Originally posted by: OVERKILL
Hopefully you'll never get in a serious accident with it.
It looks like a mini coffin.
Good luck
Originally posted by: clickynext
You might consider a Mazda MX-5, though I'm not really sure about its gas mileage.
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I think it's a great car...but it's a BMW...built in the UK...expect reliability to be pretty poor.
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
I'm curious if any ATOT'ers have a Mini Cooper, and what they think about it if they have one.
I'm thinking about getting a smaller car that gets really good (35+ MPG) highway gas mileage, but isn't slow or boring looking like a Honda Civic or Corolla.
If you have any other suggestions that meet my criteria, let me know!
Originally posted by: patentman
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
I'm curious if any ATOT'ers have a Mini Cooper, and what they think about it if they have one.
I'm thinking about getting a smaller car that gets really good (35+ MPG) highway gas mileage, but isn't slow or boring looking like a Honda Civic or Corolla.
If you have any other suggestions that meet my criteria, let me know!
Two words, "Maintenance SUCKS!" Mini coopers are nototriously for breaking down, and their dealerships are suualy just far enough away to make getting them fixed convenient. Nearest dealership to me is ~25 miles away, which would be a real pain to get to for an oil change. This was the major reason I didn;t buy one. other than that I loved the car.
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I've had an S and a regular Cooper. The S was infinitely more fun, but got well under 30MPG and required premium. I could pull 40MPG on the Cooper if I was easy on the throttle and had a lot of freeway miles.
The Cooper is slower than a Civic or Corolla, but the handling was good and the options were even better.
Maintenance is iffy. They are not super reliable in all respects. The engines never showed an issues, but I had a couple of little problems here and there (sensors, rattles, etc).
Originally posted by: PaiMei
I would get the Yaris Liftback. It's a lower class car (Toyota's lowest end model), but mine usually gets between 35 to 40mpg. May be too slow for you though.
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I've had an S and a regular Cooper. The S was infinitely more fun, but got well under 30MPG and required premium. I could pull 40MPG on the Cooper if I was easy on the throttle and had a lot of freeway miles.
The Cooper is slower than a Civic or Corolla, but the handling was good and the options were even better.
Maintenance is iffy. They are not super reliable in all respects. The engines never showed an issues, but I had a couple of little problems here and there (sensors, rattles, etc).
The S will run just fine on 87. It has a computer that adjusts the engine for lower octane gas. Says so on their website.
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: Fritzo
The S will run just fine on 87. It has a computer that adjusts the engine for lower octane gas. Says so on their website.
The computer retards the timing and you will have performance loss, which is why you bought the S in the first place
Originally posted by: randomlinh
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: Fritzo
The S will run just fine on 87. It has a computer that adjusts the engine for lower octane gas. Says so on their website.
The computer retards the timing and you will have performance loss, which is why you bought the S in the first place
exactly, who buys a mini-s to be conservative
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: patentman
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
I'm curious if any ATOT'ers have a Mini Cooper, and what they think about it if they have one.
I'm thinking about getting a smaller car that gets really good (35+ MPG) highway gas mileage, but isn't slow or boring looking like a Honda Civic or Corolla.
If you have any other suggestions that meet my criteria, let me know!
Two words, "Maintenance SUCKS!" Mini coopers are nototriously for breaking down, and their dealerships are suualy just far enough away to make getting them fixed convenient. Nearest dealership to me is ~25 miles away, which would be a real pain to get to for an oil change. This was the major reason I didn;t buy one. other than that I loved the car.
They don't break down often, they have lots of minor issues that do not affect driveability. Rattles, yo-yo, things like that.
Originally posted by: geckojohn
They really made a lot of improvements on the 2007 models. I'm thinking about getting one to replace my 2002 Acura RSX.
How do the Mini Cooper compare to the Cooper S? Is it that much slower for city or regular driving?