CALVER'S COMMENTS

This is a section that deals with short comments clearing up issues that crop up either in the press or on the internet/forums where technical blunders are made

 – like calling dampers (the gas/oil filled tubes that resemble bicycle tyre pumps at each corner of the car that stop it po-go-ing down the road over bumps) 'shock absorbers'.

Shock absorbers are the main suspension springs – so the rubber springs on the Mini as standard. And I suppose to a certain extent the tyres. But technically the springs.