are you serious? Rich buggers. Seriously it I was going to get my parent to buy me a car of that value (which would never happen anyway) I wouldnt be choosing one.

yeah it's pretty common over there. i think it's nuts.

**yawn**...are we talking about BINI's Vs Clubbies Vs Roundies Vs whatever, again?

Geeeezzzzzz.....do you reckon grannies, nuns, rich chics just out of school that buy a brand spanker Corolla stop and think about the 'whatever' model corolla released in 1966 ? pffftttt....doubt it.

Gee the 60's models corolla corona and crowns are tuff
I WANT SOME

So classy and stylish
and tuff

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BINI, to me, is just another new car, a poor man's BMW. but it has captured the spirit of classic mini. everyone who is baggin it needs to take the time out to check it out. i did, the guy at the BMW shop let me drive it, but it honestly felt like mums ford driving around town. but i couldnt really play with it, there was heaps of traffic about. i would love to be able to play with one!

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It seems to me people are getting confused between the different types of ownership. For many of the people (many but not all) on this forum owning a mini is part of a classic car ownership with all the hardships that this implies. Ie we actualy enjoy having to, and being able to do engine work, change our own brake pads \ linings, take the head off and cut, burn and bring ourselves to exhaustion while doing it all. Plus there's the added component of driving the cars with all their pecularities, quircks and driving pleasure. And lets admit it we've all probably driven far more accomplished cars than the very basic and primitive mini but "basic" and "primitive" are again all part of the fun. Its all part of being an automobilist in the classic sense (ie part mechanic, part restorer, part cheap thrills weekend racer). There are similar communities of owners everywhere, driving and restoring their Escorts, Jags, monaros, MGs, healeys and what not.

People who own BMW MINIs shouldnt be bagged or ridiculed (well maybe just a little) its a decent, reliable, comfortable, well built car. Accidentaly it is somewhat similar to the original mini even though a "mini" it aint, as the doc always says a corola is smaller. So for people driving the MINI the classic car ownership with all that in involves is not the main thing, instead they want a reliable comfortable car where theres no need to regularly do staff to it to ensure it drives every morning. The "cute" design is a bonus and for some people it plays to the nostalgy for the car of their youth or the 60's icon.

A good quote if from July 2004 CAR magazine (which accidentaly was originaly an all mini magazine in the 60's):

" (BMW)...includes the new MINI which is just a badge of convenience for a great small car that happens to share some exterior design cues with the old mini. It is really a mini BMW not a BMW Mini. "

For me - I only own the beast so that I could write these long pointless posts on this forum.

Very well put Mike.

Only one point I would like to challenge and that is where you said "Accidentaly it is somewhat similar to the original mini " - I do not believe the design of the MINI was any accident by BMW but was in fact a very clever and intensional design giving BMW a powergful marketing angle.

But who could blame anyone for wanting to own one. Top small car out there in today's market.

Of course it was styled on the old mini, just the the new beetle looks surprising similar to the old...

But BMW did not design the mini, ROVER guys did, albeit under the control of BMW..

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driven a bini dont handle like a mini no funny petrol smell like a mini abs ?????
was never in a mini (cept the rovers) it has no rattles hmmmm no not a mini
as for great little pocket rocket cars in the sub $50'000 range who could go past a pug 204 or a subi wrx there are alot of better cars out there that would out handle out drive and earn points with the babe's (or blokes) which ever way you go
and b4 anyone say's what a quant trundle around the block no it was me and the missus and we took it from parra bini garadge and i floged the crapper outa it to see what it would do and how it handled .... bob next time ya see smithy ask him bout the day i came round his place in a bini i left there got to the roundabout kept the foot flat to the floor got it up on 2 wheels and kept going .......
anyways look each to there own i dont like em but i accept them for the simple reason i meet some very nice people up the coast and they did not even bight ....
makka

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BINI earns points with the chicks easy!!!

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Makka thats not very responsible driving.

And you say P platers are bad!!!

BINI drivers never wave to me, but mini drivers nearly always do. I don't think there is any cameraderie there. I don't mind them, but I would rather, as makka says, spend my non-existent $50,000 on something like a wrx or a xr6 turbo or renault clio sport than a small BMW of any description

hahaha

will...do u have PMS everyday?.....(no offence to the ladys on here!)
(take a chill pill willy!)

i would like to point out....i have OWNED 2 MORRIS'S and A CLUBBY!.....(i dont have a side to pick...YOU COULD SAY I WAS BI-MINI!) hahaha

and i have driven both the new COOPER and COOPER S,

i find them to be nothing special.......(but if i had the money i would buy 3 of them!)

DID i say 100% of bini drivers were clueless?....NO 99%, (hehe)

so far the poll shows where most people stand on their opinion,

ULTIMATE bini drivers have a CLUB sticker on the back...and i dont mean TEAM RICE EITHER........ummmm willy?

im sorry to those i may insult, but this is the CHAT page...wher u know....chat about everything MINI

blake

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