MotoringFile Does an Automatic JCW Dilute the Brand or Strengthen it?

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  1. Nathan

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    For the first time ever MINI will be offering the six speed Aisin sourced automatic in the JCW. They first showed it in the JCW Countryman but we fully expect it to move across the JCW range to all models in time for the 2013 model year this September. This is essentially the same six [...]

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  2. Dave.0

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    I guess it will help sell some high priced JCW's to people that can't drive stick.

    I hope they don't put an auto tragic in the new GP, that would be a horrible crime.

    If you can't drive stick go learn on a rental car, if you can find a stick rental car.
     
  3. Metalman

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    Ahhh well.... That's one way of dealing with the weak manual clutch bearing.....:rolleyes:
     
  4. KittyMini

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    I actually didn't realize it wasn't offered before! :lol:
    Well, hey, I guess that's cool. I'm not a fan of automatics, especially in MINIs, but that's just me. I also traded an '09 for an '06 so what do I know? :cornut:
     
  5. minimark

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    Folks with bad knees need love too... Auto or stick, bring it on JCW!!!
     
  6. KittyMini

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    Way to go makin' sense and all :biggrin5:
     
  7. jiminni

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    I think it's good :Thumbsup: Hey when I'm tired and like minimark said, my knees are tired, I skip my car and drive the wife's auto MCS. Hey with the paddle shifters, it's actually very responsive and gives that F1 feel :lol:
     
  8. ScottinBend

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    Hard to dilute something that already has the Countryman........:biggrin5:
     
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    Both our MINIs are automatic with paddles. So not much I can add.

    When all you young'ns get tired of shifting, join up. :)

    I would welcome a JCW automatic, it might get me into the 3rd MINI. :Thumbsup:
     
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    Personally it seems all right by me. I know in the future there will be an automagic in my life along with knee replacements. I'm not there yet.
     
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    What he said ^^^^^^
     
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    Amen! I have had three knee surgeries on the clutch side... and am just healing from a shattered left ankle last summer. My MCS is an auto...and it is still fun, and fast.
     
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    Bah, this annoys me I will admit. And I have two bad knees! There are days that I've had to miss work because I couldn't drive, but an automatic won't help any, since I still have to press in the gas pedal... All those years of having fun playing soccer caught up to me when I turned 30, and now I've got 80 year old knees according to the doc. But I still don't plan on getting another automatic for many, many years if I can help it. :)
     
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    You sound like my husband......

    After years of soccer and lacrosse, he's had 3 knee surgeries, one hip and one elbow surgery. He still drives stick and I'm sure plans on it for as long as he can.
    Hell, he was driving his car 3 weeks after his hip surgery this past December and will be at the Dragon with it :Thumbsup:
     
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    That will probably be me after I get my knees altered this summer! :D Your husband sounds like he's turning into the Bionic Man there, ouch at all the surgeries! I've been lucky thus far. Though no Dragon for me until next year. Too many Conventions this year to have the time off for it! #nerd
     
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    He is... and he has to get the other hip operated on still. Poor guy but he's a trooper :Thumbsup:
    Good luck with the knee surgery!
     
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    Ouch! Poor guy, hope it works for him!

    Thanks! :)
     
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    I do not understand the mentality that you have to drive a stick to be a man.....and I've driven manual transmission cars all my life.

    My Clubby is an automatic and I consider it the best of both worlds, when I'm on track I use the shifter, when I'm driving home from the track and tired, I don't have too!

    I think the automatic in the MINI is a wonderful device and I love it!

    I'll be putting up a video later of my track day yesterday, just to show what an "autotragic" as they are wont to put it, is capable of....
     
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    For me it is less that (I for one would not want to be a man! I rather enjoy being a woman most of the time), and more that driving an automatic was so boring for me. We call it steering a car in my house, instead of driving. heh.
     
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    In my case, I just like the feeling of closeness to being the impetus for the gear change and clutch synchronicity. I'm the one making it happen. It's like melding with a fine machine. When it clicks..... it's like music...:D It's got nothing to do with being macho.... It's the connection to a machine..... At least it does it for me.....:D
     

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