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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The broad boulevards, endless roads, garages and three United States is not what might be called the main area for small city cars. Sure, there are large companies in Europe, the hatchery that this sport car Peeps born of the major car manufacturers (including Mercedes-Benz and Audi) is looking for a piece of the action. But without the necessary space for the development of the player, few Americans are willing to share with the result of compromises. Previous efforts largely failed to stop Americans from small-is-cheap thinking. And cars like the bizarre, but without the joy of the Smart Fortwo, and soon the Scion iQ, the study's external borders of the American humor.
BMW Mini power makes the U.S. more breathtaking. Reborn Mini Cooper landed in 2002 with the spirit of driving personality (especially the supercharged S model), affordable prices, began in the mid-teens, and the appearance of strength, hard on the original 1957 model of the BMC Mini Styling refused. It was ultra modern small car for the driver of both sexes, and its success was no mean automakers unnoticed.
On the side of the Germans, the Fiat 500 in 2007 and reissued. Nuova was larger and, like the Mini, was dressed in leather retro, that for the materials' fashionable Italian style. " Press has no means of production in North America, Fiat can not finesse the business model profitable in the U.S. 500th But Fiat drew 20 percent of Chrysler Corporation, which is under Chapter 11 Problems and part ownership of Chrysler Fiat access to Toluca, Mexico, plant. Hi, U.S. bound Fiats.
The current, second generation Mini Cooper is a kind of automotive equivalent of a boxer / politics Manny Pacquiao. This may be the size of the class struggle in the up or down. You can thrill to slip into the sport, and many go-fast appearance and accessories, or used as an ordinary freighter. We are punching below the belt, how to enter the ring with his Italian opponent.
Pop, Sport and Lounge: Cinque Centos in three flavors. $ 18,000 Sport car is equipped with a stiffer suspension and sports seats (plus other cosmetic bits), making it the most natural competitor to the Mini. Our Yellow Highlighter Luke came up with automatic climate control, the cost of every penny of its modest $ 150 and $ 850 sunroof, is that our driver will pay more for non-equipped.
Base-level Coopers, starting as a raw material equivalent to 500 on the Sport model $ 20,100 or $ 2,100 more than the Fiat. Cream test car struggled were randomly applied with labels called, beautiful, warts. Of the $ 3,500 in options, we could not $ 250 and $ 1500 sticker price of the package (an iPod connection and a set of body) to do, but you should $ 1,000 Sport package and the $ 250 armrest. We can go in both directions for $ 500 adaptive xenon headlights.
