My 1,200mile test drive!
 

Yes it's true! Sort of! I just recently purchased my Mini, it was orignally for sale in my home town of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. After a couple of visits with and without my family ,being that it was unique even in Mini world I fell in love and knew there was no other car for me. The only problem with it I could find was the slave cylinder on the clutch was squishy. Here's a pic in the showroom in Vancouver:

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Unfortunately or so I thought at the time my wife forbid me to buy it until our other car was sold. The price of the Mini kept coming down and down, but I couldn't sell my car, sure enough a guy spotted the Mini ad in another Province 1,200 miles away, he decided to fly out here and buy it and drive it back, needless to say I was crushed. Low an behold 1 month later I see it up for sale again! I call the guy and he's actually in a BMW/Mini dealer in Regina, Saskatchewan signing papers trading it in on a 2005 Acura RSX type-S, he said the Mini was too small, not fast enough, blah, blah, blah. So a couple of days later I call the dealer explaining I know the car etc, they say they've installed a new clutch, and it's so clean they are offering a two extended warranty and the price was $3,000 less than what it sold for here! They said they would hold it for me till I could get out there, so I re advertized my Maxima and within 24hrs I had sold it for asking price ( heavily modded car):

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I flew out two days later with my father for company made the deal and headed out on the 1,200 mile return journey, on my way out I said to the Sales guy " I'm just going to take it for a test drive to show the wife" :lol:

We drove for 8 hours on virtually straight hwy through the Prairies,:
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Halfway home 600miles:

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Then through the Rockies ( mountains) lots of great twists and turns:

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17 hours "test drive " time we were finally home , not a single drop rain averaged 75MPH, had a great test drive, good thing the wife and kids liked it! Because I wasn't taking it back!!!

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Great story, that's definitely the way to start a relationship. I picked mine up last Wednesday and had about 3 hours on the way home. I think that's a great way to get to know your new baby.

Glad it worked out for you and grats on the new car.

If someone doesn't like the car just have them take a drive in it to change their mind.