R56 R53 vs R56
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Joined: Oct 2002
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From: Hillsboro, Oregon
Never driven anything but our R56. But if previous models give goose bumps and make your heart race like our car, then IT'S ALL GOOD! 
Today was the first day with the 'SPORT BUTTON'; we couldn't wait another 300 miles!! Heck with break-in, let's GO!
Talk about schweet!! That lil' button sure stiffens up the works...NOW that's a go-kart!!
Dig this, we pull out this morning headed for Starbucks...first oncoming car is a brand new BRG w/ white bonnet stripes! We both wave like miniacs!! It was great! Wonder who it is...another new MINI on the Oregon Coast! Still had temp registration tacked up in the back window...looked like Rasmussen Mini logo on the plates...
And double dig this, Annette drops into a cross-stitch shop yesterday and whips out her MYMINI VISA card with a Cooper S emblazoned on it; both clerks in the shop spotted the card and blurted out 'we have MINI's, too!!!
To paraphrase one of my all-time favorite comics Steven Wright, "It's a MINI world, but I'd sure hate to paint it" !!
Cheers...time to go cruisin'...suns out, all blue skies along the central Oregon coast today...
Today was the first day with the 'SPORT BUTTON'; we couldn't wait another 300 miles!! Heck with break-in, let's GO!
Talk about schweet!! That lil' button sure stiffens up the works...NOW that's a go-kart!!Dig this, we pull out this morning headed for Starbucks...first oncoming car is a brand new BRG w/ white bonnet stripes! We both wave like miniacs!! It was great! Wonder who it is...another new MINI on the Oregon Coast! Still had temp registration tacked up in the back window...looked like Rasmussen Mini logo on the plates...
And double dig this, Annette drops into a cross-stitch shop yesterday and whips out her MYMINI VISA card with a Cooper S emblazoned on it; both clerks in the shop spotted the card and blurted out 'we have MINI's, too!!!
To paraphrase one of my all-time favorite comics Steven Wright, "It's a MINI world, but I'd sure hate to paint it" !!
Cheers...time to go cruisin'...suns out, all blue skies along the central Oregon coast today...
As we get older & we all do, refinement means more.
Think back in time to the original Mini. Rougher than a cob & darn near a farm implement by todays standards.
Heck they didn't even have abs or dsc. Not to mention no airbags, AC, power windows, powersteering or even a cup holder. How people survived them is beyond me. But they did & they loved them. It was a different time & peoples expectations of what a car is & has to have sure have changed.
I agree the R56 is just a whee touch more refinded, but the R53 is also very refined. Some folks won't be able to tell the difference in refinement between the two.
Think back in time to the original Mini. Rougher than a cob & darn near a farm implement by todays standards.
Heck they didn't even have abs or dsc. Not to mention no airbags, AC, power windows, powersteering or even a cup holder. How people survived them is beyond me. But they did & they loved them. It was a different time & peoples expectations of what a car is & has to have sure have changed. I agree the R56 is just a whee touch more refinded, but the R53 is also very refined. Some folks won't be able to tell the difference in refinement between the two.
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Joined: Jul 2005
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From: Perkasie Pa
Thinking about getting a second one
I have an 05 H/B MCS and we are looking at ordering a 07 N/F MC for my wife. She currently has a Minivan and she is very interested. She loves the Nightfire Red and wants to do a test drive in an automatic. My MCS is a stick and she can't drive a stick.( we have tried I guess I'm a bad teacher ) Does anyone here have an all MINI fleet as daily drivers and does it work? I want her to be in on all the fun there is to owning one of these cars. Come to think of it she owns half of mine!
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Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Fresno, Ca.
I have an 05 H/B MCS and we are looking at ordering a 07 N/F MC for my wife. She currently has a Minivan and she is very interested. She loves the Nightfire Red and wants to do a test drive in an automatic. My MCS is a stick and she can't drive a stick.( we have tried I guess I'm a bad teacher ) Does anyone here have an all MINI fleet as daily drivers and does it work? I want her to be in on all the fun there is to owning one of these cars. Come to think of it she owns half of mine!
I belong to an all MINI family and its great no Problems at all.
I don't know about looking at a R56 everyday. But thats just me.
Last edited by ChrisW; Apr 25, 2007 at 04:51 PM.
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From: Fresno, Ca.
One thing when you have two MINIS, atleast with my wife and I, Once I got the MINI we always fight over whos MINI we are going to take.
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