For many people a car like Mini Cooper is already a pleasure to see, so just imagine a Double-ended Mini Copper that enables users to drive in both directions.
That type of car was what BMW presented in Techno Classica Essen 2007, a Car Show that took place in Germany.
I guess 2 people can’t be driving this Mini at the same time, or else the final result will be a disaster.
Enjoy yourself with more photos:
[Via AVING]
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MOTORING FUN - MINI Cooper Chat & Blog » Blog Archive » Double-ended Mini Cooper
Apr 5, 2007 at 12:34 am
[...] uberreview.com posted up some interesting photos of a double-ended Classic Mini Cooper. Yes that’s right – a Mini Cooper with 2 bonnets . See for yourself! For many people a car like Mini Cooper is already a pleasure to see, so just imagine a Double-ended Mini Copper that enables users to drive in both directions. [...]
Apr 6, 2007 at 5:31 am
Maybe those BMW engineers remembered the whacky german movie series starring an intelligent VW Beetle. One character was a double ended Citroën 2CV: http://www.moviesection.de/v3/img/datenbank/dudu32.jpg
Apr 6, 2007 at 9:24 am
My mother used to drive on of those 2CV Citroens, but it wasn’t double ended
Nice find GuidoB!
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Apr 6, 2007 at 6:30 pm
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Jul 15, 2007 at 9:36 am
I built this Mini with the help of a few people, no drawings were made, it was built on a Global jig and dimentioned by eye, this was built in the training school at Longbridge in the West Works, no engineers apart from asking if it could be done were involved in its design or construction
Feb 21, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Wow! I saw a US cop car like this once. Then James May from Top Gear made a Salfa Rome-aab ! Hillarious.
I’d like to make a double ender too!
But who can I get help/ideas/advice from?
Normal mechanics would only go so far. But I need to know how to do things like the 4-wheel steering that would have to be implemented, and reversing the driving direction from the engine/transmission when the driver changed sides.
May 6, 2008 at 7:12 pm
i love it ..
thanks
May 13, 2008 at 5:26 pm
The steering was just two steering racks and either one was disabled with the steering lock, whichever way you were traveling, the gear linkage was extended through the back of both remote boxes and linked together with rods, this was very easy and the simplest method
Nov 24, 2008 at 4:14 pm
It reminds me of Jacques Carelman’s ‘convergent bicycle’: http://lbs.cs.berkeley.edu:8080/wiki/index.php?title=IH03-MichaelLovejoy&printable=yes
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Aug 26, 2009 at 4:40 pm
[...] can check it out here on the blog I originally found it on, or for the same story with more pictures [...]
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