Year: 2006
Make: MINI
Model: Hardtop
Price: $1
Mileage: 100
Color: red
Private or Dealer Listing: Private Listing
Location (Region): Midwestern

Post the price, year, mileage next to link, so when it expires we have a reference point for others.

Example:

$7400
06 Cooper S JCW
80k miles

https://ventura.craigslist.org/EXAMPLE.html

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I come across great deals on rarer R53/2 all the time, and usually have to painfully watch them expire. If you see a nice, well priced, or rare Cooper post a link!

I'll start:

Not great prices but here are a couple Sidewalk JCWs:

https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/6121717018.html

https://asheville.craigslist.org/wan/6124697827.html

 

A couple MC40s

https://westslope.craigslist.org/cto/6083981301.html

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/ctd/6109274717.html

https://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/cto/6094321749.html

 

Willing to travel looking for an n18 S manual

Must have digital temperature controls, heated seats , and nice headlights. Under 10k

 

Thats not exactly the nature of this thread. Post amazing deals or rare Coopers here. Might have better luck posting a WTB advert.

 

Year: 2009
Make: MINI
Model: Clubman
Price: $6500
Mileage: 145k
Color: red
Private or Dealer Listing: Private Listing
Location (Region): Dayton, Ohio

https://dayton.craigslist.org/cto/6118992302.html

Year: 2011
Make: MINI
Model: Hardtop S
Price: $10000
Mileage: 74k
Color: black
Private or Dealer Listing: Private Listing
Location (Region): Outside Detroit

https://dayton.craigslist.org/cto/6118992302.html

 

Dealer installed JCW. Seems reasonable for mileage. I just can't stomach tan interiors on anything other than a Ferrari.

https://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/cto/6143765241.html

 

https://boston.craigslist.org/nos/cto/6136808146.html

https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/cto/6140154961.html

https://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/cto/6143765241.html

https://newlondon.craigslist.org/cto/6119737532.html

https://hartford.craigslist.org/ctd/6122875106.html

 

Oh ugh, that should not be in there. The factory must've had some spare interior parts laying around and decided they needed a place to put them.

 

Theres a GP with 60k on it for 14k in San Francisco. Looks like the radiator support has been replaced. Not sure what the deal is with those two braided lines coming from the side of the condenser.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/6119264633.html

 

Catch can?

 

Here's a checkmate:

https://sacramento.craigslist.org/ctd/6145033784.html

EDIT: Dont get too excited, its an automatic.

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Here's a nicely priced, low mileage factory JCW.

https://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/6095981730.html

 

Last of the Supercharged JCW with low miles! Man, if I was in the market I'd be all over this one! Factory LSD FTW!

https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/cto/6129483108.html

 

nearly 8 grand for a salvage titled car?

 

Certainly not my definition of nicely priced...

 

Whoops, missed the salvage title. Keep looking, lol.

 

Looks like it has an oil cooler mounted up front. It has a bunch of other aftermarket add-ons, too.

 

Last of the supercharged ~90k miles for under $10k looks to need a bit of freshening, especially a headlight restore. In Ocean Springs, MS.

http://gulfport.craigslist.org/ctd/6136965476.html

 

Is that an aftermarket head unit?

I'm in the market for something like this. Seems like a great price on a GP if it were in decent shape / no accidents.

 

I have a friend looking for a low mileage Cooper S Convertible.. if anyone spots one in the midwest let me know!

 

2006 MCS for $3500? I wonder what is wrong with it...

It does have 161k on the clock but still seems low to me.

https://youngstown.craigslist.org/cto/6167166844.html

 

Is this real life?? A '09 JCW for $3500

110K miles and it has a clean title. It sounds too good to be true.

https://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/cto/6172196673.html

 

There's got to be something.. Not sure why, but in general R53's seem to go for more than same mileage early R56's. Preference or are those engines grenades?

 

Its the engines. Even if you maintain them they can go. If the check engine light comes on you better stop :(. Valve deposits, vacuum pump, timing chain, EGR valve integrated into valve cover, HPFP and several oil leaks (turbo oil line, and various seals)

 

Wowsers. Is that the case for all R56 variants? Hows F56?

 

My understanding is that the engine issues are most prevalent in the 2007-2010 Cooper S cars. Some of the early 2011s have issues, but late 2011-2013 are pretty reliable (not R53 reliable), but much better than the early R56 turbo cars. Best way to tell is the giant price difference between early R56 S cars, R53 cars, and early R56 Cooper non-S cars.