« Reply #5 on: 06 April 2021, 13:28 »
That’s an interesting other car. The mention of Darkside makes me assume it’s had a fair bit of hardware added as well as software?
I owned one of the early Ibiza TDI 130’s way back in about 2003/4. I didn’t gel with it mostly due to the very early ones having stupidly high gearing. The later slightly facelifted FR’s were much better with a bit more colour inside too.
Really interesting info on the Mini front there. I’d assumed there would be an imminent BEV JCW hatch (F56) after the release of the Pace Car recently.
It surprised me that the black belt line wasn’t standard on a lot of the more sporty cars after the recent facelift which saw the rest of the blackline kit added as standard. It’s interesting too to see that MINI is going back to marketing vivid colours.
Nice scoop on the 1 and 2 series! Makes a lot of sense in many ways to bring production to the UK and a vote of confidence from BMW. I ran a new 1 series for a while and really rated it in many areas.
Logged
‘23 8R, ‘20 8CS, ‘19 135iX, ‘19 TCR, ‘17 Ed40, ‘17 GTD, ‘15 7R, ‘13 GTI PP, ‘11 GTI, ‘09 GTI, ‘98 Ibiza Cupra, ‘05 GTI, ‘06 Polo GTI, ‘04 GT TDI, ‘05 Fabia vRS, ‘02 GTI T, ‘03 Ibiza TDI 130, ‘01 Leon 180, ‘89 mk2 16v, ‘99 Ibiza TDI, ‘96 VR6, ‘98 Ibiza TDI, ‘92 VR6, ‘88 mk2 8v, ‘92 Polo G40, ‘91 mk2 8v, ‘89 mk2 8v, 205 GTI 1.9, ‘83 mk1 GTI, ‘80 Scirocco GTI, plus some others I’ve forgotten
