ive been looking for a new car and came up with one of these.
ive got a really good deal and the car im looking at has the CHILI pack and the wheels i want etc, its £16K and has although been registered to the dealer, only done 165 miles.

does anyone have one or know about them?
i havent bought it yet, but am thinking about it.
The 74mpg combined is bringing me in!

any light shared is appreciated!

 

Minis are gay

 

Ive got a good freind who says they are fantastic and he is a very good driver who has owned lots of performance cars. Belive it or not he used his mrs's cooper d clubman on the handling track at a rotary day at santa pod and came second overall for the whole day! He beat all sorts of quick stuff

 

Great little cars, ive never heard a bad thing about them.

Oh & thery're far from gay.

 

I like them but every mini i see has a woman driving them or there a learner car.

 

im also going to look at the DriveE volvo s40/c30 as well as the bluemotion golf and polo. all do 70+mpg combined, in fact the polo does 80 apparently. Free tax and low insurance etc. it all seems fairly appealing.
my worry is the volvo will depreciate really quick and the golf/polo will be boring as beige.

the Mini does handle really nicely, i test drove one just after i posted and liked it!

 

i thought that till i drove one, get in one go to yor nearest large roundabout and go round it with foot buried in the carpet, when you are exiting that roundabout around a ton mph plus come back on here and tell me if you still think they are gay

 

Great car, gotta be one of the best daily driver you can own.
I owed a cooper s as a daily for over three years and totally loved it.

 

love the whine from the supercharger, very capable cars in the correct hands

 

he's looking at a diseaseal, way WAY different

some reports haven't been too favourable in the motoring press though and the economy should be taken with a pinch of salt apparently

 

i have one as a loaner while the scenic gets paint
i deffo wouldnt buy one
its clear they want it to drive like an odl mini and it does, every bump and lump you feel,tracks like a fiesta on 18's

the bizarre speedo and daftness for teh sake of it too!!
we have a 2012 special edition (are any not spec ed?) and it has some cool touched like london skyline on dash etc but i woudlnt want it, missus wanted to swap it for something else because its bad to drive as we live in the sticks
she is calling every say to get her 2000 scenic back lol
my neighbours mum hates hers too but cant afford to get shot of it with the finance and all

but it is quick for a little car dunno about mpg but its pretty high, ill be out in it tomorrow collecting some wheels LOL

 

 

yeah but how many well handling as in ability to take corners properly can also turn into a comfortable road car?! these are made like you say much like an old mini with the ability to turn on a sixpence! its horses for courses mate

 

the course being not wanting to go further than an hours drive?
fair to say it does what it does but getting saddled with a car you took a 10 min test drive in is no good
its faster than the 1.2 2012 fiesta i had last month but then i did a few 2 hour plus journeys and was pretty comfi (except my foot being flat more of the time to get up the hills)

 

Case closed! You'd have to be a tart or a sausage gobbler to want to own that, give your heads a shake

 

correct me if im wrong but peugeot engine`d diesel yes?

do a few miles and pay the bills, not good!

these are/were stricken with shocking reliability of oil carbonization that destroyed anything from injectors to turbocharger and oil pumps and feed/return pipes.

check out the warranty remover/clean/replace noted on any 1.4/1.6/1.8 pug TD engined Ford, Volvo, Pug, Mini etc, shocking shocking engines matey

stay well clear

 

Ive heard that about the peugeot engine too.You have to use the proper engine oil or the turbo dies.

 

They really want the Oil changing inbetween the service dates and this seems to help with the problems mentioned above.

The 70+mpg isnt really real unless your sat at 56mph on the motorway all day. 60mpg works out at about the average if you do mixed driving, alot of town stuff and they do drop quite a bit.

 

cabonizing stems from injectors allegedly!

for warranty you need to strip the motor and clean all the oilways on the block and replace oil pump lol

i am told the dealers ford/volvo/mini just replace units.

shocking

 

You'll be saying next the Mini WRC cars are gay...take the Ford blinkers off, they're a good car.

 

TBH I think the Diesel is a sausage gobblers car, it doesnt have any poke like the others, but the OP clearly wants high MPG so it fits the brief, my £16k wouldnt go there for a frugal new diesel

 

The OP isn't buying a WRC mini, and no ford blinkers here. Any bloke who owns a new mini is either gay or wants to be gay

 

Great little cars

 

 

Driven a few minis and felt out of place as I don't use tampons.

 

I have a Berlingo van with the same diesel engine as the Mini.....

3 turbos in 4000 miles and each time the works was carried out by the book, sump off and cleaned, new oil pump, injectors out and cut and reseated etc etc etc. Current turbo is on 2000 miles so fingers crossed it's ok.

The annoying thing is that it has an oil change every 5000 miles with the correct oil and a full service every 10,000 miles..


Steve

 

Decent little cars mate, we used to manage the production line where the inside was assembled, very well made compared to most other manufacturers. Perfect daily car imho.

 

the diesel is quicker round town than the baby petrol.
i just want a 'fit and forget' kinda car. Im not buying a mini for the looks, its the mpg and resale of it. they dont depreciate fast at all! BUT if they have the kinda service record i may look else where. i want reliability!

 

Whats funny have you driven one ? they are quicker than the petrol's apart from cooper s , they do good mpg as well . the new cooper s d is near 200 bhp its a bmw engine not the french engine that the older one used same engine in the fiesta tdci's etc ,

They handle great and do good mpg , take the blinkers off

 

The new ones are bmw engines that you get in the 118-120 d's and i work for a bmw/mini dealership i reckon we look after at least 300 of these little cars without changing any turbo's , bear in mind it will be the same engine in the older cars but wont be the same turbo's , i know this fact because my misses has a 57 plate tdci fiesta 1.6 and the turbo is slightly different on that to the mini although same engine in the older cars there are changes bmw/mini have made to its surroundings

The older mini's with the french engine suffer a bit from water pump;s leaking contaminating the belt apart from that there are hardly any spanners near them

 

No blinkers mate, they are a girls car. I don't care how fast they are or aren't, my opinion is they're gay looking for homosexuals, hairdressers, interior designers or females .
Not even a proper mini IMO, it's a BMW half series.

 

you talk shite what do you drive ? , i wouldnt own one but at the same point i wouldnt knock them for what they are , the numbers that they sell says it all , The new cooper s/d will give alot of hot hatches a good run for the money delivering good mpg in this day in age thats what people want plus the options availave make them very nice little cars as you can spec your own car ! hence why they are so popular to homo's , hairdressers , females

 

Have you ever thought maybe he might be gay?

Or people reading this read that are gay, maybe they don't see why they have to be associated with a Mini.

 

James thankfully im not gay or i would have taken offence

 

I was answering the question the op asked , people says the engines suffer from turbo failure - not true the new ones use a bmw engine not the french engine , even the french engine dont suffer from turbo failure but will be a bmw/mini speced turbo

The mpg claims are a bit out there but im sure it would be possible to get the claimed but in normal driving it wont be as good , are they good cars Definetly yes

Service packages are good that do you up to 50k miles = perfect warranty is good

 

Not griefing gays I said it's a gay looking car. Which it is!!!

 

Everyone is entitled to their opinion fair enough

 

had a cooper s and was always conscious of how gay i looked in it...

 

I don't talk shite, I have an opinion which alot of people will agree with. I'm at work now with a homosexual colleague (sp) and he even says mini's are gay as fuck!!! (And he's right) lol

 

Thanks lol