How tall are you MINI owners??!!?
Same for my husband. He says the MINI is comfier than our Legacy wagon...
6'2", size 14 shoes. I don't ride with the seat all the way back. I have plenty of room at the pedals with tennis shoes . . . actually indoor soccer shoes. I do have a little problem with my hiking boots but then, they're a bigger problem in the F-150 I sometimes drive at work (tendency to hit the accelerator while braking).
While I'm 6'4", my dad is about 5'4". I get lots of "mom and the mailman" jokes.
Uhhh......
Not so fast there, Bub!!
6'8" here ,too.
Plus I've heard of a few 7 footers owning MINIs.
Jim
I was in Europe on vacation last month. It seemed like most all of the overhead traffic lights were pretty much directly above where you stop at an intersection. I found myself looking out of the (open) roof a lot in the MCC I rented. I'm sure I would have been looking out of the sunroof if I was in my MCS out there...
I can't imagine how much harder it would have been if I was taller than 5'9"...
I can't imagine how much harder it would have been if I was taller than 5'9"...
miniviper
6'5" and no issues with the rearview mirror. Quite comical when we pull up to a stop and get out of the MINI. My son who just turned 15 is 6'2 1/2" and sits behind my wife while my other son at 13 is 5'7" and sits behind me as I drive. It requires some serious seat adjustment and comfort sacrifices to ride all four of us. One of my other cars is a 740il with limo-like proportions in the rear seat. When I ask "Which car do you want to ride in?" invariably it's the MINI!
Mine's an end of production run 06 S all stock so far except for a Borla exhaust. My 740 has 282 horsepower and I wanted to see what the MINI would do against it from 60mph on up. My wife was in the Bimmer and my two sons and I were in the MINI so I had 300 pounds extra weight besides myself. We left her in the dust and when I reached 105 I let off and she was 10 car lengths back. I was amazed and accused her of not totally flooring the Bimmer. She said she did have it all the way down and we repeated the same run again with the same results! Guess I broke mine in right as my MA told me to run it as hard as I wanted, just to not use the cruise control and to vary my speed for the first 1200 miles.
Disclaimer: These runs were done on our private track.
Mine's an end of production run 06 S all stock so far except for a Borla exhaust. My 740 has 282 horsepower and I wanted to see what the MINI would do against it from 60mph on up. My wife was in the Bimmer and my two sons and I were in the MINI so I had 300 pounds extra weight besides myself. We left her in the dust and when I reached 105 I let off and she was 10 car lengths back. I was amazed and accused her of not totally flooring the Bimmer. She said she did have it all the way down and we repeated the same run again with the same results! Guess I broke mine in right as my MA told me to run it as hard as I wanted, just to not use the cruise control and to vary my speed for the first 1200 miles.
Disclaimer: These runs were done on our private track.
Last edited by miniviper; Nov 8, 2007 at 12:26 PM. Reason: wrong height of son
5'7", 160 lbs. My seat is pretty far forward because I like to be right up on the controls. I feel like I could lose it if I'm not right there. How people get their lean on and drive is beyond me. Also, tallest in family. I can sit on the back of dad's bike which has a back seat about 3 inches higher than his, and if I'm wearing Chuck's, I can rest my feet flat on the ground while he has to struggle to touch wearing his boots. Yeah, my old man is short.




. I'm 5' 10"