You know what i mean
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Ye I think you would have regretted it to be honest. I ran a cooper for two years as my main car, and they really are great little cars, very impressive on the motorway especially overtaking big vehicles. You dont get pulled in like some other super minis, drives just like its BMW counterparts. Although the interior size is a little annoying having two people in the back for a lengthy journey can be pretty uncomfortable for them, especially as i have long legs there is no leg room and I end up all crunched up driving it. But for a run around with the odd long journey its great. Also the twin turbo makes a huge difference the car is much more useable, alot more torque where you need it without too much compromise on the MPG.
But still prefer having a BM as the main car, I bought a 3 series to accompany my first one, loved the combo! Really my mum started to share the mini and I used the beemer primarily, then I decided I wanted something with abit more caliber so got the Z4MC and it was time to change the Mini so got my mum to spec this one up and I will use it when I need more than two seats, or running up to the gym etc and she will use it as her main car, she doesnt go far so its great for her! She loves it, she had 3 original minis, one in mustard, one yellow and one black. But the main reason we got this colour was my dad had a mk1 Golf in a bronze colour and they loved it and always wanted a similar colour. Obviously with a lot of cars being more retro and the mini the forefront of that it was her first choice reliving the youth I suppose haha!!
Mini are a lot easier to deal with than BMW, the dealers are a lot more friendly and upbeat, I suppose they employ a certain type of person to deal with a different target market. Although owned by the same company Lloyds of Carlisle, and I bought the Z4Mc about 2 weeks after ordering the Mini. BMW were a lot more difficult to deal with and Mini just did everything we asked, the salesmen seem to have the power to make decisions! Whereas every time I tried to haggle with the BMW dealer he had to go and 'check' which is rubbish if you ask me, means you can only push so far and you get bored waiting! Took over a week to seal the Z4M deal took an hour to seal the Mini! We originally wanted a 1 series coupe and they were most unhelpful basically saying what we wanted we couldn't have! We were looking for a 6 month old 120dc with leather, sat nav and the visibility pack, they said cars with this engine type dont have these specs, a quick look on auto trader quickly proved them wrong, they clearly wernt interested in going the extra mile, they rang 5-6 times saying 'we have a 118d' I was like we dont want a bloody 118d LISTEN!!!! Pain in the bum really!
Strange differences is service but in the end they dealt well. But really they should! especially in this climate, if you want something I would say go and see what the deals are, the finance deals are great got 3.75% apr which is pretty good atm. But go with loads of info on your car, and the one you want then you can say well they have this at this garage for XX, which is what happened to me. They offered me penuts for my beemer and another dealer had one for sale same age milage etc for 5k more on the forecourt so got an extra £1000 out of my motor above 'list price' and a 2 year extended warranty on the Z4M, its inspection 2 service for free, £500 off the vehicle and a tank of super. Which I thought wasnt too bad.
Tom Scott
