Saturday, January 23, 2010

MINI Countryman

The long-anticipated Mini SUV is here, and it is called the Countryman.

Revealed today ahead of its September launch in the UK, the Countryman looks like... well, a slightly bigger Mini.

It's the first Mini to get four doors, and the first to get four-wheel drive, albeit an option: standard Countrymen (which, surely, must be the plural) remain front-wheel drive.

The ‘ALL4' all-wheel-drive system - only available on the Cooper S and Cooper D - normally splits torque 50-50 between front and rear wheels, but can bung it all to the rears if things get slippery.

Even so, the
Countryman seems to be resolutely road-focused: you can, armed with a sufficiently deep wallet, spec your Mini SUV with lowered sports suspension, 19-inch alloys and the range-topping 181bhp 1.6-litre turbo petrol engine from the Cooper S. In fact, all the launch engines - two diesels and three petrols - have been hauled straight from Mini's existing line-up.

It'll be a lot bigger on the inside than the anti-Tardis
Clubman. The Countryman comes with four seats as standard, though the two individual rear chairs can be replaced with a three-seat bench at no cost. Running the length of the interior is a centre rail that Mini calls the, er, Center Rail, to which you can clip an array of moveable storage boxes, allowing you to misplace your mobile phone for days at a time.

Prices are expected to start at around
£17,000, a figure that'll head rapidly north once you start ticking Mini's full array of ‘customisation' options. The Countryman also gets a hefty raft of green measures including stop-start technology and brake energy regeneration.

So you've read the spiel and had a good look through the pictures. Go on then: what do you think of the biggest Mini ever?

Information copied directly from: http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/mini-countryman-2010-01-20

Friday, January 22, 2010

To be creative, you must be uninhibited

Hey guys, this is what I had learn today in my creative thinking class. To be creative, you must be uninhibited. Do you know what does it mean? It means that one must showing their feeling freely. Look at the picture, those guys are actually doing something crazy over there. But it is creative because they are doing something different people usually does and this is cool.

Anyway, I am happy to share my learning to everyone. Hopes you all love it.