Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No it hasn,t, the S has about 165 HP the works S about 205. best regards simon jessurun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Yao" <joseph@yao.com> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Future R Plan > 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... :-( > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >