13 Jul
2011
13 Jul
'11
2:45 p.m.
On 13/07/2011 21:14, Gene Buckle wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
> Ah no, that;s the 'new' Mini. And if you
think that's areal mini, you
> probably also think the the HP Officecalcs are real HP calculators....
>
> The real mini, which first appeared in 1959 IIRC, is a somewhat smaller
> car.
The "real" car is called the Cooper Mini.
The "fake" car is called the
Mini Cooper. :) (I _think_)
Er, no. The original vehicle is called a Mini. There were two brands,
Morris Mini and Austin Mini, though that's just an accident of British
industrial history, as they were made by a conglomerate that had bought
both brand names (if you want to know, look up "British Leyland" and
"BMC").
Then came the souped-up versions. Cooper is/was a company that made
racing cars and engines (for Formula 3 and Formula 1, for example).
They also designed engine upgrades for lesser vehicles, and the Minis
with Cooper-modified engines were called Mini Coopers. The
extra-special sports version of that was the Mini Cooper S.
The modern ones are called also called Mini Coopers, but only because it
sounds sexier.
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