UK's Car Magazine has posted a new set of 3rd Gen MINI Spy Shots undergoing hot weather testing in Death Valley. In the test mule is an iDrive type controller. This leads to speculation that the new MINI will have a similar system. Will the knob be the same as BMW's or will it be MINI specific. Yep, we are getting into the minutia now. Anyway....from Car Source - Mini Cooper S (2013) iDrive spied in Death Valley | Secret New Cars | Car Magazine Online
I know the como makes it hard. but it looks like the petrol door is on the right side. I don't like it over there. :nonod:
Good catch Jim. I just wish all makers would put the gas fillers on the same side. That would avoid so many hassles at the gas station. I really hope it looks better with the camo removed..... :fingerscrossed:
Yeah it is confusing, especially when your one car, the MINI, has it on the left, and the Outback has it on the right, you have to pay attention when pulling into the pumps, pulling up to the pumps, wouldn't want anyone pulling into them!
Yep... my wife's Volvo has it on the opposite side as the MINI. I'm usually so confused that I have to look for the arrow every time I pull into a gas station.
I like that big, old fashioned, round, cathode ray tube sticking out the front, in the first photo. Is that some kind of retro entertainment system? Dave
Reminds me a little of a small Nissan Juke from the side.... Please let the camo be disguising goodness.... ...oh and the fuel door is on the opposite side on our BMW.
Has anyone else noticed that the bar above the license plate (that is either chrome or body color) is larger on the F56?
Over here in Yurp, it used to be standard that the fuel filler was on the curb* side of a car, so that it suited the actual roadside fuel pumps that still existed in some places. So as Brits drive on the left side of the road, that meant British cars had the fuel filler on the left side and I assumed BMW stuck with that convention for the Mini. It also presumably helped with the Clubman which still has the club door on the right/driver's side for Britain - there is not a UK-specific model with the club door on the curb side. I guess the F56 is now a thoroughly German car so they've decided to drop the nostalgia bit and put the fuel filler where they're used to it being. *Actually it is on the 'kerb' side of the car in British English, but that's nit-picking....