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Old 02-04-2008, 01:16 PM
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Isetta..coming soon
Now here is a forthcoming and a very strong competitor for Fiat 500. BMW can make a new brand for the new car, thus it will be called not BMW Isetta, as before, but simply Isetta. Baby-car is planned to be not more than 3750mm long and to use turbocharged (!) gasoline and diesel engines.
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Old 02-04-2008, 02:41 PM
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That looks so damned cool, but surely it defeats the whole point of the MINI?
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Old 02-04-2008, 03:05 PM
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That looks so damned cool, but surely it defeats the whole point of the MINI?
With the 120g/km CO2 limit, no it doesn't.

If only it wasn't retro...
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Old 02-04-2008, 03:28 PM
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great engineering/designing/marketing challenge. should be really interesting, only if it's really true. i wanna front door!
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It'd be a good concept if it weren't retro
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Old 02-04-2008, 04:23 PM
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Deft & clever retro-iconography which looks good imo
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With the 120g/km CO2 limit, no it doesn't.
What does this limit entail and apply to?
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I think its a great idea. BMW taking on Smart.
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With the 120g/km CO2 limit, no it doesn't.

If only it wasn't retro...
Our new Mini Cooper D is well under that 120g/km "limit" already...
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What does this limit entail and apply to?
IIRC the EU wants to impose a limit on car manufacturers on the average pollution of their cars (similar to CAFE). So this will help BMW to make up for the M3s, M5s and 7ers.
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Our new Mini Cooper D is well under that 120g/km "limit" already...
Even the 118d is slitghly below...

Even if in real life it quite isn't.
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Even the 118d is slitghly below...

Even if in real life it quite isn't.
And so it is. My C4 would be bang on 120g/km if it had the EGS gearbox, but the 5-speed manual makes it 128.

What I meant by my post was that BMW already make "low CO2" cars, and although they have to achieve an average, I think slotting-in another model below the Mini could be a mistake.
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And so it is. My C4 would be bang on 120g/km if it had the EGS gearbox, but the 5-speed manual makes it 128.

What I meant by my post was that BMW already make "low CO2" cars, and although they have to achieve an average, I think slotting-in another model below the Mini could be a mistake.
It's BMW. It would probably sell lake hot cakes, not matter how it looks or what it is.
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great engineering/designing/marketing challenge. should be really interesting, only if it's really true. i wanna front door!
No front door = fail
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