... Or Mini Cooper S Roadster do not know what goes before.
In my home we have always been friends of the Mini, my aunt Pili was one of the first, in a yellow color was just awful and my mother had a 850 de luxe although I the luxe did not look for any site. Sometimes I wondered if the luxe was to have doors. I could not say it was a fun car to wear because I remember who was just making noise and also an unpleasant noise, like Revelation, and bounced over the account.
When BMW took over Mini , I was very skeptical about the new reissue of the myth, I imagine it would be for reasons other than those discussed. I tried that first generation Mini by BMW which if I remember correctly mounted motor PT Cruiser and left disappointed . Version was Cooper and I found that I was not much thatthe electric power steering was scruffy , turning the steering wheel that gave off a noise like skinning cats -I do not know how they sound in that need, but if somehow sonasen would sound like that direction- and irritated me and change management that the knob had the size of a giant cupcake and thus proves hardly graspable. It also bothered me how the form was subject to the role and I found Cackling the central speedometer the size of a washing machine drum that has persisted in successive deliveries .
First Impressions: Interior
I start my rolling with it. Inside observed that the driving position is very good : the change is at the appropriate height, has a good drive with some slack, but it handles well and the handle is the size of a bullring.The bottom bracket is perfectly willing to do tip-heeled but it only comes with the cheat button SPORTactivated since otherwise the gas blow must be very pronounced or braking circuit must be able to sink the brake enough order to give the necessary gas blow. The steering wheel is adjustable in height and depth, I've always preferred depth only adjustable by telescoping because the height adjustment mechanism subtracts information. In this case does not matter because the wheel is the management interface of electric steering is very precise but by low gearing, it is less informative than a Cuban news.
So the driving position is good. But inside me again seems to have the cardinal sin of making the vehicle development in the aesthetics . Inside is plagued botoncitos tiny size inside which represent pictographs even smaller. Ergonomically not well resolved, the dispersion control is remarkable smallness of controls and questionable location makes the first contact with the auxiliary systems management frustrate me. Not find a coolant temperature gauge, even in the form of cold-heat warning light, but do find a speedometer giant, disproportionate, which is what the Germans have believed it was the soul of Mini . Inside a screen for navigation which has a very good resolution, but it has a small size and is managed through some icons that are tiny. Come to think, I'm sorry the simile. It's a good solution control, but for the tiny icons, the smallness of the screen and can be embedded into a washing machine drum for reasons which will provide much more image and little functionality.
Driving
It has a clutch pedal with a quick return and an action point to be dosed high fine, but the car starts andunless requested all acceleration the car heads , looks firm but not too hard dampers and features a hard springs but marginally aptly enough morons . For my taste should be a little firmer in extent but are not so explain.
Being the sportiest version of the range, safe from the Cooper S John Curra is what I expected to find the combination of car trite stiff as a board, insufferable, of those who play that sport and sportsmanship mistake of going on a carriage springs . Yes, the kind that once the asphalt degrades have so little ability to absorb that one would go faster in a wheelbarrow in those cars as aspiracionalmente sports .
But the car is not dry, not particularly uncomfortable , and is one of those where it is necessary to pine after a long journey before inserting the internal organs in place. Okay got a very good compromise on a car that does not meet him precisely because he expected the sportiest version of the range, special editions safe.
It drives well, it travels well, the car fits like a glove in their essential controls will not excessively rigid. The direction, while zombie, has a very good guidance accuracy but we must distinguish two uses.
Two cars
Insert sobada Jekyll and Hyde analogy.
On asphalt in good condition but the precise direction uninformative guide the car as with drawing pen. The drive supports arms well and do their job well, the good compromise of springs and dampers for the suspension to work effectively and accuracy is good though drawn in quickly when the boundary curve is nearby notice the little battle and makes need to go very fine director . The car asks and helps her to perform precise driving fine and given the little information that sings the wheel, the limit is presented in a progressive little what wheel for fine no problem.
But on asphalt degraded the car is another . It is a convertible at the end of the car and there where it shows much or little. This is the first. The torsional rigidity of a convertible and a strong hold not usually get along very well. This car does not seem to have a torsional stiffness of asphalt award and curly where before we saw precision, is now a car that twists and Parkinson's sick . Shakes and trembles and pleasure of use and accuracy drops significantly laureate goes down the sink passions. Which phrase so pretty, hey.
It is a condition of use, when the asphalt is damaged, driving attack should disappear in favor of one that can do one of three things: and we slow down and we get into trouble , or keep the pace and we more air into the path of the car or indeed started driving . In the first option, nothing to say. In the second, when with good surface, the car can take you tight, with short reins in a fist but as the soil is not perfect, if we want to keep up, we will have to start giving longer paths, leave more game, go longer and less subject. But under these conditions decreases the use reward for those who do not want to complicate your life and so it is best to relax the conducción.Para third, they must anticipate changes start to grab the steering wheel, rectify and correct lot and that can be rewarding for those who likes living and nerve reactions. In this third embodiment, the car bites, so you have to know how to do.
User experience.
I have found it rewarding to drive a car on smooth asphalt and provides a good driving enjoyment. No doubt that the successful engagement of suspension and an engine that can only be described as a formidable illuminate a shadow box that has more than I should.
The isolation is poorly managed, the car receives a considerable wind beating results in significant noise levels.
The auxiliary systems management through tiny buttons with pictograms insignificant either screen printed on and screen buttons makes you be spending too much time looking at the world that you have put instrumentation mode.
Instrumentation itself is an example of horror . the speedometer is a kind of pointer which moves clockwise around the planet and difficult to see , and in this case, no matter how small. Fortunately, the speed is shown digitally in a small box on the tachometer. I have found no coolant temperature gauge, even as a pilot light but I found an absurd clock measures the time it remains one uncloak . Yes, really. Lords of Mini, can not remove that bullshit that is worthless and put even if a temperature gauge, a pressure and oil temperature?.Who cares how long it is I uncloak?.
What the hell do I care about the time that I'm top down?
want an oil pressure, coolant temperature.
want an oil pressure, coolant temperature.
As convertible
Go ahead fled convertibles like the plague . It often seems that the less torsional rigidity too noticeable and it also comes at the cost of needing an exfoliation and a facial for descaling the city pollution-of the lungs can not be-that one of them is low as a conductor sounded and that this will happen until the sunshine and the wind beating end up with the problem of styling because in my imagination, all convertible servant just hopelessly bald.
It has, though with the added attraction of this magnificent 184 hp engine, acceleration eventful recovery and helped by a very tight staggering change, produces very nice pops on hold listening. Not a car with a big sound, does not announce his arrival and is tacky, but rather is characterized by backfire on hold and that I find attractive and would be the only reason to consider the convertible version. That and the lack of rigidity makes a car less capable and therefore more difficult and demanding and that, masochistic is one I like.
In summary the famous
Scraps for oblivion:
Motor sensational. Push, recovery, no matter the regime. No more is needed.
Good driving position
Successful suspension adjustment
Instrumentation insufficient
Double personality or manner or batter.
Address dim but accurate
Clearly improved insulation wind
Addictive behavior in good firm, is a car whose driver recompensa.Sobre bad firm can reward or even be a negative, depending on who is driving.
Fun at the wheel **** + (4/5). I wonder what it would be intrigued closed version of this car and if it would be worth it to try the John Curra.
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