How do you tell what model year it is?
Any external traits that set the '02 apart from the '03? I guess if it is Cabrio you know it is either an '05 or '06.

I've always admired those guys that can tell the year of a car simply by looking at it.

Also feel free to supply the punchline .

 

No obvious external features changed between 02 and 03 that would be easily noticeable on a moving MINI.

Noticeable changes occurred between 2004 and 2005 though

Tail lights changed in 2005

Exterior chrome on Cooper changed in 2005

Xenon lights redesigned for 2005

 

I bet its by the bumper style. Either that or they are bluffing!

 

He/she said: "Ouch, now I've got a scratch in my paint."

 

One thing I would look at is the fresh air vent on the upper bonnet. In '03 they had a foam pre-filter. Sometime in '04 those were changed to an all-plastic unit.

Certain colors came and went as well, most nobably Silk Green and Velvet Red.

 

Dealer swapped mine out on my '02 as the foam was deteriorating. No foam on the replacements.

The '02s and some early '03s have a little swagger to them as well being as how they're 'seasoned' motorcars!

...Les

 

Just though of another

A dyslectic MINI walks into a bra

haha

 

... and becomes a cabrio! (?)

 

Must have been a topless bar...

Or a bar with free drinks if you go topless.

 

You'd think it would have ducked ...

 

or a gay bar :D

 

A MINI walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under it's door and says, "A beer please, and one for the road."

 

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-Paul!