Mini Cooper 2001 test drive - 2006 hatchback

Very elegant roasting

Two in one is about Mini Cooper Cabrio. Here it is, a universal item from a gentleman's set of a sinner: both an opener and a lighter. An excellent, elegant solution can be cooked and disconed. And if in the yard is summer, then it is better like this: first to be hungry, and then light it, give a light! So that it does not seem a little.

Yes, and wet so that it would not be nice too! And then, you know, the Messyats this year somehow did not immediately ask yourself, what a buzz is in a lighter without an opener?

Here is the mini in the Open Air version, but the heavenly bears in the usual option for St. Petersburg. Will we wait or in the rain? And I want, and it does not really split. Well, the test of the elements, as well as a healthy hardening through dousing with cold water, is a manly! Let's hit the road! Where is the fairway here? Well, the weather! It’s a pity, but to make your convertible obviously will not succeed. A rain trip on the open car Topless The event is strange and unsafe: even if the compassionate eyewitnesses of your feat will not cause a brigade of orderlies from Skvortsov-Stepanov, then at the end of the arrival you can elementarily fall into another hospital, with lung inflammation. Clapping and ready sickness!

Actually, you can ride without a roof in the rain. It should accelerate properly and almost all the rain, obeying the laws of aerodynamics, flies over his head, getting into water dust behind the stern of the minic. You can even raise the windows to some extent from the puddle, which oncoming and transverse transport strives to throw out on you at any opportunity. But still cold. What, it's time to return the cloth top up?

No. Let's hide, we better in the underground parking, now he already attracts us with his automatic barrier. Hurray, finally overwhelmed with a dry ceiling! Having shot the twilight of the dungeons with cannons of headlights, the convertible solemnly rolls on the concrete floor. The sound of the exhaust is reflected from the brick walls: it is not too loud here, but somehow extremely dense, energy. Well, a very confident car! And in the salon, God you are mine! What a beauty: all the colors are red! Space! O-PPa! Yes, I'm not alone here!

Yes, thanks, thanks. Yes, a cool car. Absolutely, expensive. What engine? One and six, 115 horses. Machine. Sorry, the variator of the six -speeds: there are allegedly six gears, one after another sectrally. Imitation, of course, but very natural! How is it going? In a wonderful way, you can have no doubt! I first rolled in fully automatic mode. I would not know that here the variator would never have guessed. The box masterfully depicts the transition from the transmission to the transmission. The engine does not stick at certain speeds: it is either cheerfully spinning, then again stuck at the next switch. Is not boring. And in manual mode, it is completely fun: you can jump on virtual programs with both the lever and by pressing specially trained buttons on the steering wheel. Choose how much you like! Personally, I have enough simple automatic mode, it is quite sensible here. Yes, and acceleration management is quite acute: Minic is very willing to follow the floor pedal of gas, regardless of the mode in which the variator works. This, of course, is not overwhelming Cooper S sulfur at a sports six -speed hetrag, but still a very peppy car with a pronounced active life position.

The convertible at first glance is beautiful for its four months. However, this, in fact, is still two in one: you can sit in front, but do you have children from behind? Will be! Then the rear row will come in handy no earlier, believe me. Or check by lent a couple of extra offspring for a while. It will be more interesting to ride a child in an open typewriter!

The cloth roof of the Mini Cooper Cabrio does not hide in the bowels of the car (there are almost no, these subsoil!), And is located outside the rear seats. Everything happens by itself, you just need to hold a pressed button on the frame of the windshield. There are no additional latches. But there is a hatch mode right on the move, you can slightly move the front of the roof back. Breathe deeper! Another button takes responsibility for the side windows in one fell swoop all four glasses fall into the brick sides of the car. Or, on the contrary, go back if it is cold. With the glasses raised by the microclimate system, taking care of passengers is much easier!

When raised by the top instantly, visibility disappears. In an intra -sulfate mirror, at best, two powerful chrome security arches will be visible. And in pretty ovals on the doors, not all of what should be controlled is observed. So, will we look at objective reality behind or will we simply step on gas?

Yes, the second is definitely! Mini loves and knows how. No matter who he is an opener or not. But always a real lighter! Acute steering, hard suspension and honed handling! Any turn to joy. And out of joy is delighted! Exactly, quickly only have time to steer. On the variator, by the way, it is even easier to take off your hands from the steering wheel. Not like a crazy sulfate with mechanics! You won’t relax there: it’s scary to let go of the steering wheel, holding out your hand for the next program. And here you steer and calmer and more confident. And you enjoy every meter of the road! And it doesn’t matter what the speedometer shows there, he is still secondly removed from her eyes down to the middle of the central panel. So you go endlessly the first!

Yes, you rush forward, obviously breaking something. But, you know, for some reason no remorse. To repent or sell your soul? Already too great temptation! I feel the roof going. I still feel the rain in the know how to competently fall beyond the scruff of the scruff. I feel that a free express machine gun with a full set of conductors and an excellent shirt a la Pierrot is already leaving Skvortsova-Stepanov. And I raise the top back. It's time to calm down.

I will pray so that the rain was pouring without ceasing. I do not want to envy someone more successful than I who will buy such a car. Envy of black feeling.
The car is provided by the company, the official dealer of BMW and Mini.

Autography
Mini Cooper Cabrio
Mini Cabrio predecessor (1993)
Premiere March 2004
Cabriolet body
Engines 1.6 l (90-170 hp)
Production of the UK
Expected replacement 2007

Text: Kirill Brevdo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

Source: Wheel magazine [No. 92 /2005]