86 replies to this topic

[MaxAndPaddy]

We'l have one...one day

Did consider selling Paddy and getting one, then drove him again and decided I couldnt part with him

[Mini_Magic]

Whether you like them or not they are future classics.... and the clever collectors with an eye for a future investment will already have those early models in their collection

Getting a bit sick of this kind of thread lately, there seems to be one or two a week

Better get some work done

Do you seriously think this ugly squashed "lifestyle" car will be a future classic? It's a fad that will be forgotten about in a few years time.

The normal BMW Mini I could quite easily see being a future classic, just look at the residual values.

Just to confirm, I started this thread purely too see what people thought of the car. Not as an excuse for "BINI bashing".

Just to confirm......READ WHAT I PUT!!

My choice would be an early JCW

Sorry thought you meant the Countryman/Paceman would be a future classic!

[MaxAndPaddy]

Nahhh its been squished

[Tahiti Joe]

I'd have one if it wasnt for the 2 seats....then I'd have the old and the new Grand Prix's

They're taking orders for the new one

Don't tempt me....!

Drove an R56 JCW a while ago, and as lovely as it was, and the interior was a lovely place too be, for me you just can't beat the power delivery and the whine of the earlier supercharged R53s! Saying that, the new ones do use about half the fuel!

[jb93]

Don't tempt me....!

Drove an R56 JCW a while ago, and as lovely as it was, and the interior was a lovely place too be, for me you just can't beat the power delivery and the whine of the earlier supercharged R53s! Saying that, the new ones do use about half the fuel!

Nope, you can't. My mum's got a cooper, and tried to go past one, I told her not to as she'd just get embarassed (which she did) but that whine is addictive

[Alex_B]

Yeah when I finish Uni I hope to get a JCW as a daily, and if I have enough cash I will be restoring mini, and having a matching pair, that would be ace, same colour, same styling cues, Just because!

[mini-man-dan]

Love the new Paceman. Can't stand the countryman though, too much of a school run car.

Got to be the nicest looking new model for a while. Don't like the backwards baseball cap coupe thing they've brought out.

Very Evoque, which I also really like.

[megamini_jb]

BORING!!!!

[megamini_jb]

Go be a member on a MINI forum and tell them you think their cars are crap or look ugly or whatever. I don't think many of us care if you like/dislike them. I never used to like them much, but I like them now, even the paceman. You know how these threads go and to be honest it's boring now. We don't care!

Edited by megamini_jb, 13 September 2012 - 08:15 AM.

[megamini_jb]

I'd have one if it wasnt for the 2 seats....then I'd have the old and the new Grand Prix's

They're taking orders for the new one

[Nick Warwick]

Lots of people with classic mini blinkers on in here.

[Chance]

Yeah when I finish Uni I hope to get a JCW as a daily, and if I have enough cash I will be restoring mini, and having a matching pair, that would be ace, same colour, same styling cues, Just because!

Ive always loved the idea of this
New and old kind of thing

[Tahiti Joe]

Yeah when I finish Uni I hope to get a JCW as a daily, and if I have enough cash I will be restoring mini, and having a matching pair, that would be ace, same colour, same styling cues, Just because!

Ive always loved the idea of this
New and old kind of thing

Me too, and was my original plan, but then a bargain R53 came up at a really good price and I couldn't resist it!

Don't tempt me....!

Drove an R56 JCW a while ago, and as lovely as it was, and the interior was a lovely place too be, for me you just can't beat the power delivery and the whine of the earlier supercharged R53s! Saying that, the new ones do use about half the fuel!

Nope, you can't. My mum's got a cooper, and tried to go past one, I told her not to as she'd just get embarassed (which she did) but that whine is addictive

It really is, and if it wasn't for that and the 240 odd BHP that mines now running, I would of been fed up of 25mpg a long while ago!!!

[mab01uk]

Drove an R56 JCW a while ago, and as lovely as it was, and the interior was a lovely place too be, for me you just can't beat the power delivery and the whine of the earlier supercharged R53s! Saying that, the new ones do use about half the fuel!

2 x R53 Mini Cooper S JCW GP on the Nurburgring

Edited by mab01uk, 13 September 2012 - 06:32 PM.

[MaxAndPaddy]

Oooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfff!! (odd sound of the day)

Got to do the Nurburgring one day its on my bucket list