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My first car was and still is a mini 6 years on, <-- that one over there to be exact. This ******** about a mini as a second car as there not reliable
that particular mini has been my only daily transport regardless. I’ve never being well off, currently unemployed for a start. But it’s so cheap to keep on the road I’ve never seen much point it replacing it with a modern euro box. Hence why I’ve still got it and take no interest in the Bini or any other modern car for that matter.
Yes I have had the odd brake down and 'road side repair', but only once in 6 years and nearly 20k have I had to be towed home because the clutch failed. Witch isn’t too bad considering its a 26 year old mini.
With regards to the cmment about mini's being 2nd cars and not being reliable.
That isn't the reason I run a second car. My mini has an original 40k miles on the clock. Painteork isn't great, but it will be.
I just don't want to drive it everyday. I cover thousands of miles a year travellng up and down the motorway to see friends and family. I drive to work, the shopsand park in a car park at the gym where generally the spaces are too small and be cars are too damn big 4x4's, big BM's, Audis etc. Some of them drivers really are arrogant ******* and won't be even slightly bothered about banging the door into a 25 year old mini.
6 year back I watched from the window Of the gym as a Porsche cayenne driver put his sportsbag on the roof of my old mini whilst he clambered into his car, then leaned over and grabbed his bag.
By the time I'd got down there, he'd gone and all that was left, was some nice scratches on my roof from the metal bits on the bottom of his bag.
The car I take to the gym now, never gets cleaned, so is so filthy (covered in road saltand grime) people don't want to park next yo it, just in case they brush up against it lol.
Ive been driving my mini for 3 years since i passed my test and its taken me all over the country. i do alot of driving and used to drive a 2 hour journey every weekend plus a 45minute drive 4 times a day and it never gave me any problems!
Yes i have problems where i live. If i park my mini outside my house, people have badly dented the bumpers, but ive learnt now that i just cant park it there because i live next to a row of shops and the stupid drivers cant park.......
Also, the thing with the porsche driver putting his bag on the roof of your mini..... that happens in ANY car, not just a mini. Ive seen people doing that to polos, golfs, fords etc....
There is nothing wrong with having a different, more modern car for a daily, i will in a few years time get something else but for the time being all i can afford is my mini. But minis are amazingly practical and many other drivers dont give them any credit, they just write them off as unreliable rust buckets that brake down or cant go on motorways. Ive seen an older lady who uses a walking stick near where i live (along with pleanty of other older people) still using their minis as a daily driver so if they can, i dont see why people just think of them as braking down all the time!!
This forum is one of the few forums left that is purely for classic minis, and overtime when less and less classics, it will be nice to have somewhere that you can still come and see other peoples minis.
I dont think anyone here is being nasty or saying they dont like the new MINIs but just because they have the mini name, doesnt mean they should automatically get a seperate section.
MINIs have their own forums!! thats the thing i dont get, come on here to talk about classic minis and go on MINI2 to talk about MINIS!!!
