subwayseth wrote:
both, but i thought the Japanese loved mini's
It's the pits - literally!
From memory, in Japan your new car must go over the pits after 3 years, then every 2 years after that. An incentive to get old s...boxes off the road, and of course to buy a shiny new car! The closest we get here in Oz is compulsory inspections at time of sale in SOME states. And even then we consider it a right pain in the posterior.
For example, way back in 2000, my Japanese friend had a 95 Honda Civic VTi coupe. A$1200 for the inspection thank you very much - and there was nothing wrong with the car! When he came to visit me a few years later we were driving down the road in Perth and we saw an old Skyline (R31?) - the first of the round tail light models. For him it was like finding an HDT Group A SS or Phase III GTHO Bathurst Special Edition with delivery kays only!
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the internet wrote:
Like Audrey Hepburn, almost everybody loves the Mini. The only people who didn't love the Mini were pathetic, empty people.
