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MotoringFile » Archive » MotoringFile Review: Cooper S Convertible — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:37:15 +0000

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By: ChrisLW

ChrisLW — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:09:37 +0000

Chris, check your bass / treble settings to make sure they're not set above the “default”. The H/K has a volume level limiter if these are higher.

By: MadisonMini

MadisonMini — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 05:11:58 +0000

Not loud enough?? Man, you need to get the wax cleaned out :)

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 05:05:32 +0000

I love my MCSC except H/K Stereo isn't loud enough!! Not worth it in my opinion.

By: MadisonMini

MadisonMini — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:11:43 +0000

I've driven mine in the rain, as long as you're going over 30mph, you stay dry in the front. Can't even tell it's raining unless you hold your hand up in the air. However, backseat passengers don't fare so well, no matter how fast.

Also sucks when you have to stop at a red light!

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:42:07 +0000

Gabe, if it rains, will you try the open top rain free experiment?

What I mean, certain speeds can deflect rain water away from you...

I would love to see this in action.

By: DCE

DCE — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:55:20 +0000

Dan Neil, the Pulitzer prize winning automotive writer for the Los Angeles Times, yesterday printed a review of his week with an MCSC. He said that even though he really likes the MINI, he thought the Cabrio's added weight combined with the sport package's 17" runflats really altered the character of the car. He felt that the ride was "harsh" and "shaky" particularly on rough surfaces.

How would you compare the ride to the coupe?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:09:18 +0000

Hehe, “balmy 58F”. I remember what it was like going to school in Chicago, you guys crack me up. ;)

By: TJKonarski

TJKonarski — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:30:20 +0000

Well, I'm sure that when rearview mirrors were mandated it looked odd to those who weren't used to them, or at the very least, willing to embrace them stylistically. (Kudos to the engineers and designers who work very hard to blend them into our cars as best they can.)

Picture a car with no rearview mirrors on the sides. It would have a cleaner, sleeker look that doesn't interrupt the eye. But now think of how odd it would look because we're so used to seeing them on every car manufactured.

Personally, I like and appreciate the look of the fold in the MC Convertible top when in sunroof mode. It's a distinctive "trademark", unique to only the MINI Cooper Convertible, and perhaps will start a trend that we may see on many other convertibles produced in the future. If so, perhaps by then we will be so used to seeing it that we wouldn't even notice it. ;-)

By: MassMINI

MassMINI — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:58:11 +0000

I've got a 3 week old MCSC and am finding the sunroof mode to be excellent. I like that it's as wide as the roof itself. Only draw back I see so far is that it looks odd from the outside with the single fold of fabric resting behind the opening. From the driver's seat you don't care. The cabrio is everything I hoped it would be.

By: Tom F.

Tom F. — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:25:39 +0000

GSKChicago...no worries, Mini gets full credit for bringing the concept into the 21st century.

It does seem to be a singularly Brit invention, maybe because of the fickle climate and the limits of those pre-automatic days.

By: GSKChicago

GSKChicago — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:14:43 +0000

Tom F… Okay, fair enough, but based on that picture you show at the provided link… It is a manual roll back roof. I venture to say no other company has made a convertible top that is automatic via the push of a button. For that, MINI indeed should get ingenuity credit. My two cents… :o)

By: Tom F.

Tom F. — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:14:29 +0000

The two-step foldback roof certainly is a brilliant idea, but no one should think its new.

Its an old british concept called the “drophead coupe” that has been around certainly since the 1930's, and maybe longer. Many different marques made a model like this including Jaguar, Hillman, Sunbeam, and MG.

See the website link for a photo, or maybe this will work: http://www.mgcc.se/SA-t-e.htm

By: SuperCharged

SuperCharged — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:31:33 +0000

Although I dont personally drive a MCSC, I would have to agree that the idea of the roof still being able to go into “sunroof” mode is a brilliant idea.