Mini Cooper 2001 test drive - 2006 hatchback

Red British pepper

How do you have nerves? Wonderful? Do you think or are sure? Great, let's check. Only a few exercises and everything will become clear. So the measuring device is available. Dear dashboard, of course, but accurate and very, very interesting. Import, good. And what a beautiful one to say in a fairy tale or with a pen to describe!

Mini Cooper S The most powerful version of this small Anglo-German car presented in Russia. More stringent, than on simple mini, suspension, mechanical six -speed Getrag box. And, of course, the engine: the Pentagon four -cylinder engine with a capacity of as much as 170 horses equipped with a Roots rotor supercharger. Megastile, compact, almost sports car. Impressive?

Well, let's go. Ah, stalled? Well, nothing, nothing. We all went through it. Everyone stalls, yeah, yes. The moment the sea is not about the Cooper S. Motorchisch (he himself came up with something between the words of the motor and motorcycle), although it develops Newton-Meter Meters providing for the Malipus Minik, but you will have to wait up to four thousand revolutions per minute. At this point, a hurricane rages at the tachometer, but it begins a little earlier after the third thousand. And before that, do not blame me: so -so a breeze, moderate. The main thing at the start is not to stall. I said: on Kuper, everyone goes through it!

However, the real voltage begins later. So, click, twist, switch! Still click, switch again! Faster Faster! Who said? I said? Complete, it seemed to you! I am silent like a fish about ice! And he says. Yes, Cooper Es is alive and can talk. And not just to talk, but to chat incessantly, to tire! Sometimes it’s completely commanded. Yes, it makes you go in open text, drive!

I said alive? No, he is very alive! If you do not be shy about it, you should be drunk on the fashionable floor pedal of the accelerator, then Cooper S will give a little such heat! Faced by the compressor of the four! Blows the roof. The car is so powerful and assertive forward that it seems that you have not overdoed the gas? Where we are in a hurry, huh? Yes, we are in no hurry, you just have to give at least some output of the whole energy that is concentrated under the hood of Eska! So it turns out a sort of mechanical amphetamine: joy over the edge, even more vigor; Sleep and appetite go away, and all needs replaces an irresistible desire for a continuous, non -stop movement for the sake of movement itself!

And what about the nerves? Oh, they play! Feel? Crazy motor and six clear programs, one next to the other a dangerous combination! When in the heat of the chase for your own shadow (if you are lucky with the sun in the back) you rush along the suburban road, then overtaking passing cars, then stopping in front of them, you should be special to take care of the choice of transmission. Clock the fifth with the third and the motor explodes with indignation: hey, moron, are you in yourself? Do you wish my death? No, no, no and there were no thoughts! I inadvertently undertake me, honestly! And after a couple of such brokeners, you begin to be careful, almost double -check: did you turn on that program? Strains. You need to train, get used to, look for accuracy and attention in yourself. And it's great! For informative and interesting. And this is what the machine attracts to itself.

So, the following exercise: rebuilding the neighboring row. Do you have a good antiperspirant? Hope. You will be shocked by how sharply the car reacts to your very slightest steering wheel. Shuh! It is worth a little move the sports three -spoke trunk and the car is already in another row. The steering is so sharp that you can cut! No, a relaxed driving with one hand is not expected on a rim. It's just scary! The slightest inaccuracy and the ESCA begins to jump on the road to the right and left. I'm not saying what is happening with the car in the rut at speed! It requires a marginal concentration due to a hard suspension, the car actively leads around.

But the most-most voltage is overtaking. At the near -hundredth speeds, it turns into almost complete extreme: as if this is not a simple and ordinary procedure, but a battle for the championship on the road. So, complete focus: you need to quickly think and act. Go to a lowering gear and not miss, make an exact movement of the steering wheel, instantly get ahead of the victim and return to their own row. Although no, you can not return on the way the next victim! Uff!

We tend it without problems: the brakes are convenient and effective. Yes, riding Mini Cooper S is a game in which the whole world acts as an opponent. A game with certain rules: you can’t go slowly, you can’t be afraid, you can not give in. And the car itself is also an opponent, a very strong opponent. And he is a weapon. What, complex rules? Enough. But the game is worth it. I would like to study, improve. The reward of emotions, surprisingly saturated, a sort of concentrate of pleasure. This is how super -lodger mechanical amphetamine is the only permitted law.

Autography - Mini Cooper S
Predecessor - Morris mini minor (1959)
Premiere - September 2000
Modernization - Summer 2004
Body - hatchback, convertible
Engines-1.4-1.6 l (75-200 l.
Production - Great Britain
Expected replacement - 2008

Text: Kirill Brevdo
 
   
   
 
  
 
     
 

A source: Wheel magazine [3 (89)/2005]