February 7, 2005:
National Geographic
“It’s a big job to build a MINI”
National Geographic February 2005 has a nice spread featuring the MINI and the international source of its many parts:
(click pic for a 500MB big scan!)
(third page of article)
… nearly 2,500 parts … Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, U.K., Italy …
Also interesting is the 17 million projected car sales in USA this year; at 36,000 per year the MINI is a very small percentage!
Posted by GBMINI at 09:45 pm |
Steve Dix (2005/02/08 @ 3:43 am)
You might like to compare it with this Snorty cartoon :
http://www.snorty.net/123
;->