How big is the fuel tank really?

Damn it's like moron seminar.

Off to the twit file you go mate. I await someone that can play at an intelligent level, you arte obviously an amateur.

Bye and have a nice life. NOT.

But his replies will probably be just as ignorant and inaccurate as they are when he tries to participate in threads about the real thing. Not very bright, our top poster with a sig. separator.

Regards, David Betts snipped-for-privacy@minilist.org The Mini Gallery:

Well, I would be rather "unlucky" if I wasn't happy with the new-BMW Mini (is this politically correct, gentlemen?) after just 6 weeks and oh, I feel so proud about having sparked off this pathetic thread between fundamentalists and opend-minded members of this NG.

I would be even luckier if somebody had bothered to answer my initial question: how big is the petrol/gas tank really? Living in a country where petrol is still relatively cheap, it does matter on what size of the border I fill it up! So if somebody ever ran dry and filled it up with 60 litres afterwards, I would love to know about it!

Oh yes, just to make a few contributors a bit angrier: imagine for a second that Morris/British Leyland/Rover had been a normally working, business-minded company in the 60's and 70's, don't you think that the mini would have gone bigger and larger and heavier over the years and decades? Just look at the Volkswagen Golf and compare the first generation and the fifth to see the difference!

And if you really don't want a car to change over the decades, do yourself a favor and get a Morgan!

All the best...

Yves

Well stated Yves. The so called fundamentalist will wither and tire away after a while.

Let's motor.

Do you really? That's interesting. Says a lot about you.

I believe someone did, even though you asked it in the wrong newsgroup. Nice of them, that. (Of course, it is in the handbook anyway.) Oh yes, and of course all fuel gauges are inaccurate, plus there is the extra fuel you can cram into the filler pipe. Once again, the fact that you felt you needed to ask the question says a lot about you.

They did come up with a bigger new-generation Mini. They called in the Mini Metro. It was intended to replace the Mini. It failed to do so because people preferred the original. It went out of production years ago. Nobody is bothering to preserve them or restore them or re-manufacture them. We use them as parts donors for our Minis.

Well, most people who know anything about cars would see that as a bad thing. The sought-after Golf is the Mk1. Actually, VW have made an effort to get back to the original ethos with the latest version. Haven't you noticed that cars usually get worse over the years rather than better? Lardier and less dynamically satisfying. If you haven't, that says a lot about you as well.

In case you haven't noticed, Morgans have evolved steadily over the years. Plenty of changes, but they have never lost the point of the original. When you have got something right, you don't need to change it very much, do you?

Regards, David Betts snipped-for-privacy@minilist.org The Mini Gallery:

If everybody put this Yanky wanker in their kill file, he would just vanish as nobody would receive his pathetic childish posts.

And where would be the fun in that? (I take it you are referring to the original poster and not myself. Very difficult to see the context when you top-post.)

Regards, David Betts snipped-for-privacy@minilist.org The Mini Gallery:

He won't be going in my killfile.

He manages to offer his opinion without resorting to grunts, threats of spam and virii, etc

Motor on and post ALL your Mini questions here.

if your yawning try getting more sleep....

and what would you like to be auctioned on E-Bay?...

BINIS or Minis... because you can have all the BINIS you want.

personaly if I had money to burn on a new hatchback I'd be looking at a Renault Clio Sport or somthing out of Japan.....both cheaper and better performance than the chrysler engined BINI.