2007 MINI In Motion

i hear more wind than turbo :(

I LOVE IT!!!!! There will surely be new intakes available shortly after introduction to get more of the turbo whine out of the engine bay.

I love the new front grilles, especially the chrome surrounded black one on the S.

I love the new rear bumper on the S. If I end up buying an S in ’08 I will most definately have to get the rear fogs.

I hadn’t notice it before, but I love then new gas gauge. That is just a cool addition.

I cannot wait to see one in person. I cannot wait to drive one. It is going to be a LONG wait until March ’08(when the lease is up on the Nissan).

Hey, it didn’t burst into flames! Excellent, that puts me at ease. Frankly, I just don’t get videos of cars driving. I just don’t know what I’m looking at. They all seem to show a car doing what a car does.

The S is just not the same to me without the “whine”….I may have watched too much Italian Job for my own good.

The new MC is so much more old school and pure looking than the MCS … whew!

The car looks good but without the supercharger it sounds like a VW (not that there is anything wrong with that.)

I think if the video becomes popular you will need to design a “Beware of Bull” grill badge :)

Yawn. Nice scenery, though.

I have to say that the one thing I noticed that I really liked was the new fuel gauge visible at 43 seconds into the video. Definitely new and different!

Good thing I watched it last night, even with my wife telling me to go to bed and saying “It’ll be up there tomorrow!!”

I love being right every once in a while. ;-)

This car reminds me of some of the designs that followed the original 911. Allot were very weak and some sparkling. This, to me is a weak version of a really stellar original design, not the mechanical stuff that all seems pretty nice. To me it’s lost that aggressive look to a more middle of the road vanilla pudd’n look.

A design director told me once, when I had to deal with a clients reconditioning of an old tired product… ” Slap some bold new graphics on it.”

Pieces I like but there’s just too much I don’t. Maybe when my ’04 MCS is past it’s prime something I like better will show up. I’m hoping the next R-whatevers are better.

ALSO: I don’t understand the people who have a problem with the hood scoop? Cars forever have had useless things like that on them. It’s kool looking to me as the MC is even weaker looking without it.

IMHO

The hood has lost the sexy curvyness. I have had women spontaneously walk up and run their hands over the fender and down the curve of the hood of my Cooper with licentious intent. I don’t think the new, mellowed-out shape will do that.