3rd Gen F56 Cooper S Most liked posts in thread: My thoughts on the F56

Dang! I guess you'll never read this then. I'm just checking in on your progress with the new intercooler for those nasty F56's. Not that I'd ever own one... no, wait...... never mind. I forgot I traded my R56 for one of those new wunderkars.

 

Here to please...

BTW... I really like your gray that's offered on the F56...Very nice

 

Ah yes. It does take a certain mindset to grasp the friendly, yet irreverent, fun that we offer here on M/A.

 

Harley's suck ??

 

Coolest F56 yet

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Awesome.

 

OH! the seats are amazing. I'd love to swap mine out for the new ones. But thats all I'd take from the F56.

 

The turbo spool is pretty audible on the F56, honestly. Moreso than the R56.

 

Heh, that's funny.

 

:lol:

No, having driven both with the windows down, the part-throttle turbo spool and recirc noises are louder in the newer cars.

 

Yes drive one & give us your thoughts.

 

That's true, and BMW survived the Bangle years where people separated into camps questioning each other's chromosomal stability and ancestry; it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out, but I think who buys these newer cars as a group is significantly different from who bought gen 1 and gen 2, I think many (not all, but many) of those people have been lost. Which is a shame, it would have been cool if the hardcore enthusiasts stayed on board like what happens with many iconic cars.

Personally, I think the MINI brand will be fine. Not sure about the MINI hardtop, as I think it may become more of an afterthought, and production will probably decline, but the brand as a whole will probably remain profitable.

What I'd love to see are those numbers again of sales broken down by car model by country.

 

Let us see what my Google-Fu can uncover...

For starters

MINI sales worldwide by month

 

What I would like to see is a breakdown by model--someone posted this earlier, probably you--where it broke down the countryman, hardtop, etc. But it was for the U.S. I'm interested in what that breakdown looks like in other countries, for s&g's. I'm not even sure each model is sold in every country, but knowing what the percentages are in Europe for example would be interesting.

 

This is a chart of European Sales.

Mini Cooper European sales figures

 

Lol I googled that earlier and missed the breakdown at the bottom of the page, I just looked at the chart and figured it wasn't there.

But the countryman numbers aren't there.

August U.S. sales show the two door hardtop leading sales, followed by the countryman and 4 door hard top.

MINI USA August Year-on-Year Sales Up 2.1% - MotoringFile

It's just one month, but maybe the two door hardtop is safer than I thought. I'm more an interested observer at this point, since I've made my permanent bed with the R53, but I'll continue to watch the numbers.

 

Not all of the numbers are necessarily available, just like Amazon doesn't release sales numbers of Kindles. You can deduce what you can from what they announce in press releases.

Here's UK sales in 2014: https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/united-kingdom/pressDetail.html?title=bmw-group-uk-reports-record-sales-in-2014&outputChannelId=8&id=T0199644EN_GB&left_menu_item=node__804

Out of 53,661 sold, 28,000 were the 3 and 5 door hatch. The Countryman would make up most of the rest.

 

It's just ugly. Case closed.

The people buying today's MINI would not have bought yesterday's MINI. IMO.

 

ABS is required by law on all new cars sold in the US and Europe. Did the wheels lock up?

 

After finally driving one last month I have to say I like the engine and the seats the best. No it doesn't have the edginess of my R53. But not much does.
It's quieter and more refined. A bit more like my wife's Focus ST or a GTi. Only more tippy.
It does feel a bit larger. Than gen 1 and 2 but not as big as a Speed 3.

But I can't stand the face. I'm sure some one is working on a replacement bumper cover.