Comments on: The MINI Aero Kit: First Official Photos http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/ MotoringFile | MINI news, reviews and opinion. MINI Cooper, Cooper S, Clubman, Countryman Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MotoringFile » Archive » 2011 MINI Refresh: The Packages (US) http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-341988 MotoringFile » Archive » 2011 MINI Refresh: The Packages (US) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:07:40 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-341988 <p>[...] the “factory” MINI aero kit [...]</p> [...] the “factory” MINI aero kit [...]

]]> By: Body kit for my r56 cooper s. - MINI2 - MINI Forum http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-259883 Body kit for my r56 cooper s. - MINI2 - MINI Forum Sat, 16 May 2009 14:14:24 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-259883 <p>[...] [...]</p> [...] [...]

]]> By: MotoringFile » Archive » MINI USA Releases 2008 Prices http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-171150 MotoringFile » Archive » MINI USA Releases 2008 Prices Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:09:33 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-171150 <p>[...] Hyper Sport package is dead (moment of silence for that hideous body kit). But both options live on. The body-kit and Sport suspension can still be ordered individually - [...]</p> [...] Hyper Sport package is dead (moment of silence for that hideous body kit). But both options live on. The body-kit and Sport suspension can still be ordered individually – [...]

]]> By: Hyper Sport Package / Body Kit... - MINI2 http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-108016 Hyper Sport Package / Body Kit... - MINI2 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:14:27 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-108016 <p>[...] Welcome to MINI2 ... You're refering to color coded body trim If the following pictures from the MotoringFile are any indication, I'd rethink ordering the Hyper Sport Package MotoringFile Thread [...]</p> [...] Welcome to MINI2 … You’re refering to color coded body trim If the following pictures from the MotoringFile are any indication, I’d rethink ordering the Hyper Sport Package MotoringFile Thread [...]

]]> By: CoolBrit.net http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-94331 CoolBrit.net Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:05:39 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-94331 <p>[...] [...]</p> [...] [...]

]]> By: Jon http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-93427 Jon Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:48:14 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-93427 <p>In all the years of religiously reading Motoringfile, I have never seen this much hate for something coming out of Oxford. This is unprecidented.</p> <p>I hope you're listening, MINI!</p> In all the years of religiously reading Motoringfile, I have never seen this much hate for something coming out of Oxford. This is unprecidented.

I hope you’re listening, MINI!

]]> By: Ross http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-93347 Ross Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:31:04 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-93347 <p>BMW knock - knock - knock " Deadline is up "</p> <p>MINI Desingners etc (door...squeaking...opens very slowly) " this is what you get "</p> <p>BMW " OK, we'll take it "</p> <p>Buyers - uhh - NO, double NO NO</p> <p>months pass, launch over, sales booming! R56 is a hit - Sales in the US out pace the UK.</p> <p>BMW / MINI - " So how come we have yet to sell at least one buyer optioned hyper package? "</p> BMW knock – knock – knock ” Deadline is up “

MINI Desingners etc (door…squeaking…opens very slowly) ” this is what you get “

BMW ” OK, we’ll take it “

Buyers – uhh – NO, double NO NO

months pass, launch over, sales booming! R56 is a hit – Sales in the US out pace the UK.

BMW / MINI – ” So how come we have yet to sell at least one buyer optioned hyper package? “

]]> By: Yegor H. http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-93278 Yegor H. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:16:15 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-93278 <p>Unsuccessful solution. I agree with several posts above, that painting black arches in body color will defiantly help.</p> Unsuccessful solution. I agree with several posts above, that painting black arches in body color will defiantly help.

]]> By: bling http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-93024 bling Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:12:26 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-93024 <p>That's awesome. Thank you for reporting that the Works Mini will have its own kit as I'm not fond of the current JCW aero rear bumper or this beautifully crafted oem eyesore.</p> That’s awesome. Thank you for reporting that the Works Mini will have its own kit as I’m not fond of the current JCW aero rear bumper or this beautifully crafted oem eyesore.

]]> By: BG http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92920 BG Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:13:08 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92920 <p>I got a call last week that my order was going in at April Production with the hyper sport package. I spent this morning calling the dealer trying to remove this package. Hopefully they can still do it. Arg.....</p> I got a call last week that my order was going in at April Production with the hyper sport package. I spent this morning calling the dealer trying to remove this package. Hopefully they can still do it. Arg…..

]]> By: MiniMatt http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92840 MiniMatt Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:49:22 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92840 <p>Wowsers! How can an OEM kit as ugly as this be taken seriously? They can do better than that at Mini! It looks like a cheap add-on that you might find on a cheap japanese car or something... BUT, although it does nothing to reshape the front or rear bumpers, that Photoshop clearly shows the kits' main weakness... So any of you 'lucky' enough to own one of these aero kits might just have to get down and dirty with the matte black paint...</p> Wowsers! How can an OEM kit as ugly as this be taken seriously? They can do better than that at Mini! It looks like a cheap add-on that you might find on a cheap japanese car or something… BUT, although it does nothing to reshape the front or rear bumpers, that Photoshop clearly shows the kits’ main weakness… So any of you ‘lucky’ enough to own one of these aero kits might just have to get down and dirty with the matte black paint…

]]> By: Billy http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92794 Billy Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:58:29 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92794 <p>The photoshop is fantastic - might have to forward it to my boss Lol</p> The photoshop is fantastic – might have to forward it to my boss Lol

]]> By: Eelke http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92751 Eelke Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:38:42 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92751 <p>Thanks for the Photoshop, msh441. It illustrates the point brilliantly, the single biggest fuck-up is the interruption of the arches. Otherwise, it's not that bad. Now Mini should replace the "closed-up" opening on the rear bumper with some kind of black mesh, and a disaster may have been diverted.</p> Thanks for the Photoshop, msh441. It illustrates the point brilliantly, the single biggest fuck-up is the interruption of the arches. Otherwise, it’s not that bad. Now Mini should replace the “closed-up” opening on the rear bumper with some kind of black mesh, and a disaster may have been diverted.

]]> By: msh441 http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92686 msh441 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:14:50 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92686 <p>MAN! That's screwed up body kit!!! General R56 design critiques aside... as a "finished" aero product goes... someone should be embarrased (and fired) over this one.</p> <p>If you're going to go with painted bumper covers and side sills (and color matched fenders are out), for god sakes... DON'T have them interrupt/abreviate the fenders arches. If the fake brake ducts have to intesect, do something to tie them in like drillsliger showed... or set them apart like this:</p> <p>http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b330/msh441/MINI2.jpg</p> MAN! That’s screwed up body kit!!! General R56 design critiques aside… as a “finished” aero product goes… someone should be embarrased (and fired) over this one.

If you’re going to go with painted bumper covers and side sills (and color matched fenders are out), for god sakes… DON’T have them interrupt/abreviate the fenders arches. If the fake brake ducts have to intesect, do something to tie them in like drillsliger showed… or set them apart like this:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b330/msh441/MINI2.jpg

]]> By: BartMack http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92624 BartMack Sun, 04 Feb 2007 06:58:06 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92624 <p>The residual value of my first gen MCS with aero kit just went up!</p> The residual value of my first gen MCS with aero kit just went up!

]]> By: Nathaniel Salzman http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92469 Nathaniel Salzman Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:42:52 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92469 <p>In my opinion, all it shows is how lost Frank Stephenson's design language is on whoever is weilding the pen at MINI lately. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the majority of the design elements on the R56 are not in my view evolutions of what Frank did with the R50/53, but rather a derivative set of changes for change's sake. "It was an oval here before, let's keep it an oval and just extend it back. We had a big speedo before, let's make it bigger..." and so forth.</p> <p>Gabe, I couldn't agree more with you about the necessity of the wheel arches and the way the trim wraps around the bottom perimeter of the car - such a key to the look of the MINI. Here they're set off so much, they become the instant focus of the whole look of the car - which is simply horrid. It redirects the visual focus away from any sort of unified aggressive look to "hey look at these black wheel arches!"</p> <p>Awful. Awful. Awful. It seriously looks like it ought to be offered on an eBay auction in Asia for $39.95 USD! The JCW looks fantastic. How did they screw this up?</p> In my opinion, all it shows is how lost Frank Stephenson’s design language is on whoever is weilding the pen at MINI lately. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the majority of the design elements on the R56 are not in my view evolutions of what Frank did with the R50/53, but rather a derivative set of changes for change’s sake. “It was an oval here before, let’s keep it an oval and just extend it back. We had a big speedo before, let’s make it bigger…” and so forth.

Gabe, I couldn’t agree more with you about the necessity of the wheel arches and the way the trim wraps around the bottom perimeter of the car – such a key to the look of the MINI. Here they’re set off so much, they become the instant focus of the whole look of the car – which is simply horrid. It redirects the visual focus away from any sort of unified aggressive look to “hey look at these black wheel arches!”

Awful. Awful. Awful. It seriously looks like it ought to be offered on an eBay auction in Asia for $39.95 USD! The JCW looks fantastic. How did they screw this up?

]]> By: seb http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92459 seb Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:06:21 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92459 <p>I have it from a MINI USA insider that the design team responsible for creating the new aero kit was unable to make the final adjustments and design modifications as they wanted. Seems the eight-person team has mysteriously vanished under very suspicious circumstances ... since they completed their first project ... the center stack. The FBI is investigating.</p> I have it from a MINI USA insider that the design team responsible for creating the new aero kit was unable to make the final adjustments and design modifications as they wanted. Seems the eight-person team has mysteriously vanished under very suspicious circumstances … since they completed their first project … the center stack. The FBI is investigating.

]]> By: giacomo http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92411 giacomo Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:03:07 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92411 <p>Stop this please! It is a joke, no? MINI design team cannot have done this...it is too amateur! No, even much more worse! Please MINI/BMW, bring back Frank Stephenson and pay him whatever he asks, your future is on the edge like in The Italian Job, first edition...</p> Stop this please! It is a joke, no? MINI design team cannot have done this…it is too amateur! No, even much more worse! Please MINI/BMW, bring back Frank Stephenson and pay him whatever he asks, your future is on the edge like in The Italian Job, first edition…

]]> By: GZ http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92394 GZ Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:03:12 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92394 <p>If this is part of the "hyper sport" package, what else come with it. Any desirable performance features that will acually make people buy it?</p> If this is part of the “hyper sport” package, what else come with it. Any desirable performance features that will acually make people buy it?

]]> By: Bud http://www.motoringfile.com/2007/02/02/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-92387 Bud Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:51:25 +0000 http://motoringfile.com/2007/02/03/the-mini-aero-kit-first-offical-photos/#comment-92387 <p>A comprehensive redesign is the best alternative. And I don't simply mean the body kit, I mean the entire vehicle ... OR simply bring back the old design with its superlative hood/fender contours and deploy a frekkin' airbag from under the bumper to "safeguard ped safety." Similarly, bring back the beautiful curved glass C-pillars and much better scaled and more attractive tail lights that appeared to be molded into the body. Of course this may not be viable but at least it underscores some of the best features that have been allegedly foresaken for "safety sake."</p> <p>The fat fender lips will likely be reduced by an enterprising after-marketer handy with a lipo syringe although pouty Angelina lips are hot right now! How 'bout offering an inflatible options package that would enable remote inflation of not only the lips but also the grill frame. This would differentiate the expressions of aroused female MINIs from the now wanna-be "agressive" looking masculine bulldog MINIs. (:</p> A comprehensive redesign is the best alternative. And I don’t simply mean the body kit, I mean the entire vehicle … OR simply bring back the old design with its superlative hood/fender contours and deploy a frekkin’ airbag from under the bumper to “safeguard ped safety.” Similarly, bring back the beautiful curved glass C-pillars and much better scaled and more attractive tail lights that appeared to be molded into the body. Of course this may not be viable but at least it underscores some of the best features that have been allegedly foresaken for “safety sake.”

The fat fender lips will likely be reduced by an enterprising after-marketer handy with a lipo syringe although pouty Angelina lips are hot right now! How ’bout offering an inflatible options package that would enable remote inflation of not only the lips but also the grill frame. This would differentiate the expressions of aroused female MINIs from the now wanna-be “agressive” looking masculine bulldog MINIs. (:

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