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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • 2018 MINI Production Plant Oxford. Subscribe.
    MINI Plant Oxford has received a top visitor attraction award from the official national tourism agency for England.
    The plant, which builds more than 1,000 MINIs each day, has been recognised by VisitEngland with a ‘Best Told Story Accolade’ for its factory tour, which gives visitors a behind the scenes look at how this iconic British car is made.
    MINI Plant Oxford is a member of VisitEngland’s Visitor Attraction Quality Scheme, which represents a wide range of tourism experiences across England, from museums and galleries, farm attractions, historic houses and gardens to churches, cathedrals and country parks.

Комментарии • 126

  • @mikedignum1868
    @mikedignum1868 4 года назад +28

    I just bought a Mini Cooper Classic 2019. This is interesting to watch.

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 3 года назад +2

      I just got a Cooper S. Nothing quite like a Mini.

  • @EthanJonesEthanJones
    @EthanJonesEthanJones 5 лет назад +37

    I had a 2008 clubman, 2014 Cooper s, and now am getting a 2019 jcw!!!

  • @carcrazyguysa4059
    @carcrazyguysa4059 6 лет назад +38

    The Union Jack in the tail lights is such a cool touch!

    • @bruceburns1672
      @bruceburns1672 5 лет назад +6

      Its about the only thing British about it .

    • @busterruff9369
      @busterruff9369 4 года назад +7

      Bruce Burns
      Who cares, it’s made in a Britain ,and gives lots of people jobs ,

    • @Martin-hb8cf
      @Martin-hb8cf 4 года назад +3

      @@bruceburns1672 apart from being made in Britain by British workers?

    • @ethancarberry-holt3011
      @ethancarberry-holt3011 4 года назад +2

      It's a symbol of Britain, engineered (not designed by us though) in Britain, built by British workers and is sold internationally

    • @baptiste9623
      @baptiste9623 3 года назад +1

      @@bruceburns1672 mini are one of the only brand that kept the same soul in their showcase car during decades. So for me even if its detained by bm its the only British car I can afford. And really glad

  • @JaymzSim
    @JaymzSim 6 лет назад +81

    I love these videos even more when they don't have any music.

  • @phillipangell5131
    @phillipangell5131 6 лет назад +25

    Love these sort of videos, I imagine the car becoming more and more conscious and
    aware of its own existence as it's being built. When it's sitting there and it gets its wheels and engine it's like a bird that gets its wings and it finally knows what it's born to do.
    Just a thought😊

    • @profmartin1967
      @profmartin1967 5 лет назад +1

      Christine

    • @starsstripes2393
      @starsstripes2393 2 года назад

      Yeah.. then it gets bought by someone who doesn’t respect it,the inside gets filthy,stuff gets chucked in the back,and then the wheels slowly get curbed one by one…💔💔

  • @VPB1970
    @VPB1970 2 года назад +1

    Its so amazing to be able to see how my personal car was made.

  • @Johnsmithxyz213
    @Johnsmithxyz213 Год назад

    It's happy to see my Mini manufactured in Oxford.

  • @noohall9213
    @noohall9213 4 года назад +3

    Makes me proud to be British, We picking up our new Solaris orange Cooper s cabriolet in December 2019,
    Totally love the mini, Can’t wait 😊. Great video........

    • @heisenberg9739
      @heisenberg9739 2 года назад +1

      It's not British. It's German. Used to be British many years ago.

    • @adrianpeters2413
      @adrianpeters2413 2 года назад

      noo hall also built by stoned Indians and Pakistanies and eastern Europe agency workers ,all on a zero hrs. contract ...this is the truth I have delivered there .... and the rear sub frames are terrible just bent tubular water traps ...good luck ....

  • @beetleminicooper7082
    @beetleminicooper7082 4 года назад +6

    I ❤ MINI COOPER

  • @karahmatlyn6187
    @karahmatlyn6187 4 года назад +4

    Getting ready to buy my first used Mini Cooper! That video was so cool!

  • @markmatthew9022
    @markmatthew9022 Год назад +1

    Very satisfying to watch indeed

  • @WearySteerer
    @WearySteerer 6 лет назад +51

    And your job son?
    Bonnet Emblem Location Officer :)

  • @markbeard518
    @markbeard518 Год назад

    Nice! BMC would be proud!

  • @marmiteva820
    @marmiteva820 4 года назад +2

    This was so satisfying to watch

  • @blankblank8468
    @blankblank8468 6 лет назад +23

    Best go carts ever. 🤘🏽🤘🏽

    • @reamphuthi5254
      @reamphuthi5254 3 года назад

      My mom just bought a Minicooper it has powerful engine and 160 Speed

  • @roberthartung5046
    @roberthartung5046 2 года назад +1

    My new car 2022 Mini Cooper Clubman I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!

  • @PiotrSzewczykPL
    @PiotrSzewczykPL 4 года назад +43

    *I work there* ☺

    • @sunilbara3560
      @sunilbara3560 4 года назад +6

      Good job bro

    • @Dawid7034
      @Dawid7034 4 года назад +2

      Na jakim dziale pracujesz ?

    • @PiotrSzewczykPL
      @PiotrSzewczykPL 4 года назад +3

      @@Dawid7034 Assembly

    • @user-bp3mj6gj9t
      @user-bp3mj6gj9t 4 года назад +3

      Thank u so much for making great car from JAPAN 🇯🇵

    • @MrLanarana
      @MrLanarana 3 года назад +3

      You may worked on my clubman too 🤗

  • @danic7302
    @danic7302 6 лет назад +1

    Es una pasada ver el transcurso del montaje de un coche. Creo que esa fábrica sería uno de mis lugares favoritos como buen amante de los Mini

  • @tmvibe6942
    @tmvibe6942 4 года назад +1

    I love MINI

    • @frednutz1604
      @frednutz1604 3 года назад

      So do I but not these ones.
      I like classic Mini's not this BMW rubbish.

  • @wyrdscynce
    @wyrdscynce 2 года назад +1

    is ben still on the door line? i miss a bunch of the guys here, had a real good time working with them, getting a sneaky beer at tescos with the germans was great fun. german culture is so like ours.

  • @josephwhitby3932
    @josephwhitby3932 4 года назад

    I love mini my mum has a countryman 2016 and it is so amazing 😉

  • @bencrosbie
    @bencrosbie 6 лет назад +2

    This is so soothing to watch

    • @charliebowman785
      @charliebowman785 4 года назад

      Maybe if they move the production out of England to Mexico,the cost would be reduced and results 👍 will be better. Mexican workmanship for making automobiles is the best in the world.

  • @marklittler784
    @marklittler784 4 года назад +1

    Fitted together in Britain.

  • @MrGrandis852
    @MrGrandis852 6 лет назад +13

    I wish their paint coating gets a bit thicker, the paint for 2016 coopers are chipped way too easily

    • @the___truth8038
      @the___truth8038 6 лет назад

      Grandis And more expensive than ever! Almost £600 for metallic on their configurator!

    • @MacBookAir-cu4fb
      @MacBookAir-cu4fb 6 лет назад +2

      Can also confirm that on my '14 Cooper S... Sadly I have a stone chip in the bonnet and you can se the metal really good... i need to fix that soon!

    • @marklittler784
      @marklittler784 4 года назад

      Mind you the way they go about cat lick renewing of road surfaces leaving cars to embed the chippings into the surface doesn't exactly help a cars life of remaining stone chip free any more than the pot holes and craters, I am sure a good polish helps considerably to deflecting stone chips and scratches though.

    • @marklittler784
      @marklittler784 4 года назад

      I had an Audi 1999 A4, the paint was virtually non existant on that.

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 3 года назад

      @@marklittler784 must have looked like a Delorean

  • @melraine919
    @melraine919 2 года назад

    WHOA! Splendid 👍✌💪

  • @shankarbalan3813
    @shankarbalan3813 4 года назад +1

    A long way indeed from the old Longbridge or Cowley works with all those strikes and labour problems. Again, it is a lot to do with BMW’s “Teutonic Efficiency” and “Process Orientation”.

  • @finally7664
    @finally7664 3 года назад

    Who ever make this robot they come from another planet

  • @alfredvalrie5541
    @alfredvalrie5541 6 лет назад +2

    The robot which constructed my 2005 Cooper S needs to be disassembled and sold for scrap.

    • @jamessipos6817
      @jamessipos6817 5 лет назад +1

      Alfred Valrie I must have had a different robot . My 2005 S is still way more fun to drive than my BMW X3 or my 1960 Triumph TR3A.

  • @mohammadsajid904
    @mohammadsajid904 6 лет назад +3

    I like this car my dream car♥️

  • @alejandropizarro6719
    @alejandropizarro6719 2 года назад

    nice !!!

  • @UraFlight
    @UraFlight 4 года назад

    If one of the robots will get broken ? What will happen to a conveyor ?

  • @curtiswilliams6325
    @curtiswilliams6325 6 лет назад +1

    Love your vids keep up the good work

  • @xtian2900
    @xtian2900 6 лет назад +4

    2:44 accidental ASMR for those who understand

  • @krokodil191
    @krokodil191 6 лет назад +35

    Do those robots have salary?

    • @krokodil191
      @krokodil191 6 лет назад +1

      hahahaha :D

    • @Scotty_in_Ohio
      @Scotty_in_Ohio 6 лет назад +4

      no but the people who build and fix them do....

    • @bencrosbie
      @bencrosbie 6 лет назад +2

      Technically yes ahhaha xD electricity and maintenance

    • @RsCombe1990
      @RsCombe1990 6 лет назад

      No but they get a free service once a year

  • @kabirsingla8327
    @kabirsingla8327 6 лет назад +1

    Hard work

  • @marklittler784
    @marklittler784 4 года назад

    I remember taking my father to a car sales place they ordered a job lot of new cars and my father got his Ford KA 25% cheaper than when we sat down at the main dealer it just had the company that bought the job lot as the first owner.

  • @Clarencebeeks89
    @Clarencebeeks89 4 года назад

    Good morning !
    Can you fit a duel control break pedal for driving instructing tuition?
    I was told possibly because it’s very similar to the petrol version in construction
    Ps I’m from the uk 🇬🇧

  • @zoetele123
    @zoetele123 5 лет назад +4

    Just add more HP in the mini

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 3 года назад +1

      The road isn’t a race track. All versions have enough power for what they are designed to do.

    • @zoetele123
      @zoetele123 3 года назад

      @@oddities-whatnot It also depends on your driving style and where you live. Mini are fun cars, especially with great power. My countryman s run at 340hp and 350tq. Every day I'm glad I did the modification, mostly because I do long-distance driving always.

  • @Mondaze
    @Mondaze 5 лет назад

    Do you know how long the paint shop process takes?

  • @oddities-whatnot
    @oddities-whatnot 3 года назад

    I know it pays well but I really couldn’t work on a production line.

  • @Scotty_in_Ohio
    @Scotty_in_Ohio 6 лет назад +5

    The rise of the machines - TBH I'm sort of glad industrial robots are putting together my Mini - even the most detailed and dedicated workers can miss things every so often and it's not something I'd like to do for 8 or 10 hours a day....

    • @bencrosbie
      @bencrosbie 6 лет назад +1

      Scott Warmbier true

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 3 года назад

      The workers look so bored, I really couldn’t stand there on a production line no matter how much money I was earning.

  • @emagoutard2576
    @emagoutard2576 2 года назад

    Au moins y'a pas les syndicats pour se plaindre des rendements, et faire greve

  • @adityakp5649
    @adityakp5649 5 лет назад +2

    Robot unions may strike in future for incentives

  • @ulmeulme
    @ulmeulme 3 года назад +1

    android auto pls.

  • @samarohib1588
    @samarohib1588 6 лет назад

    Sengaja memperhatikan mobil2 berkelas terutama mini coper,

  • @timgibbs4762
    @timgibbs4762 3 года назад +1

    Robots build cars better than humans - just ask Aston Martin owners!

  • @Rasam3
    @Rasam3 6 лет назад +1

    R.U.R. In 1920 Karel Čapek wrote a book about robots who turned against a man ... They listen to, but do not preach.

  • @patriciodcosta4545
    @patriciodcosta4545 6 лет назад

    Showwwwww.

  • @tonycdz2445
    @tonycdz2445 2 года назад

    Hi

  • @profmartin1967
    @profmartin1967 5 лет назад +4

    I would rather see a production line with humans doing the assembly works. How many people are out of a job because of automation?

    • @henryhall8238
      @henryhall8238 5 лет назад

      My exact thoughts

    • @houseofno
      @houseofno 5 лет назад

      I see plenty of people assembling these cars. If you think it's so easy to build these cars, let's see you do it. Don't forget to post the video.

    • @nathanhobson1142
      @nathanhobson1142 4 года назад +3

      Trouble is we tried that in the midlands but then the 60s and 70s happened. Workforce V BL = together they killed the native car industry. Better with robots every inch of the way.

    • @marklittler784
      @marklittler784 4 года назад

      With some of the jobs the robots are doing, you certainly wonder if they're saving any time or money using them its almost as if they got carried away with an obsession of using them.

  • @paulwalker9014
    @paulwalker9014 4 года назад +1

    My Fiat Strada was built by robots in 1981.

  • @icebreaka1969
    @icebreaka1969 5 лет назад

    they are not driving on the right side of this minis, they driving on the wrong side lol.

  • @nathalievalk4603
    @nathalievalk4603 5 лет назад

    👍👍👍👍

  • @stevefuller1779
    @stevefuller1779 6 лет назад +2

    Presumably, BMW think that if they put those ridiculous oversized "cartoon" rear light clusters on, the car will look smaller rather than the over weight, over blown monstrositiess that they have become!

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 3 года назад

      Small lights no good in dark. Think of the old Defender ! If you dont like Mini, why bother commenting ? Baffling.

    • @stevefuller1779
      @stevefuller1779 3 года назад

      @@oddities-whatnot , isn't that what the comment section is for? I agree about the small lights but the Mini ones were already big enough, also the new LED one's are too bright and dazzling.

  • @user-zm2ml1rx8z
    @user-zm2ml1rx8z 6 лет назад

    kawaii

  • @charliebowman785
    @charliebowman785 4 года назад +1

    Very spooky and worrying. Not just one single human! I remember those days when workmanship was huge. In Latin America and some other very poor places all over the world, automation results very expensive so they will decide to go for the "African" force. Maybe that's not very bad at all.

  • @johnnysamaniego8384
    @johnnysamaniego8384 4 года назад

    me gustaría tener un contacto con la en sambladora del mini austii

    • @johnnysamaniego8384
      @johnnysamaniego8384 4 года назад

      para un asesoramiento para ponerce una confexinaria en Ecuador

  • @63benny
    @63benny 3 года назад

    L avete snaturata ha perso quella compattezza che la rappresentava la mini é finita dopo la seconda serie

  • @ktmidol
    @ktmidol 5 лет назад

    Good looking car but overpriced here in UK. Parts and servicing are over the roof. Engine quality is not great over time.

    • @MrDeez1229
      @MrDeez1229 3 года назад

      that PEUGEOT-CITROEN/MINI 1.6 THP ENGINE is not that reliable, mostly of them has manifold gasket leak problem, the BMW B-series engine is way better and more reliable...

  • @rgpesie1074
    @rgpesie1074 5 лет назад +1

    Dutch product

    • @Elijah-cy9do
      @Elijah-cy9do 3 года назад

      Only the convertible and the countryman

  • @frednutz1604
    @frednutz1604 3 года назад

    These are not MINI's.
    They are BMW Minis and should not be compared with the real Mini's made by BMC.
    The only thing "Mini" about them is the name.

  • @johnbaldock6353
    @johnbaldock6353 6 лет назад

    Every robot cost's a man/woman a salary to look after there family! Disgusting.

    • @crossroads670
      @crossroads670 6 лет назад

      Lol no.

    • @ProGamerKid2000
      @ProGamerKid2000 4 года назад +1

      I mean it is innovation and technology. The only people who work there are engineers who man the machines and those who ensure quality

  • @stevendouglas3860
    @stevendouglas3860 6 лет назад

    Prefer the old mini .
    This car is way ,way to Big ...
    And like alot of German cars Overpriced , un- necessary Over engineered I as a Mechanic think it's a Terrible Motor . Much prefer Honda, Toyota and even hyundai these will out last that mini.

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 3 года назад

      Yes the old Mini, I had one. No airbags, uncomfortable seats with no head rests, 41 bhp engine, rusting subframe. Yes I can see why you prefer the old one.

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 3 года назад

      Your preferred cars are dull as dishwater. You must be such fun at parties

  • @javiertelleria7664
    @javiertelleria7664 5 лет назад

    nice car but it isn't worth the money, you can buy an audi for less.

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 3 года назад

      An old Audi maybe. You sound like a badge obsessed person. Bit sad that really