FOAK[1]: Mini Cooper

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Get a Suzuki Swift, great fun car & miles cheaper. Also looks quite
decent too.

 

Mine had loads of problems, but the main one was the jerking you got
when moving off. You could not drive the car properly. Thats not a
niggle. The tyre pressure monitors go off at every verse end.

Then the cost of the run flat tyres......

Nige

 

Brother had one. Well built, nice interior, not as fast as you wanted
it to be, fun to chuck around.

 

My ex's divorced dad got some very tidy mileage out of a mini when they
were rather the new thing. You're correct that they're popular for women
of a certain age, and they seemed to be quite prepared to consider the
driver into the bargain.

 

Er, no. Viper stripes look good on a Viper. Possibly another Dodge like
the SRT-4.

They look shit on a BMW, or anything small such as a Fiat Punto, just
like a HKS or Nismo tuning sticker would.

 

Owch

 

They are the new look 'go faster stripes'.

 

Even worse is the Union Flag roof or mirrors.

 

On the mini, they're all stickers!

 

They are, but they still look shite.

 

****'s car. Style over substance fugly BMW with a Chrysler engine.

--
TD
1991 VFR400R NC30 (black and red)
2001 ZX-9R (red and black)
1999 M5 (neither black nor red)
Missing: SOB, Unreliable Italian exotica, Lardy tourer

 

"still" suggests that I thought they looked good! They're a £200
optional extra ffs, and the sales droids stick them on when you're not
looking!

 

Since when did popular equal good?

--
TD
1991 VFR400R NC30 (black and red)
2001 ZX-9R (red and black)
1999 M5 (neither black nor red)
Missing: SOB, Unreliable Italian exotica, Lardy tourer

 

"a bit shit".

I'd have thought she was more of a "new beetle" type of chick.

 

Since this newsgroup called itself 'UKRM'.

D.

 

Oh dear god. They ruined some perfectly usable scientific equipment by
shoving a fricking flower in it! There should be some due care and
attention thing about having a flower on your dashboard!

Can we have a show of hands for people who refer to their machines as
'she'? If it's smaller than an ocean going liner then that *really*
pisses me off.

Also, why does my client think your sig sep is broken?

 

To be fair, if he's looking at a '57 plate, it'd be the new shape - so
it'd be the BMW/Peugeot engine (turbo if it's an S), not the Chrysler
lump (supercharged S)...

 

Ah, cheers. You were one of the people I was waiting for.

It's this one.

http://www.elmsstanstedmini.co.uk/used_mini/view_model.html?currentCh=WMWMF32060TT15122

 

I'll find out when she brings it round later.

Hmm, hadn't thought of those. I'll have a look.