Test Drive Mini Cooper since 2006 hatchback

Good mood cars

Good Day Sunshine! Remember, was the Bitles such a song? Something like the day you need, the sun shines. You sing it, and the mood somehow rises at once: guys, spring in the yard! Smile, damn, because life is a great thing! Yes, do not turn the neck, I still turn around and rejoice over you again!. And everyone around and rightly begin to smile! After all, today we have a couple of good mood cars. Good and cool Volkswagen Beetle and begging lawn mower MINI COOPER! Loose bored! Better Spot with me: Good Day Sunshine, Good Day Sunshine, Va-A-y !!!
I Need to Laugh and When The Sun Is Out,
Ive Got Something I Can Laugh About.
(I'm so funny, even if there are no sun,
I have a thing for laughter.)
Rather, get up, sun! After all, under the window are waiting for small detects. From above exactly like toy! And immediately recognizable won, red with a white roof, well, just as a real mini cooper S, where in 1964, Paddy Hopkirk selected the 1st place in the Monte Carlo Rally. And look at that silver, as if drawn with a circular! Well, how not to smile here! Both cars are a stunning alloy of modern design and technologies with a cult style. The same inside. The MINI interior in spirit will fully fire the exterior design. Two-spoke steering wheel, a number of togglers at the bottom of the center console, the speedometer in the center (by the way, only to scare passengers!) All as in the first mini. And the seats with excellent side support will be delighted even gourmets. That's just a folding mechanism is some kind of illogical and uncomfortable. But the back is not too spacious, therefore it is preferable to rush on Mini together.
Beetle is less colorful inside mainly due to black and gray plastic. True, there is its highlights in his interior. For example, the dashboard in the style of the progenitor, to the right of which is a small ... Vase for flowers! And sowing behind the wheel, as if you find yourself in a minivan front panel occurs with a windshield somewhere far beyond the horizon. Yes, and the back seat here fully copes with your right duties, although the ceiling and hangs over your head.
I Feel Good in a Special Way,
Im in love, and its a sunny day.
(I feel good, let the shadow in the sky
I am in love, let it be a light day.)
I just fell in love! Well, why no one can understand that Mini is not at all trying to unwind the soul from the passengers. Vice versa! The MINI control process is simply nothing comparable! Hey, Banderloga, where are you? Where did you hide your brabuses? I still find you and break! This lawn mower obviously dreamed of being a card in childhood! Heavy in parking modes, but a stunningly informative steering wheel, making up only two turns from stop. Short-door gearbox lever with a round iron embodious. Further pedal node ... And now we connect all this with a decent gasket and get a small road bomb.
The famous pilot of the Grand Prix John Cooper can be proud that his name is written on the nameplates of this car. The mini reaction is so clear and the reader's actions on the actions of the driver, that the control process itself turns into an endless pleasure! Yes, the reaction, especially with the disabled ESP, may seem too sharp and sharp. But however, as obedient, the car prescribes turns and keeps the speed directly from the trajectory. It shakes, however, be healthy, but the energy intensity seems to be simply infinite ... When, having disperse from the traffic light of kilometers to 120, suddenly realized that there was a band of obstacles (road workers took the asphalt, I forget to put at least some sign!), I prepared Make the front suspension of the MacPherson type suspension, and through holes in the hood ... What was the surprise when the suspension did not even worked before the bunches, and Cooper landed, a little shudder and drove on!
We Take a Walk, The Sun Is Shining Down,
burns My FEET AS Touch The Ground.
(Go to walk, and the sun sends rays,
Burns feet, hot paths.)
In vain, I moved to Beetle immediately after Cooper ... Maybe it was why at first it was so irritated for rolls, smooth, without pickups, the nature of the engine, and clearly somewhere all night of a staggering, and therefore extremely slow and thoughtful automatic. But then everything gradually fell into place. We go to walk, and the sun sends rays .... where, damn, hurry. Beetle must be walking, and not drive back and forth! Of course, he also knows how to ride it, and very good. Especially good brakes work. On the segment of serpentine they were removed from very beautiful ears in Kuvette. In general, extreme tricks are better to save for Mini. And on the beetle you can ride calmly and with great comfort, while the attention of others is ensured.
And Then We Lie Beneath A Shady Tree,
I Love Her and Shes Loving Me.
(And we went with her under shady maple,
She is in love and I'm in love.)
And now you can really relax from curious views and adrenaline emissions under the canopy of something big and green (for example, Army Kamaz), and at the same time to strive about the fate of ideas and the creations of great people. And Mini, and Volkswagen Beetle were created in not the easiest time for automotive times. The beetle did his first steps in the German destroyed and bleed after the war. He had to become a purely utilitarian and mass country acutely needed a cheap and affordable vehicle. Mini was created later, immediately after the crisis on the oil market associated with the Middle Eastern events of 1957. In the ultra-shred duration, which cushed the most severe technical task, the brilliant engineer Alec Iscigiis was nevertheless to create not just a car, but the deepest concept of such machines at all.
Times have changed. The current beetle comes with a conveyor in Mexico, and mini can be called a British car very conditional. Looking at the beetle, you understand how genius is the idea of \u200b\u200buniform platforms, which Ferdinand PIh actively crossed. After all, without her, the Germans would hardly have decided to reincarnate legends. And in Mini, the true British spirit of the progenitor autokes high German technology from BMW, which made it not just a beautiful toy, but a serious and delta car.
She Feels Good, She Knows Shes Looking Fine.
IM SO PROUD TO KNOW THAT SHES MINE.
(She is good, she is good
I'm so proud that I found it!)
Obviously, the creators of the originals and their modern heirs were guided by completely different principles and pursued different goals. After all, the new beetle and mini will never be massive and cheap cars. Held them a lot of enough wealthy people who may not take care of the functionality of these machines. But, damn, after all, there are those who buy them in spite of everything, the real fans of the real legend! So there is a row of rest in the steering wheel and full gas. While the sun shines, you need to give people smiles and joy! In the end, what could be better?! Good Day Sunshine, Good Day Sunshine!
 
Text Alexander Bocharev
Photo by Alexander Nozdrin
How do they look:
Nikita Rozanov
     
 
OUTSIDE:
If I were a photographer, then the background for shooting this test would have chosen the Children's World shop, and would try to call inside, right into the soft toy section. Believe me, there is not a drop of sarcasm very much eccentric and pretty crammed this time. I repent today I can not be objective. Both car I really like, and like the same way. Moreover, I would bought them at the first opportunity. True, in the same children's world, on the second floor, where the models are sold in my favorite scale 1:24. Now they are behind the glass shelves, each next to its historic prototype: Classic Mini from Alera Iscongis and Classic Volkswagen from Ferdinand Porsche. Compare their design with newwakes, it can be seen how the family features and the most smallest details were transferred to designers across decades. Here we would learn when they were taken for Volga-3111! And Mini, and New Beetle managed to save even the parameters of the main volume of the body of their eminent ancestors. And this despite all the rigidity and determination of modern aerodynamics, technology and economics. And the details! Peer in their faces and profiles they are both in the monacle families flesh from the flesh parents. Genes ...
RESULTS
Mini Extremely correct remake and an extremely accurate stylistic arrangement of a classic theme, but it is very mischievous and very cheerful.
Volkswagen New Beetle Stylization of the highest professional level. The car, with all the preservation of the image of 70 years ago, at the same time contemporary, and emotional. It's very nice!
INSIDE:
Car interiors cause not so equivalent emotions as their outdoor appearance. But there are also no losers here, it just works time. The design of New Beetle went on the 5th year, the mini product of the first year of the new century. This difference is felt in style and in detail. Mini can afford greater playfulness or discourability (understand how you want), and New Beetle a few robin, and the seriousness of your style even reminds the serial Golf. It is not scary, because if you remember, the instrument panel of the classic beetle was and altogether. The interior of Mini as if plays with you as a Black Sea Dolphin with her girlfriend: only splashes fountain in the sun rays very effectively and emotionally. Take, for example, an extraordinary doors upholstery panel or layout of the instrument panel. The game is everywhere and even in a comparative test test, where it may seem that the beetle is fighting off from the pressure of the fashionable MINI delights only with an elegant bouquet of artificial colors from a plastic vase near the steering wheel. But, first, Vasuchka was present at the historic beetle of the mid-60s, and secondly, with a bouquet, even plastic, not so scary to meet even the most gloomy morning ...
RESULTS
MINI At first glance it may seem that the interior is too P Pestry and is worried in decoration and details. But everything is very stylish and tasty, and in general is a subtle continuation of the game.
Volkswagen New Beetle high-quality and cautious design looks (in comparison) rational and very correct, and some details make the necessary proportion retro.

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