Rally Dakar 2013: Peru-Argentina-Chile:Start and end in an MG country

Rallye Dakar 2013:

No MG is taking part but there are competitors in MINI and Great Wall...

http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2013/us/rider/rider-list-cars.html#ancre

starts in one MG country (Peru) and ends in another (Chile). Don't think they can make a lot of sales on Britishness in Argentina... http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2013/us/route.html

They need the Roewe W5 for that event and unfortunately it's not available as an MG and not available in South America...

Windy wrote:They need the Roewe W5 for that event and unfortunately it's not available as an MG and not available in South America...

so what MINI are they using?

patpending wrote:

Windy wrote:They need the Roewe W5 for that event and unfortunately it's not available as an MG and not available in South America...

so what MINI are they using?

The Austrian one - have you not seen how big they are

Windy wrote:

patpending wrote:so what MINI are they using?

The Austrian one - have you not seen how big they are

no I hadn't - that's a MAXI surely. bet it's FAR bigger than ADO14(!)

It makes the MG Icon SUV look like a little sports car!

The mini is just a BMW x5 with mini body
Would be cool if MG would enter

mg-zs wrote:The mini is just a BMW x5 with mini body

Really? That reminds me of the story that the Metro 6R4 was really based on the floorpan of the SD1...

If it's a BMW X5, why is the driver not blonde lol?

They had,but they where looking for the BMW

mg-zs wrote:They had,but they where looking for the BMW

That must be written in double dutch

I think it should have been "They were, but they were looking for the BMW".

Windy wrote:

mg-zs wrote:They had,but they where looking for the BMW

That must be written in double dutch

I think it should have been "They were, but they were looking for the BMW".

Even then it still doesn't make sense.

If only Mark Thatcher were still in the race!

patpending wrote:Even then it still doesn't make sense.

But at least then I can see that it is a joke even if the translation from Dutch isn't quite perfect!

Having looked at that link for double dutch I'm wondering if I can use any of those other phrases, I wonder if they have similar phrases about the English? (Good thing I'm not english!)

patpending wrote:If only Mark Thatcher were still in the race!

He would probably have all those giant minis full of arms to take over Argentina on the way through! And then get lost before he got there, unlike his mother who won her war against Argentina.

Windy wrote:

patpending wrote:If only Mark Thatcher were still in the race!

He would probably have all those giant minis full of arms to take over Argentina on the way through! And then get lost before he got there, unlike his mother who won her war against Argentina.

I looked everywhere for the VW advert "You should have taken the bus, Mark".

Don't mention the war! (At the time the "w" word was never mentioned). I wonder when MG will come to Paraguay, Ecuador and Venezuela? After that only three (one ex) Gui(y)anas (one of which is run as part of the EU, and one of which is RHD IIRC) and Argentina left!

NB Venezuela: the company M.G. Motores is a Chevrolet dealer!

http://www.mgmotores.com/

Dakar is go and Peruvian importer of MG and other marques Todosautos posted this:

patpending wrote:Dakar is go and Peruvian importer of MG and other marques Todosautos posted this:

Is that a three wheeler

Just watched "Falklands' Most Daring Raid" on More4 - if you've not seen it then it is repeated at 01:20 tonight - how we sent a Vulcan nuclear bomber on a 4000 mile bombing run against the Argentinians with 11 Victors to refuel it - excellent documentry and obviously not a war!

there are crashes in their other photos!

Windy wrote:Is that a three wheeler

Just watched "Falklands' Most Daring Raid" on More4 - if you've not seen it then it is repeated at 01:20 tonight - how we sent a Vulcan nuclear bomber on a 4000 mile bombing run against the Argentinians with 11 Victors to refuel it - excellent documentry and obviously not a war!

*walks away from that one* *not feeling like an argument today* I've been swapping pictures of birds with an Argentinian today. Mind you, those old Argentinian birds are BIG...



Thanks for the tip - I'll see if I've got a spare cassette...

From today's action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBadUb6P4uA

patpending wrote:From today's action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBadUb6P4uA

Like I said, a road for the Roewe W5, not the MG3 XROSS

Windy wrote:

patpending wrote:From today's action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBadUb6P4uA

Like I said, a road for the Roewe W5, not the MG3 XROSS

Too true.

TodosAutos on Facebook:

Today the Dakar rally says goodbye to the Peru. Stage 5 begins in Arequipa and ends in Arica. Cars and trucks will run a special of 172 km. While motorcycles and ATVs already run one special 136 km. we expect good news from Peruvians.

...across the Andes by no.73 bus...