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The new Mini project was originally Rover. BMW effectively bought it and finished it off with bits of the 3 series. If I had to speculate, I'd say the Mini pr
by regularfry 9y ago
The new Mini project was originally Rover. BMW effectively bought it and finished it off with bits of the 3 series.
If I had to speculate, I'd say the Mini project was a hail-mary for a company in a deep hole. It might have worked, too, if the timing had been better.
- jacquesm 9y agoPeugeot was in a similar situation a while before that and they 206 saved the company, it really could have worked. But I don't know if their quality control was up to it, BMW seems to have made a big difference there.
- ollie87 9y agoWhich 3-Series bits?
- mschaef 9y agoYou see more explicit sharing these days than then. The Mini Countryman and BMW X1 both share the same platform. (And it's front wheel drive, at that, which is a big shift for BMW.)
- regularfry 9y agoThe body electronics was mostly the same. Many shared parts, and the same buses. That's the bit I worked on, so my knowledge of how much of the rest of the car was carried across is a bit more limited.
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