Bob Holden raced the original Mini Cooper S –now he tests a new electric model. The performance and quality of electric vehicles has progress significantly.
Bob Holden has been racing cars for nearly 70 years. His biggest victory in Australia was to win the Bathurst 500 race in 1966 in a Mini Cooper S with co-driver Finland’s race a rally ace Rauno Aaltonen.
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Bob had never seen an electric vehicle so we took a new Mini EV up to see him on his farm north of Sydney.
Once he overcame the initial unfamiliarity of not being able to hear the engine he soon settled into driving and enjoying the car.
He summed up the experience
“It’s just I can’t believe how good it is and how well life continued a program and kept it in front of itself all the way. I think that’s a funny way of putting it. But to me it’s just it’s grown with the technology.
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