[pedant]Except none of the Mini’s in the original (or the remake, for that matter) had a Union Jack roof….[/pedant]

Yep, yer right. I’m mixing my drinks with the rally car I think.
And, it’s only a Union Jack if it’s flapping from the Jackstaff of one of HM ships. 🙂

A linguist will be corrupted by the problems faced in teaching the spoken word. And most of her problems will be because her students are from foriegn lands. That’s not our problem. Our language is the world datum, and it should be used correctly. Other languages are older, less adaptable, less descriptive. A prime example being the German method of adding words together. Welsh does that. The English will allow a more correct method to evolve.
English language is made up of words from just about every language on the planet, long may it evolve and rule.

The f104 was the Widow Maker….but only the German ones. Didn’t they try and turn it into a high speed bomber or somesuch?

The Tornado is a Mighty Fin, but the servicemen I know refer to it as Tonka.
The americans call our Harrier T10’s the T birds.

The A350 is already the Nightmare liner.

You have to delete the American spell checkers from the PC’s before basic standards can be improved.
And destroy all Websters Dikshunneries. They are an abomination to the beautiful language.

The Oxford is the only one to refer, and even that boils my guts when they allow certain things to change.
Apparently, a “Ruler” is now an acceptable word to use for a measuring stick.

A “Rule” is a measuring stick, a “Ruler” sits on a throne. Or has mod. status.

So, Deep Stall is a stall+engine starvation.
The Nimrod AEW had a similar thing, the bulbous nose was starving the engines on certain manouvres. Vortex generators were stuck all over the bulb to ensure it held onto the breeze.

Twas the Wolsey Hornet I was thinking of.

A lass I used to work with had a BMW “Thinny” done up like the Italian job. Union flag roof, bull bars, loadsa spotlights. It looked good, but not as good as the real ones.

No contest…..the BMW wins hands down!

I can’t think of a single aspect of the original Mini that is better, unless you say it is cheaper, and a moped is cheaper.

Of course, I’m biased…..I’ve got a Mini…..an original Mini. 😉

If you compare them in the context of the time, then the original was certainly a more radical departure from accepted design, whereas the BMW is entirely conventional.

WHAT!
Starter button on the floor, quarterlight openings with chrome latches, an engine you could dismantle on the kitchen table, interior door handle was a leather strap, better looking.
The new one may be safer, but it’s just another car out of a jelly mould formed in a wind tunnel.
And, as an anecdotal fact, it was the mini that killed off the British motorbike industry, not the jap motorbikes. Once people could afford a car – the Mini – they abandoned two wheels for four.
The new one is a nice car, but BMW just cashed in on the name and created a car that’s about as big as a Mark 1 Golf or similar.
Does anybody remember the other mini from the 60’s, I think it was a Wolsey? About the same size as Izzy’s masterpiece.
Bubblecars. What was the one where the whole front opened. It had no reverse gear…so if you drove it in a garage or agin a wall….you couldn’t get out, LoL.