A little more than an hour of 5 dudes sitting around talking about Canada and haboobs. No, not really, but we were a little distracted when we got started wondering if a cube deweler is rocking out to WRR with a sub-woofer at his or her desk. Post a photo on our Facebook page and you might win a badge.
When the music finally started, we talk about the news from Motoringfile and Todd compares a MINI to a Fiat 500 to an 8th grade cheerleader. All you have to do is listen to find out what I’m on about. Plus you’ll get the new Outmotoring.com 5% discount code.
Finish with a little bit of Ask Chad and White Roof Radio live happening this October 22nd at Detroit Tuned. If you are close enough, we’d love to see you!
And before anyone gets upset, Season 17 of Top Gear is coming to BBC America on August 22nd, not this week or next.
**Woofcast 385**
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Perfectly happy with my automatic set to sport manual shifting mode about 80% of the time. I have no experience to compare it to a manual but it seems to provide plenty of joy and feedback to me once you know it’s quarks. Such as it always starts out in 2nd when in manual shifting mode, but it will start out in 1st in sport mode auto-shifting. You have to force it down to 1st after a stop which is a tad annoying. Having said that, I’m expect my next MINI will be manual.
In the meantime, the World Wide Collective of MINI Automatic Owners are sharpening our pitchforks for a little run to Kansas City then a stop in Chicago. See you soon!
Thanks for the heads up Chris, I’ll put Todd and Gabe on alert!
(seriously, I laughed about this for about 5 minutes. Nice work!)
8th grade cheerleader: the new unit of measure when talking about Fiats?
And why is Todd so knowledgeable about 8th grade cheerleaders?
Trivia time: How many 8th grade cheerleaders will fit in the back of a GP?
(All in good fun, Todd!)
Nathaniel — you are not alone, we’ve also lost the CHMSL off our ’02 R50 (no spoiler) in a drive-thru car wash a few years back. -Greg