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The MINI Cooper goes electric

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:17 PM
Today, BMW announced a pilot program in which 500 purely electric MINI's will be sold in California, New York, and New Jersey over the coming months. This "field trial" of the MINI E will allow 500 customers to lease the car for one year; during the trial
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Would you buy a Chinese car?

Friday, July 06, 2007 9:05 PM
Oh my Lord. Chrysler plans to start importing Chinese cars into the US : Chrysler Group signed a deal Wednesday with China’s biggest automaker, Chery, to launch a low-cost production venture that could export the first Chinese-made cars to the United
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Nigel prefers Michelin over Goodyear

Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:28 PM
In this post , I said I was going to buy some new tires for Nigel today. I did. The car originally shipped from the factory with Goodyear Eagle RSA 205/45 R17 M+S, which is a run-flat tire. The new tires are Michelin Pilot Preceda 205/45 R17, and they're
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Run-flat tars is expensive!

Monday, May 07, 2007 10:20 PM
Nigel ( my car ) was born with run-flat tires -- Goodyear RSA 205/45 R17 M+S, to be exact. Run-flats are a good thing on a MINI Cooper S, since the car has absolutely nowhere to hide a spare tire. The car requires either run-flat tires or a AAA membership,
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