the Classic Mini Body Shape *just* enough
>> to easily pass the ridiculous "safety" standards set ....
>
>A bigger Mini with the same engineering and maybe an A-series -- does this
>mean a return to the Austin/Morris 1100 (Austin America)? If it were to be
>done that's what it size it might be. Even though the 1100/1300 was really
>just a Mini in a slightly bigger package, it never had the charm or appeal of
>the Mini.
>
>For purely sentimental reasons, I like Rocky's idea about trying to upgrade
>the current Mini for all future needs, but it reminds me of what British
>Leyland did by keeping the MGB alive. In the end when the MGB finally died,
>its good name had been tarnished by the very crude attempts in its last years
>of production to meet ever stricter emission and safety regulations with
>truely wimpy engines, raised suspensions, and huge ugly black rubber bumpers.
>In short, the MGB became a joke about holding on the the past long after it
>should have let go. Ammends were made 15 years later when Rover, with the
>MGF, started with a clean sheet and went on to enhance the prestige of the MG
>marque with a new world class sports car. I am anticpating the same type of
>rebirth of the Mini marque with the New Mini (without the 15 year wait).
>
>Bruce Kennedy
>San Antonio Texas
>1965 Morris Mini Traveller
>
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