Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This very Cooper S has more even more grunt than a Works S: http://www.mini2.com/gallery/personal/gallery_12957.html To stay on topic, most photos were shot with a Panasonic LC1 + Vario Summicron ASPH. :-) Joseph ---------------------------------------------------------- ///M Power - I don't drive fast, I just fly low :-) on 19/10/04 11:47 pm, animal at s.jessurun95@chello.nl wrote: > Well take a works S for a spin and you,ll find that it is no rover. > best > simon jessurun > amsterdam > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William G. Lamb, III" <lambroving@worldnet.att.net> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:43 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Future R Plan > > >> >> The Mini Cooper is a pirated Rover almost totally >> designed in the R&D Centre at Gaydon, Warwickshire >> with an engine from Diamler Chrysler Brazil! :-) The >> body panels are stamped by Land Rover in Solihull >> and it's built in the old Rover 75 line at Cowley in >> Oxfordshire. >> >> BMW have been taking it to the bank... :-(