The new MINI Countryman

The MINI Countryman will go on sale in South Africa in the fourth quarter of 2010.  This is the first MINI to come with four doors and a large tailgate as well as a versatile interior offering space for up to five people. Which begs the question, what’s the point of a MINI then? It seems that the MINI has just become a name for marketers to push. This MINI derivative is classified as a cross over from the normal MINI and a  ‘Sports Activity Vehicle’ (Definition: an ugly car that has limited space inside compared to normal SUV’s and bad driving characteristics when compared to normal road going saloons).

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3,500 BHP Mini

Visitors to this week’s Goodwood Festival of Speed will have some amazing machinery on which to feast their eyes but none more unusual than the exhibit which greets them on the stand of Cummins, the world’s largest independent maker of diesel engines.

The Cummins centrepiece emerged after a previous show when the company showed off its largest engine (and the largest diesel engine made in the UK). The QSK78 engine weighs in at over 11 tonnes and some wag asked if it could be fitted to his Mini.
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