I am humbled by the testimonies I find here. To here the praises raised of my MINI’s brothers and sisters does my heart good. Knowing that my MINI is capable of such feats, and greater, but now hearing of them from you heralds great things for me and my MINI’s future.
I had to wait three long years before I finally met my modern MINI. My ’02 had 9k miles when we met in July of ’05. We now have 16k miles on the odometer. What a wonderful trouble free 7k miles it has been.
Make no mistake! The MINI of today has a wonderful heritage. I have owned four Classic Mini’s over the years (and one was a 1275cc Cooper S). But the MINI of today is by far the most powerful, the best handling, the best ergonomically, and the smartest MINI I have ever had the privilege to pilot.

I am humbled by the company we now get to keep………Les

 

 

Do I get honorary membership?? I've got some JCW crap and going to get more, I think.

I saw that post and have had many a good laugh.

 

ok well lets see hear out of the 111,000 miles i have accumilated over the past few years, im on my 9 set of tires oh mine is a july build, bought in september of 02

i drop the clutch regularly take turns to fast gone airborn 3 times heheh scary as hell !autoX, power shift, engine brake heck i live in detroit the potholes here are enoufe to break a car in half i drive my car as if i hate it, my freinds regularly tell me "are you trying to break it"


to this day i have not had any real issue with the car at all
no big mechanical deal really

its been an absolutley awsome car and i never have had a complaint

now however since i wrote this my engine will prolly blow

 

I'm glad to be reading this thread. My MCS is on order and, frankly, all the whining had me worrying about my choice of vehicle. This thread provides counter-balance.

BTW, my current car is a VW Passat. I had all kinds of minor (i.e. the car never stranded me) issues in the first 2 years. I've just come to believe that if you want none of those things to happen to you, buy a Japanese car. Every time I shop for a car, I start at Honda. But I always leave because the cars have no soul. Or, at least, none that I can detect. Heck, this time I started my car search by looking at $50k Infinitis. I looked at the car's eyes: the lights are on but nobody's home. But MINIs pass that test.

 

Bump for MINI Pride.

 

well im up to 140,000 now and no problems still on the origanal clutch to

 

Compared to my Landrover, the MINI is the most dependable vehicle I've ever lived with.

But seriously, we haven't had any probolems that have renderd us stranded. Yeah, we've had our little rattles and loose parts, but that doesn't count.

 

Never had a single problem its only been a month but i know the panthers gonna keep performing as she does now!

 

2002 MC, almost 34,000 miles and still driving like the dream she is. Love your Mini and it'll love you back.