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  • The MINI Cooper goes electric

    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 period, MINI has agreed to pick up the cost of recharging the car. The numbers are ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by RussMcBee on October 21, 2008
  • Nigel prefers Michelin over Goodyear

    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 not run-flats. They ended up costing less than half what the run-flats would have cost ($183 ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by Russ McBee on May 8, 2007
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