➤ Before starting this article, I want to ask everyone what is the first impression of MINI? Or what are you thinking of MINI models?
Control? British style? performance? Driving fun? lovely? Light extravagant?
These words must be impressed by MINI, these words are also present The characteristics of MINI.
Karting-like manipulation experience, cute interior and classic British appearance, let Mini have got a large number of fan fans.
Don’t look at BMW early acquisition Mini in 1994 and launched a three-generation model, but as a typical representative of the designer “lazy”, the exterior style and the style and Porsche 911 have so far becoming almost no big. change.
This also allows MINI’s every generation of models, all of the initial cute love Classic look.
[123 ] Unique “small” MINI?
[123 ] And now there is now a slightly luxurious quasi-luxury brand positioning, and the mini is positioned in the small car of economically savings.
I don’t know if you still remember the MINI of Mr. Bean, it seems to be more smart in this MINI model.
Yes, because of the world The first idea of MINI at the beginning of the design, it is easy to carry 4 adults and some baggage items with the smallest size.
time dials to 1959 8 On the 26th of the month, on this day, the first MINI offline from the British Motor Company BMC, this car used a leading prior to the present, so that the engine compartment largely narrowed the size and space, reducing the length of the engine.
Because only one 0.85 lift, the maximum horsepower has only 34 hp in order to further reduce the volume of the chassis, the wheel is also small to only 10 inches.
But this configuration is installed on such a small body, but it is not violated And even have a different kind of cute temperament.
There is a size size of this car, how small it is?
The width of this car is only 1.41 meters, the height is 1.35 meters, the length is only 3 meters, so the compact shape makes MINI named noise, and even people use “witchcraft” to describe this car.
With the market’s recognition of Mini, MINI quickly evolved from “home house to buy a vegetable car”
Everyone must have a fashion decoration
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“Yes, MINI became a fashion, a trend. Even today, you will still feel that the girls who open a MINI are very fashionable, and the boys who open a MINI are also tasteful.
Maybe you will be strange, will you like it for boys? To answer this question, this has to mention people who change mini ordered – John Middot; Cooper.
[123 ] Injecting souls for mini?
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1948, John Middot; Cooper and his father Charles Middot; Cooper Cooper Automobile Company Specialized racing design and manufacturing, although the conditions are limited, the car is still favored by the car fans.
Subsequently in 1953, John Middot, 30 years old; Cooper officially entered F1 identity by the manufacturer team.
At the same time, the blood youth, such as Sterling Middot; Mosc, Mike Middot; Huo Soen, etc. Enter the F1 Hall.
At this time, John Middot; Cooper is drunk in the middle of the engine layout, developed The new car T39, thanks to the layout of the central engine, the center of gravity is more reasonable, and the grasp of the four wheels has also been balanced, and the turn is over.
The memory is also the standard structure of the F1 today, but it is not aware of the congenital advantages of such layouts, still insisting on the pre-lap-driven structure.
And they also made the taso of this structure of the Cooper team, thinking that just a head, affirmedCan’t afford to test, don’t say it.
However, Kucker still believes that its judgment, very fast, T40 has also been developed After Braham joined the team, T40 won 1.1 liters of group champion in the 12-hour endurance match in the 1956.
With the efforts of the Cooper and the efforts of their talents and teams together, with the success of the T51 racing, in 1959 and 1960, the Cooper team won the driver and team double championship, cloth Laham has finally ushered in his era.
Unfortunately, with the rise of Bratham, Ferrari The death of Kuroper, let John Middot; Cooper finally sells the team, but he pioneered the hidden engine F1 car, indeed leading a era change. It is precisely because of leaving the F1 game, John Kuper set off a second climax of life.
You didn’t guess the wrong, it was named with his name and used the MINI COOPER to this day.
We mentioned that the initial MINI model is less than 1 liter, only 34 horsepower. Can only act as a role of buying vegetables and daily commuters.
Coincidentally, John Middot, returned to the second line; Copper and the time responsible for MINI The general engineer developed by the model, Eric Middot; Isgnez is a good friend.
What kind of sparks will be encountered in
two like-related engineers touched?
John increased the original engine from 0.85 liters to the displacement of nearly 1 liter, and improved the camshaft and cylinders such that the power of this vehicle increased from 34 horsepower to 55 hp, gearbox and brake system. Enhanced.
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The reinforced Mini has become a strong small steel gun, with a short flexible body and strengthening The subsequent chassis and power, MINI has achieved huge success in the 1960s, and it has also created that MINI is still flowing in the blood
tensile gene
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It is worth mentioning that now MINI’s high-performance version JCW is the English abbreviation of John Cooper Works, which is the legendary figure that is injected into the soul of the soul – John Middot; Cooper’s name .
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[123 The MINI model has been relying on
short flexible
, which is popular in the market, and is because of this characteristic, it also saved its own destiny in the future.
This story has to be said from the 1990s.
BMW has heard heavy debt after acquiring Roffu car at the time. Under negiring, BMW will soon sell it to Ford Motor.
However, the BMW has left MINI brand, and the interpretation given by BMW is that MINI brand has a very exaggerated consumer range.
Going to the elderly to the childThe child, whether it is a waist wandering a boss or a low-level class in the society, or a girl, there is a good and favored MINI.
, especially the European market consistently the world of small cars, unique MINI It is an unable to replace in the BMW truck, even in front of the competitors, it has accounted for enough advantages.
So, after the redemption of BMW, the new MINI has been in 2001, and three models were fixed: MINI One, Mini Cooper and Mini Cooper S.
However, with the evolution of the new generation of MINI, the increasingly large car body has made MINI a bit of a middle-aged blessing, becomes greasy.
The earliest mini bus length is only 3 meters, let’s take a look at these years How much is MINI?
We take three MINI COOPER models, in 2004, Mini Cooper’s body size has come to 3635 * 1688 * 1415 mm, and the wheelbase reached 2467 mm.
When replaced by 2007, the busleman had reached 3699 mm. In 2012, it took only 3.7 meters, and it came to 3832 mm in 2014, and the wheelbase also increased to 1450 mm.
If you look at the five-door version and the extended version, and that greasy is unable to The acceptable fat version of SUV Countryman, which is more unbearable than before.
But this is no wonder that now has a large number of seniors in the model, all have different degrees of growth, after all, forced the market environment, no increase in body, and it is likely to eat.
BMW is very clear as one of the most successful car companies in the world.
So, the “blessing” of the MINI car is inevitably, after all, the market is the only standard for inspection truth, MINI has always been a small brand to live today.
[123 ] I am going to return to myself?
[123 ] But to tell the truth, MINI has not been good in the past few years. In 2019, the global sales of MINI were approximately 346,600, down 4.1 percentage.
The impact of the epidemic last year, MINI only sold approximately 292,400 vehicles, down 15.8 percentage year-on-year.
This generation MINI has already come to the end of the life cycle, and competitiveness has begun to reduce, or freshness begins to decrease.
and according to the average seven-year replacement cycle of MINI, it has been replaced time, so In contrast, it seems imminent.
However, because of the influence of the epidemic and market environment, this replacement of MINI was helpless.
At the same time, the sudden outbreak of the increasingly stringent emission standards and new energy sectors also made the traditional mainfactors can’t work hard, and BMW had to pay attention to the development of new energy models.
From MINI’s pure electric version MINI ELECTRIC, it can be seen that the new era has arrived last year.
Adding some of the British Delax, so that BMW is still temporarily stopped for MINI Footsteps.
It seems that MINI seems to be unlucky, and it means a little hero?
The rut to announce that this will be excited as a MINI car fan.
Summary, Mini’s internal person said that Mini has realized that MINI’s model is being The more you change, this also makes MINI are losing their own tradition.
Today, the MINI model is in replacement, so it is very cautious about the size of MINI body size and proportion of MINI.
Previously MINI president Bernard Middle; BB has revealed that the new generation of MINI three-game version will usher in the maximum change after the purchase of BMW in 2001, the body size will shrink, probably released in 2023.
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Bernede MIDDOT; Kobo emphasized that the three-door version of Mini’s meaning is like 911 for Porsche, the classic design and initial philosophy Will not change.
I don’t know if you are MINI fans in front of the screen. Anyway, the ruthen will be touched when seeing this news.
It is worth mentioning that last year, although the sales volume of the MINI model fell, the high performance version of the JCW is still sold.20,565 vehicles.
In other words, the hot selling of the JCW model may be the cause of MINI to decide one of the reasons why the model size is reduced.
But no matter how, in many models, it can exchange good markets. In the case of, MINI can be against the wind, it is indeed a thumbs up to the numerous fans.
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With the end of the British car, the British car companies that have been chalcoited have been
, and most of the operations are bleak, except for McLaren’s update, other car companies are almost They are facing dying struggles.
MINI is also a constant exploration and trying to leave those love MINI driving fun and unique Fans and consumers of appearance.
Serious thinking about it, is the body to increase how to exchange sales? Or return to the original look to break through?
This is a clear problem in other cars, but in front of MINI is a problem that is difficult.
In some cases, there is no such thing as the interests and money. Maybe in the heart of MINI, just a tribute to the seniors.
Falling leaves, everything goes back to the initial look, only this is, but it is worth youMoving.
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