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English to Slovak: Gilding the lily
Source text - English More than 20 months after its launch, people still stare at the new MINI. BMW's new baby might lack the original's innovative charm, but a combination of sound design, cheeky good looks and an affordable price means the novelty hasn't worn off. It's always worth a quick peek anyway, as with potentially 50,000 different MINI derivatives and just 56,500 on Britain's roads, it's possible you might never see the same MINI twice.
BMW's clever attempts to keep the pot boiling means different colour schemes, trim packs, engine outputs and interior specifications. The latest £365 bespoke MINI luggage, for instance, will keep you feeling slightly supercilious should an identical MINI turn up in the hotel car park. Oh, and last week, there was the launch of the Cooper S "Works"... If you are old enough to have survived the 1960s and remember anything at all, you'll recall Mini Coopers. Twice world champion Formula One constructor, John Cooper was a friend of Alec Issigonis and had driven the earliest prototypes of his brilliant little car. Even so, Cooper had to go over his friend's head to secure a trial production run of 1,000 cars, which were specially tuned and launched as the 997cc Mini Cooper in 1961 - the hotter Cooper S came two years later. John Cooper earned £2 for each car that bore his name until, after 150,000 cars had been sold, the lucrative arrangement was ended by BL Chairman Lord Stokes in 1971, unfairly claiming that the Cooper name bumped up insurance premiums.
Not that Cooper was the only firm breathing on Minis. Right from the start of its life, rivals proved equally adept at making the Mini go faster. If Cooper stole the limelight, it was the meticulous engineering of Daniel Richmond at Downton Engineering, Arden Engineering, Broadspeed and many others who made the old Mini sing its heart out.
Fast forward 40 years to BMW's new MINI Project. In the face of much criticism from former Mini leading lights, BMW desperately wanted John Cooper on board. Just as well, then, that the late John Cooper liked the new car and its makers - his name had been re-adopted by the old Mini in 1990. With the exception of the MINI One, all new MINIs carry the Cooper moniker, and, from next month, under the steady hand of John's son, Mike, Cooper "Works" tuning kits will provide additional urge for the naturally aspirated Cooper and, more explosively, the supercharged MINI Cooper S.Wait a minute though, aren't other tuning kits available? Well, yes, they are. In Germany, the new MINI is seen as just another BMW, which brings it to the attention of formidable battalions of specialist tuners who couldn't give tuppence for Cooper or its history. Hartge, from Beckingen, near Saarbruken, is one such and with our usual tact and diplomacy, we borrowed an example of its MINI tuning and turned up at the launch of the Cooper S Works.
Translation - Slovak Aj po dvadsiatich mesiacoch od jeho rozbehnutia ľudia ešte stále zazerajú na nové MINI. Novému dieťatu BMW možno chýba inovačný šarm, avšak kombinácia dobrého dizajnu s drzým výzorom a dostupnou cenou znamená, že je ešte stále novotou. Vždy je dobré len tak nakúknuť, a kedže existuje potenciálne 50 000 derivátov a na britských cestách je ich len 56 500, je dosť možné, že jeden druh neuvidíte dvakrát. BMW sa snaží udržať neustály záujem rôznymi farbami, zmenšeným obalom, výkonom motorov a interiérovou špecifikáciou. Napríklad, nedávna, na mieru vyrobená batožina za 365 libier, by vo Vás mohla vyvolať malý pocit pohŕdavosti, ak by sa na hotelovom parkovisku náhodou objavili dve identické MINI. Ó, a minulý týždeň spustili výrobu Cooper S „Works“...Ak ste prežili šesťdesiate roky a mali ste dostatočný vek na to, aby ste si niečo pamätali, spomeňte si na Mini Coopery. Konštruktér dvojnásobného šampióna Formule 1, John Cooper bol priateľom Aleca Issigonisa a jazdil na tých najskôrších prototypoch jeho briliantného malého auta. No aj tak musel Cooper isť cez vyššie hlavy, aby zabezpečil skúšobnú výrobu 1000 áut so špeciálnym tuningom a spustené na trh v roku 1961 pod názvom 997c Mini Cooper – ešte horúcejší Cooper S prišiel na trh o dva roky neskôr. John Cooper zarobil z každého auta nesúceho jeho meno 2 libry, až kým sa nepredalo 150 000 áut, po čom v roku 1971 túto lukratívnu dohodu ukončil predseda BL Lord Stokes, neférovo vyhlasujúc, že Cooperovo meno zvyšuje poistné. Cooper však nebol jediný, ktorý dýchal na Mini. Už od začiatku ich života sa konkurenti ukázali obratnými tým, že napomáhali Mini k dosiahnutiu väčšej rýchlosti. Kým Cooper uchmatol stred pozornosti, bolo to starostlivé inžinierstvo Daniela Richmonda z Downton Engineering, ďalej Arden Engineering, Broadpseed a mnoho ďalších, ktorí dopomohli starému mini spievať čo najlepšie. Preskočíme 40 rokov, keď BMW predstavilo nový MINI projekt. BMW chcelo za každú cenu získať Johna Coopera, kôli čomu muselo čeliť silnej kritike z bývalého vedenia MINI. Ešteže sa už zosnulému Johnovi Cooperovi nové auto a nový výrobcovia páčili – MINI jeho meno znovu v roku 1990 adoptovalo. Všetky MINI, s výnimkou MINI One nesú prezývku Cooper, a od budúceho mesiaca, dodajú tuningové súpravy Cooper „Works“ , pod dohľadom Johnovho syna Mikea, dodatočnú túžbu po už aj tak žiadanom Cooperi, a ešte väčšiu po plnokompresorovom MINI Cooper S.Ale moment, nie sú k dispozícii iné tuningové súpravy? Ale áno, sú. V Nemecku je MINI považované ako ďalšie BMW, čo privádza do popredia hrozné prápory tunérskych špecialistov, ktorí nestoja o Cooperovo meno a jeho históriu. Jedným z nich je firma Hartge z Beckingen, neďaleko Saarbrukenu. Za pomoci nášho zvyčajného taktu a diplomacie sme si zapožičali vzor ich MINI tuningu a objavili sme sa pri spustení Coopera S Works.
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