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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => Motoring => Topic started by: eye30 on October 29, 2016, 14:24:03
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If you think the new Mini Countryman, unveiled this week, looks more maxi than mini, you’re not wrong. It’s the biggest Mini ever launched — 20cm longer and 3cm wider than its immediate predecessor.
Some 57 years after the original, designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, stunned the world as a nimble 10ft square box on wheels with go-kart like performance, one might expect a little middle-aged spread to creep in.
Indeed, the new car measures 4.3 m, or around a metre longer than the 1959 original.
:link: New Countryman is biggest Mini ever launched - 20cm longer and 3cm wider than its immediate predecessor | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-3883226/New-Countryman-biggest-Mini-launched-20cm-longer-3cm-wider-immediate-predecessor.html)