Plugging Mini E

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It’s BMW’s time to lease the Americans an electric car and tease the rest of the civilised world who, for some reason, never get to drive this kind of vehicles. I’m thinking here, of course, about GM’s EV-1. Needless to say that I wish Mini E all the best and not to follow his predecessor’s fate.

There will be 500 of them. The owners will be able to recharge them using any ordinary socket, but Mini will provide a wallbox which will guarantee full charging times of nearly two and a half hours. In case you missed it, the cars are fully electrical so there will be zero emissions. We’ll have to wait for one year to see if it’s just a marketing move or the electric Mini will eventually make it for real, so to speak, considering where it will be used.

BMW X5 - not just the looks of a Bulldog.

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This X5 Security here is the kind of car you would like to be caught in during the Apocalypse. Not because it would actually save you, but because it will make you think it will and thus you will die happy, and frankly that’s all that matters.

It’s an armoured X5 which can stop bullets from virtually all handguns, even .44 Magnums. It’s got a 4.8 litre V8 which develops 351bhp and enough torque to pull this monster from standstill to 62mph in 7.5 seconds and on to an electronically limited top speed of 130mph.

The CO2 emissions are not stated, mainly because not even all that armour would prove enough to save you from the hands of the ecologists. But who cares - come Apocalypse and you’ll die happy and they won’t.

The return of the Bangle-butt the First

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Oooh, it’s the new BMW 7 Series… Should I dare look?

Hmm, well it’s kinda slim and the Bangle-butt is gone. The front, though, is pretty strange when looked at from one side. It’s very steep, so to say. But the bonnet is long and nice and it looks very much like the kind of car you wouldn’t expect a football player to jump out of. It looks more like a car for the manager.

I must say I was more nervous about how this car was going to look than I would be about finding whether my wife’s carrying a boy or a girl. Well, it’s not a boy, it’s not a girl and thank God it’s not a Troll either, like the last model. It’s just a car. Plain, normal and extremely luxurious. Does this mean Bangle is on a vacation?