New Chinese MG has slanty wheels

[Twister_Ken]

 

[Danny_Labrador]

I thought that a consortium in the UK had the right this this model and were planning to produce it later this year? should make interesting marketing.

 

[halcyon]

There is talk of assembling kits from China, at Longbridge.

How the mighty have fallen.

Brian

 

[Rum_Pirate]

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I thought that a consortium in the UK had the right this this model

[/ QUOTE ] Who has the rights to manufacture the Mini Moke and to the name???

 

[BrendanS]

BMW Mini have plans to release a new mini moke in about 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Moke

One of my top favourite cars that I've owned. Had one in the 80's and it was wonderful fun. Brilliant in towns, as very low weight meant great acceleration, and all round visibility, meant you could weave in and out of traffic. Superb when the sun was out. One very hot evening, headed to a country pub, a Rolls Royce driver waved us down, and asked if he could swap! <g>

 

[B175Chris]

You see lots of them about in the SoF, presumably because they dont get too hot, there's one by us which has been there for years, more and more battered each time but seems to be the Toyota Hilux of the Mini range /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[halcyon]

Do you remember the original 4 wheel drive Mini Moke ?

Brian

 

[BrendanS]

You mean the one with 2 engines that used to tear itself apart, as it they never did manage to quite sycronise them?

 

[halcyon]

It worked in snow !!
Though there should be no need to syncronise them, just one will do more work than the other, i.e., double heading on the railway. They may have been light weight, they were intended for airborn army use?, so they always looked a little weak in the centre section.

Brian

 

[BrendanS]

One engine drove front wheels. tother engine drove back wheels, so if unsychronised, the front and back axles were at different speeds, which caused huge problems, which is why they dumped them. With modern electronically controlled engines, it wouldn't have been a problem (engine in my car is basically two engines bolted together, with clever Bosch electronics making both run synchronised)

 

[burgundyben]

Were MG really ever 'mighty'?

Built lots of cars for the average man in slacks, but the expression 'how the mighty have fallen' implies some level of greatness.

 

[chas]

MGs? - Topless Marinas.

TR Owner /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Birdseye]

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MGs? - Topless Marinas.

TR Owner /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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TR's - topless Dolomites

And whilst the engine of the Marina was old, it did at least work rather than warp. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif