I've been doing track days and loving in. I was thinking about what my long term plans are and the more I think about it the more I think the MINI is a dead end. As my skills get better the amout of money I'll have to put in the MINI is huge and with no return. It would be easy to spend another $20,000 to $30,000 grand on the MINI and still have a car that was worth $20,000.

So what I'm leaning to doing is keep the MINI at least thru this year at some point bring it back to stock and sell it or use in in trade on a Lotus Elise a real sports car.