> -----Original Message----- > From: John Francis > > Yep. Totally new, and much *much* better. > > I've driven both. Even viewed through the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia > the original mini definitely had it's share of rough edges. >
It'd be a disgrace if the new Mini wasn't very much better than the old - four decades better in fact. Even the most ordinary new cars are better than most cars from the sixties with just a minority of exceptions, and the old Mini was designed in the fifties. The new Mini was intended to be a sporty bit of nostalgia for cashed-up Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers, but Alec Issigonis designed the old Mini to be simply a cheap and economical city car. He vehemently resisted any use of it in motorsport, yet it shone across many categories and against many fancied competitors at high levels of the sport. The new Mini is certainly the superior car, but I don't believe it could ever dominate its contemporaries like the old Mini often did in the sixties. It had no more or less rough edges than any comparable car of the sixties, remembering that it was a budget and not a prestige car. Regards, Anthony -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
