Talk:Mini Moke

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[edit] Your help requested

The Mini article is in the Wikipedia:Peer review process - perhaps heading towards Featured Article status. I would greatly appreciate experts on the Moke taking a look at it. (If you find a problem, please either fix it or post your concerns on the Talk:Mini page. TIA SteveBaker 20:50, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redundant info?

The Mandarin Oriental hotel in Macau runs a fleet of around 43.

and

Happy-Rent-a-Car in Macau runs a fleet of 43 Mini Mokes.

These look suspiciously similar - do they in fact refer to the same thing? Hairy Dude 03:56, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel's web site makes no mention of any Mokes - and there are none in their photo gallery. On the other hand, the Happy-Moke Rent A Car company are still in business (according to THEIR web site). However, this page from Yahoo suggests that the Mokes will be dead and gone by the end of March: [1]

The guest on the RTHK radio programme that day was a little ambiguous. He just stated the facts as he saw it, never mentioning that perhaps the hotel in fact owns the rental company. I am not familiar with the hotel concerned even though I live just an hour's ferry ride on the other side of the Pearl River. I have my own sneaking suspicion that the 2 are in partnership or perhaps indeed the hotel owns the rental company. In fact, it looks very likely to be so. In other words, I have no objection in anyone editing out the unnecessary bits. --Wilfred Pau 07:03, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

There have been several other media reports about this that explain this. 'The Standard' explains:

 "Liz Thomas and Graham Blakey, former residents of Hong Kong, introduced Mokes to Macau in 1984.
    "Graham and I used to come here every weekend and in those days there were no self-drive
     rental cars in Macau," recalled Thomas. "We saw that the police had a dozen or so Mini
     Mokes from Australia that they used as patrol cars, and that gave us the idea."
  The couple contracted to buy 40 Mokes off the assembly line for HK$1.5 million."

Assuming the other 3 came from someplace else - or maybe that the number '40' had been rounded off - this explains they original source of the Mokes on Macau.[2]

SteveBaker 13:23, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Since all of this Moke activity in Macau is gonna be ancient history in a few days, and the detailed fate of 50 Mokes out of the thousands that were made is hardly encyclopedic content, we should probably blow away all of the 'Operators' and 'The Future' sections and just add to the caption of the second photo "...and until 2006 in Macau". Arguably we should leave the page as it is for a week or two so that people who look here precisely because of the news in Macau can still find the facts - but a year from now, this is going to look like a pretty odd article if we don't lose those two sections. SteveBaker 13:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree & move the bit about the CUB's designer plus the engine back up to the main article. --Wilfred Pau 15:21, 1 March 2006 (UTC)