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Old 01-10-2006, 02:34 PM   #96
Jake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironhorse
"...the Cooper exudes such an immense sense of stability that you can go into a corner at a much higher speed, toss it around, and the car steadily tracks the road with confidence. Our slalom test revealed that the Mini can thread through the cones with moderate understeer and keep a blistering average speed of 67.6 mph, besting any current BMW, any Ferrari, and most Porsches." - Road & Track, February 2002

And this test was a Mini Cooper, not a Mini Cooper S.
The writer said its slalom time bested all of those cars and as Lanny/Ironhorse have already suggested, basing a cars handling on slalom times is not accurate.
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