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+1 к Дашке - иногда, если хочешь что то спрятать, положи это прмо под нос.

Блин, что же в Питере так малышей таскают. Сочувствую!

Рады сообщить, что 10 декабря пройдет последний финальный MOSCOW MINI QUEST IV сезона 2011 года, организованный телеканалом Global Star TV!!! ЭТО ЭЛЕМЕНТАРНО, ВАТСОН!!! В этот раз главным действующим лицом будет легендарный Шерлок Холмс. Вам придется проявить чудеса смекалки, недюжинную эрудицию и, естественно, воспользоваться знаменитым дедуктивным методом!!! Участники игры должны успеть за отведенное на игру время разгадать закодированные головоломки с местонахождением чек-поинтов и проехать все контрольные точки. В каждой из них Вам требуется выполнить несложное веселое задание, заработать баллы и, по возможности, получить бонусные баллы за досрочный финиш. MOSCOW MINI QUEST IV - последняя финальная игра сезона 2011 года! На старт выходят 100 самых закаленных в боях, прошедшие огонь и воду, саамы веселые и решительные MINIпиплы! Первоначальная регистрация экипажей проводится на форуме клуба MINIpeople.ru, www.minipeople.ru, раздел "MINIpeople-Москва - Тусуемся Москва - MOSCOW MINI QUEST IV 10/12/11. FINAL" Взнос с каждого экипажа - 1000 рублей. Старт квеста: ресторан BlackBerry Café, ул. Академика Сахарова, 10. Сбор гостей и регистрация экипажей с 14:00 до 15:30. Инструктаж экипажей – в 15:50. Старт MOSCOW MINI QUEST IV - в 16:00. Финиш и награждение победителей в «Букмекерс Паб» на Новом Арбате (бывш. казино «Корона») - в 20:00. Вас ждет веселая новогодняя шоу-программа, а самых стойких и азартных – конкурс красавиц!!! Ставки принимаются без ограничений!!! На Финише подведем итог годового чемпиона клуба MINIpeople.ru !!! Лучшие из лучших по итогам четырех MOSCOW MINI QUEST 2011 станут обладателями сертификата на круиз от компании VIP CRUISE, туроператора морских и океанских круизов! Приглашаем к игре всех MINIпиплов, всех владельцев автомобилей марки MINI ! Специальные призы от компании MINI ! Специальный приз от компании ABTODOM ! Уникальную линейку напитков представит партнер проекта MOSCOW MINI QUEST 2011 – компания АБРАУ-ДЮРСО! Традиционно телеканал Global Star TV будет снимать телепрограммы, посвященные MOSCOW MINI QUEST, где вы сможете увидеть себя, своих друзей и, конечно же, свои любимые машинки в самые веселые моменты квеста! Смотрите! Прямой эфир и подробная информация на сайте www.globalstar.tv Обязательное условие MOSCOW MINI QUEST IV 10/12/11: - к игре допускаются только автомобили марки MINI любой модели и года выпуска! - в экипаже обязательно должны быть пилот и штурман! - вам потребуется: карта Москвы, GPS-навигатор, фонарик, хорошее настроение, по старой доброй привычке – полотенце, а также позитивный настрой и командный дух! Игра проводится в городских условиях с соблюдением всех правил дорожного движения! MINI QUEST - ЭТО НЕ ГОНКА! MINI QUEST - ЭТО ИГРА! По всем вопросам обращаться на горячую линию MOSCOW MINI QUEST +7 919 7667424

If you’re looking for a great view of the new MINI Coupé in action, look no further than this new video from MINI. No new info, just some terrific eye candy. Enjoy.<br/><br/>(visit MotoringFile for the full article)</img><br/></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> Читать дальше

For the second year in a row, MINI has been ranked #1 in customer satisfaction for mass market brands. Sharing the #1 spot with Lexus in the luxury brand category. This isn’t about satisfaction with the cars themselves, but rather peoples’ satisfaction with the purchase experience at the dealership. MINI ranks highest among mass market...<br/><br/>(visit MotoringFile for the full article)</img><br/></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> Читать дальше

Ребята, ищите место с интернетом. У нас тоже будет 17 числа новый год в москве. Можно будет устроить телемост по скайпу!!!

Красавчики!

Ever since BMW made the switch to run flats, enthusiasts have been waiting patiently for the technology to mature. And with BMW’s move of course came MINI’s reliance on run flat technology as well. This is especially true in the US where they’re not an option (as they are in there markets) but standard on [...]<br/><br/>(visit MotoringFile for the full article)</img><br/></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> Читать дальше

MINI USA reported sales of 4,750 automobiles in November, up an astonishing 70.5% from the 2,786 sold in November 2010. Year-to-date, MINI sales in the U.S. are up 25.4% on volume of 51,800 compared to 41,324 in the first eleven months of 2010. (Full sales chart after the break) “The results are exciting because it [...]<br/><br/>(visit MotoringFile for the full article)</img><br/></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> Читать дальше

The fine chaps over at the Axis of Oversteer have compiled highlights from the Monza Rally Show. I love their description of the event: Every year the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza gets turned into a...<br/><br/>(visit MotorongFile for the full article)</img><br/></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> Читать дальше

MINI Getaway is one part tag, one part FourSquare. Last year MINI turned a large area of Stockholm into a playing field where players could win a MINI Countryman. This year it’s Tokyo and the...<br/><br/>(visit MotorongFile for the full article)</img><br/></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> Читать дальше

Прикольно! Поздравляю.

Друзья, у нас хорошая новость. Мы закупили специальное оборудование и обучили специального человека технике удаления вмятин без рихтовки и, соответственно, без покраски. Далеко не все вмятины можно исправить таким образом, поэтому приезжайте на консультацию (бесплатную).

Наклеечки уже заказаны и будут через пару недель.

Аугис, дружище, поздравляем тебя!!! Счастья и здоровья тебе и твоей семье!

There is something elementally fun about mud. Rally drives and off-roaders have known about it for years. But few of us have ever had a chance to some go all out down muddy trails. Recently I had an opportunity to take the MF Countryman long-term tester out to the muddy trails and dirt roads of rural Indiana. The goal was to test the All4 system. But somehow I ended up with me, an hour later, drifting around muddy corners steering the R60 with the throttle. We’ve told you about the control the All4 system gives the Countryman. However in the dirt and mud, control leads to a car that feels surprisingly neutral and balanced. The reason starts with All4 itself. The system control unit is fully integrated into the DSC unit and thus transfers data much faster than a typical system. In the real world (in the mud and snow) this allows the system to react to changing traction much faster. This is what gives it the seamless, balanced feel. It’s also what allowed me to concentrate on the car control rather than worrying about putting the power down. All4 engages a small clutch in the front detecting wheel slip when engaging the rear driveshaft. Unlike BMW’s xDrive, it’s a simple (but very effective) system that doesn’t use complex electronics. It’s not quite the center differential locking system in a car like the WRX STI, but it is a simple, lightweight system that works quickly and effectively in sending up to 50% of the available power to the rear wheels. Whether it’s mud or snow, the Countryman All4 does away with MINI’s typical understeering characteristics and gives the driver the ability to steer with the wheel and the throttle. The results are pure joy. </img><br/></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> Читать дальше

Всем привет. Прямо сейчас на Клубном Сервисе появилось одно приглашение на 2 лица презентацию Jaguar XKR-S. Информация о мероприятии www.jaguarxkr-s.ru Если у кого есть желание, звоните на +7905 737 6666, резервируйте и забирайте. Спасибо AnKo

Поздравляем нашего 100ого клиента Яну (Yahoo). В течении всего этого и следующего года, Яна будет мыть машину на Сервисе бесплатно.

Back in September during the MINI Coupé press launch in Nashville, I got to drive several Coupés with a variety of specs. There were JCW cars, regular Cooper S Coupés and a variety of colors to choose from. What each car had in common, however, was MINI Connected w/Nav, and a MINI-supplied iPhone with a pre-release version of the MOG app installed. While I wasn’t previously aware of MOG’s on-demand music service, its main rival, Spotify, had just launched in the US a few weeks earlier. So I was at least familiar with the concept. Additionally, this was my first real chance to use MINI Connected for an extended period of time, so I didn’t have any pre-conceived bias as to how it should or shouldn’t work. While they weren’t on my radar, MOG actually started in 2005 and had an iPhone app before they partnered with MINI to integrate into MINI Connected. Additionally, MOG is one of the first 3rd party apps to come to MINI Connected since its debut last year. Like the Pandora app, this new version of the MOG app relies on the iPhone for data connectivity, but allows listeners to access the app’s functions without having to fiddle with their iPhone. Now I’m not going to get into how MOG compares to Spotify, or Apple’s iCloud, or any of the myriad other ways you can you can get your tunes through your mobile phone. What I’m going to focus on instead is what it was like to use MOG as integrated into MINI Connected. Basically, it was extremely easy. With the MINI-provided iPhone plugged in, using MOG was just like using any of the other audio sources already available through the MINI Connected interface. Once connected, MOG appeared on the screen as a source like satellite radio, CD or music stored on my iPhone. Since I was in Nashville, it only seemed appropriate to play some Johnny Cash as I got to know the Coupé. Because MOG uses the MINI Connected interface, I was able to use the text selection wheel to search for Cash, then choose an album. Ring of Fire, obviously. Playback started within two to three seconds — about as long as it takes a CD to find a track and start playing. (For those who don’t know what a CD is, ask your parents.) Music quality was good, especially mated to the H/K speakers. Even though I was driving in areas both rural and urban, I never experienced any buffering pauses or skips in playback on the Verizon iPhone they’d included in the car. I listened to the whole album, and this included a few stops. MOG paused and resumed what I was listening to without being asked. My only quibble with the experience was that once I got to the end of the album, the app simply replayed the last track over and over. While not a bug (I don’t think) it seemed like a strange choice. Still, it’s a minor thing and the current app may behave differently. Oddly, it was my own iPhone that actually informed my experience with MOG most of all. I had some specific music of my own I wanted to listen to (music I looked for first on MOG but didn’t find), so I unplugged the MINI-supplied Verizon iPhone and plugged in my own. Accessing the music I wanted on my own device was exactly the same experience as finding and listening to music on MOG. That’s where it clicked. By integrating into MINI Connected, MOG has put the cloud in your car stereo and there are no extra hoops to jump through. There’s nothing to fiddle with. Just log into the iPhone app, plug in, and off you go. Easy. I like easy. So if you’re one who likes a music-on-demand service such as Spotify or MOG, and you spend a lot of time in your MINI, the MOG app for MINI Connected might be just what you’re looking for. More than anything, my experience with the app simply reinforced our opinion here at MotoringFile that MINI’s future-proofing strategy with MINI Connected is bang on. With the platform now open to third party apps, the best is yet to come. Meanwhile, MOG is another high quality arrow in the MINI Connected quiver. </img><br/></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> Читать дальше

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Дорогие друзья, многие из вас знают про или уже участвуют в акции MINI-ликбез. Суть экшена в том, что вы помогаете "диким" владельцам MINI узнать про Клубный Сервис. Тем самым вы помогаете и нам, Клубному Сервису, привлекая новых людей. Для участия нужно взять на Сервисе или на завтраке (когда они там есть) дырявую карточку с пипликом с подбитым глазом и резинку. На карточке нужно написать свой ник и далее вешать карточку на водительскую дверную ручку. Когда новоиспечённый пипл приезжает на сервис с Вашей карточкой, вы получаете бал в копилку. Спасибо всем кто уже принял участие. Призываем остальных вливаться. На сегодняшний день у нас 2 лидера: mariarti и Vikkionly. Конкурс продлевается до 17 декабря. Награждение пройдёт на специальном Клубном мероприятии. Маленькие призы и сувениры получат все, чьи карточки появятся на Сервисе.

Если про въезд на территорию для сдачи или получения авто, то не проблема.

Ребята, есть у кого ещё хорошие фотки?

MINI Motorsports News caught up with MINI WRC driver Kris Meeke and co-driver Paul Nagle about their outlook for the 2012 season. With two podium finishes, it’s been a very strong first season back in rally racing. As the team prepares for next year’s races, MINI fans are as hopeful as Kris and Paul appear to be. Full interview after the jump. Can you believe that your maiden WRC season is already over? Kris: We did not start until Rally Sardinia in May and had another two-month gap before Finland, so we had to be a bit patient at the beginning. Of course, a driver wants to compete in all rallies. In the final part of the season, our pace was getting better and better. Dani had two podium finishes, you won the power stage in Spain and almost finished 3rd at the Rally GB, so you must be satisfied with the way the season progressed. Kris: It was a good season. I don’t think anybody expected us to get such good results. Dani’s podiums on tarmac, in particular, were definitely ahead of where we thought we would be this season. As for Paul and myself, coming back from 11th overall to battle for third place up to the very last stage at the Rally GB was also great. So hopefully we can battle for more podiums in the future. From the start it was a learning year for the MINI WRC Team, but also for the two of you, as you basically had to write your pace notes from scratch at almost every rally. As there are 13 rallies scheduled for 2012, there is more work to be done. Paul: Yes, it will be mid-season next year before we return the rallies we contested this year. We have been to Monte Carlo, which will be the opening rally of the 2012 season, and have also visited a couple of other rallies this season where we already gathered some recce information. However, many rallies will be new territory for us again next year. At the same time, driving many rallies on brand-new pace notes never prevented you from being fast this year either. Kris: Well, some of the stages were new to everybody else too. We were a bit further down on some of the stages in Finland and Germany that had been used many times before, but with the results that we got this season in general I don’t think we could have asked for much more. What were the highs and lows of the season? Kris: Winning the power stage in Spain was definitely a high for us. The low was certainly France, when we crashed at a point when we were probably going for a podium finish. This was disappointing. But we certainly learned from that rally, bounced back from it and ended the season with two good finishes. You said that you bounced back from the setback in France. Actually, it seemed as if you were starting with a whole new, more relaxed approach to the rallies. Kris: Generally speaking we wanted to approach every rally in the same way and learn from it. But in France we were running inside the top five before we crashed out. So we learned from that too. In Spain we did not have the pressure on our shoulders anymore and were able to enjoy the rally a bit more, which worked very well for us. Is that also going to be the way you approach things next season? Kris: Rally Monte Carlo and Rally Sweden are going to be very difficult and it is easy to make mistakes there. Then it is Mexico, which is all new to us. So yes, we will be taking a similar approach to the start of next season. Now it is the off-season. What are you going to be working on? Kris: For the next four or five weeks we will be working on getting ready for Monte Carlo. Plus, right after Christmas, we will do another test. Then it is a case of getting the recce preparations ready, discussing things with Dani and Carlos and the rest of the team. It is also important to stay in shape because after Monte Carlo the rallies come one after the other. So we have quite a bit of work to do. Paul, communication is so important during the rallies. Anything you are looking to work on here? Paul: No, we are setup and ready to run. The communication in the car works perfectly, the team is doing a great job on the radio and we have the latest technology on the intercom. So this is all fine. So what do you personally expect from next season? Kris: We are looking forward to putting everything in place to have a successful season. We will develop the car a bit more. We will gain some more experience. So I hope we can be challenging for a top place on the podium. But it is not going to be easy to do that at world championship level. I think we need to get back to the rallies we know from this year, where we were already strong, and to get top results there. To do this, however, we must first get all the bits and pieces in the right place. Speaking of the MINI John Cooper Works WRC, was the initial positive impressions of the car that you got from all the preseason test drives confirmed by its performance during the rallies? Kris: With the MINI WRC it was also a learning season for us. And you only know how good you are when you put yourself up against the opposition. This is the only thing that counts. We had minor technical issues this year, but the team very quickly got on top of this. During the final three rallies both cars proved to be very reliable and fast. If we push our overall performance a bit more, we will have another successful season. </img><br/></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> Читать дальше