I'm going to wait for one of us to rash the ones on the new car...and it will happen if history is any indication...before getting new wheels. I haven't spend a lot of time with it yet, but all indications are that it is 2/3 the car the BMW was. Of...it costs 2/3 the price of a new BMW, so maybe that's the trade-off.
Sure miss having a manual trans. I've owned a couple of 3-series, and really loved the 325-ES back when I could justify it. Come to think of it, I never could justify it, but sure was fun to drive. Now, with not much reason behind it, a Mini Cooper S is calling me. Just looks fun and easy on gas.
You're welcome to take mine for a spin too. Clam, didn't you go from an S to not an S? Mine isn't an S. Didn't want the super-stiff suspension. But you really are welcome to take it out - top down (on the car of course).
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I have seen a lot of tops down recently; I hope the topless weather is here to stay If the warm weather is here to stay that means the top will be coming off the Jeep sooner rather then later
Funny, Gus - very funny...you're such a cad sometimes!
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. " -Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Posts: 3237 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL | Registered: April 04, 2003
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. " -Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Posts: 3237 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL | Registered: April 04, 2003
Test drove an '08 Mini S at Bill Jacobs yesterday. What a cool little car! Wheeeeeeee!
When asked about used S's they looked at me like I was crazy. "We almost never see them... and there's no point. They hold their value all too well. Most go to friends, relatives.. Just order up a custom car—seriously."
Not one to take that as fact (the eternal skeptic that I am, as those of you who know me can attest to), I just clicked up Carmax. There are 35 used Mini'stotal in the entire country, and only a handfull of 3-yr. old or newer cars. And their "no haggle" prices? Oh my word! At or higher than new. Really. Even if those prices are over-jacked, still... good grief!
Swore I'd never buy another car new. Now am re-thinking that. And yes, Clam, the suspension is pretty tight. I'm wondering how it might feel on a 1000 mile road trip.
The 15 yr.-old Safari might be gathering more dust and rust soon. And I didn't toss the old lawn mower just yet. Only one new thing with an internal-combustion engine allowed per year.
