Average age of MINI owners?
Most of us are about 4 or 5 years older since the last time this subject came up
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2nd Gear
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: San Diego, CA
25 and hell by the time I get the car I might be 26... I wish I had enough money to buy my own, so I'm paying for half along with someone else. How the heck can you buy 3 cars by the time your 20!? Im curious....lottery perhaps?
Alliance Member
Joined: Apr 2003
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From: York, Pennsylvania
Here is a histogram showing data collected in the MINI Owner's Lounge a few years ago. I suspect the basics of this curve remain the same. The average age is around 40 with ages ranging from mid-teen student driver up to ~80 years old 
(The dip in the late 20s is probably reflecting young married folk who have financial obligations preventing them from "splurging" on a MINI.)
(The dip in the late 20s is probably reflecting young married folk who have financial obligations preventing them from "splurging" on a MINI.)
all the time. "We're having a baby and so of course we'll have to get
rid of our compact or subcompact car. Need something really big and
heavy for safety and transporting people and stuff now."
3rd Gear
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: So. Cal
<< 22 now. got the car when I was 21. When I got my career going I got the car. It was between The Lexus GS (something "professional"), STi or the MCS (fun). The Mini Just knocked my Socks off when I drove it.
4th Gear
Joined: Jul 2007
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From: Sacramento, CA
I completely agree with this explanation of the drop-off in ownership around 25-35. My husband and I aren't ready to have a kid and figure it will be at least 3 years before we do, so it seemed reasonable to get the Mini. Had we been ready for kids, unlikely we would have made this choice...I figured I could drive around a boring, run-o-the-mill sedan for the next three years, or just get on with enjoying my child-free life
(not that you can't enjoy life with kids--not trying to offend anyone...just saying I'm making this choice for now so I may well enjoy things I might not be able to have if I have kids.)
By the way, we're both 31.
1st Gear
Joined: Jul 2007
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MY wife won't let me say, I'm 72
. I still bicycle all summer and snowboard all winter, Just like Peter Pan I'm never going to grow up. 
OVERDRIVE - Racing Champion
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Mililani, Hawaii
That's pretty old. Dirt that is.
So besides having a MINI you can join this-
http://www.olderthandirt.org/whatis.html
On that histogram did anyone else notice one driver is 13 and we don't have anyone over 90. Common lets get someone 95 to drive a MINI. Not sure how fast they would want to be going though.
I wonder how old the oldest race car driver is? That still races.
So besides having a MINI you can join this-
http://www.olderthandirt.org/whatis.html
On that histogram did anyone else notice one driver is 13 and we don't have anyone over 90. Common lets get someone 95 to drive a MINI. Not sure how fast they would want to be going though.
I wonder how old the oldest race car driver is? That still races.