The mini is fwd. Once you start adding power you need a LSD to get the power down. It is expensive as f*ck to get like 250 bhp out of that thing.

 

http://www.ustcc.com/stats/rr-2005-b...w-raceway.html

Brian Lock drove the WRX, Vesko Kozarov drove the Mini.

 

Hardly fair, I think the Mini got put out by the Slivic on the first turn before that the mini had qualified in 4th ahead of a bunch of more powerful cars.

 

The WRX was 7 seconds faster per lap, at least going by the best lap times.

 

As I stated this was after it tangled with a Slivic and got busted up.

 

I'm not a fan of the new mini's other than looks. Lost all the flavor. The S weighs in at 2700+ lbs. It looks like a mini, but it's not a mini.

 

here ya go. 1200 posts and 35,000 views on NASIOC; needless to say, there was a lot of commotion about this event:

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=505904

 

ugh i HATE mini cooper soooo much...theyre not as cool as they seem...maybe its just me...i dont like dinky cars...plus my friend has one and he's bias as ALL HELL when it comes to his mini...loved my car when i first got it (01 RS) and now he talks trash about it being a lesbo car and what not all because of the forester being #2 lesbian vehicle....the mini was NEVER cool to me and i will NEVER like it, partially out of spite of my friend but the only brit car ive reallllllly liked would be the Aston Martin DB series

 

It's ok.... No really it is... Let it goo you lesbo!!!

 

Yea that mini was quick, i remember watching that thing thru the s turns, it was quite agile and came out of corners well. Had a good sound too!

 

ohh doug finished 8th not bad

 

lol jerk ... i still dont like mini coopers...seem way to girly to me...im into muscle cars mainly...well mustangs primarily

 

Thought the WRX was faster but my buddy insists his cooper is faster.. It maybe now since he has pulleys,exaust,header,intake bunch of otha stuff but stock to stock.. Seems like a tender subject.. Mini-S with navi is "i believe" way nicer than the wrx interior wise and they are actually roomy for people..

 

from a dig, a wrx will rape a mini, from a roll is a different story, it may be alot harder to come by a victory

 

Roomy? Yeah, I totally disagree there.

Roomy *for their size*, maybe. Roomy for the driver and front seat passenger? Yeah.

Their product literature says that the Mini "can comfortably seat four, 6'4" adults". This is totally wrong. It doesn't seat 6 foot tall adults any better than a Civic coupe. If anything the legroom is barely acceptable.

I tried out this claim at the last SF auto show. There's nothing "comfortable" about me (6'2") sitting in the back of a Mini Cooper.

Interestingly, the unusual Scion xB had by far the most rear seat legroom of anything at the show, including a 7 series BMW and the S-Class Mercedes.

And even more interesting, the Porsche 997 seemed to have the most driver legroom of all the cars