Rate this Mini Cooper please!

[Bonefish Blues]

Does the hard top come off to make it into a soft top though?🤔 I knew a bloke who had one, keeping the hard top on till the warmer months, then back on it went come around now, as in November.

You may be confusing that MX5 with the Honda S2000 Accy.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Does the hard top come off to make it into a soft top though?🤔 I knew a bloke who had one, keeping the hard top on till the warmer months, then back on it went come around now, as in November.

Check it out! It says £345 annual tax. Are we talking 'road tax', as if so, that is fecking crazy!!😲

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Check it out! It says £345 annual tax. Are we talking 'road tax', as if so, that is fecking crazy!!😲

That £3 a week difference between the Abarth and this is a real killer I guess.

 

[Drago]

Check it out! It says £345 annual tax. Are we talking 'road tax', as if so, that is fecking crazy!!😲

But then the cost of the engine rebuild the Abarth will need before too long will dwarf that.

 

[fossyant]

If you goal is to have some spare cash left, take a bit of advice. If not buy what you like, then we'll be expecting 'is this bill real' thread, when something breaks. You need a good maintenance and repair budget for some cars.

 

[stephec]

Next thread “The a*se just fell out my car and the garage want £3,000 to fix, what should I do?”

Needs at least another ten words on the end of that.

 

[CentralCommuter]

Needs at least another ten words on the end of that.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

[Accy cyclist]

If you goal is to have some spare cash left, take a bit of advice. If not buy what you like, then we'll be expecting 'is this bill real' thread, when something breaks. You need a good maintenance and repair budget for some cars.

You're talking to me like I don't know about these things! 😏 I might've been unlucky in life in some ways, but touchwood I've always been relatively car hassle free, since my rust bucket British Leyland days. If we didn't buy cars, worrying they might go tits up, then the 'pre-loved' car market would also go tits up!!🧐

 

[Accy cyclist]

That £3 a week difference between the Abarth and this is a real killer I guess.

Break it down as much as you like, but when it's due, it's a total ball ache! £345 is a total rip off, which I will not be paying!!👎

 

[Accy cyclist]

There's something about this car I do like! I'm not a fan of red cars, but it has that certain something which I can't quite put my finger on, even though it's not a desired cabriolet!🤔

https://www.autochoicecarsupermarke...PI4nyPU-yp2CpJI0iU_aem_hGsY71vLJpwCN5RvGMnJ0w

 

[Accy cyclist]

That £3 a week difference between the Abarth and this is a real killer I guess.

When I passed my driving test in November 1978 I bought a 1965 Austin Mini for £90. In those days £345 would've bought me that Mini, a deposit on a two up/two down terrace house, a fortnight in Blackpool, a Blackburn Rovers and an Accrington Stanley season ticket, at least 3 wide lapels/ flared trousers, pinstripe suits from Clobber Boutique in Blackburn (heck I ❤️ed and miss that place 😥), a Jack Russell pup, and a plot in the local cemetery for my burial in many decades to come! Let's not make light of 345 quid eh!!🧐 😬

 

[Drago]

There's something about this car I do like! I'm not a fan of red cars, but it has that certain something which I can't quite put my finger on, even though it's not a desired cabriolet!🤔

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Thats the 1.0. Not quick, but tough as old boots and economical.

They can rot, so have a really good nosey underneath.

Good fun little cars, and being essentially Toyotas they don't have the usual Peugeot flakiness.

 

[Illaveago]

Not too kind of far away, but chucking 8 grand on a car that will do 2,500 to 3,000 miles a year and with a high mileage, is it worth it?🤔

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Pretty colour.

 

[DCLane]

@Accy cyclist - you do know there's a convertible version of that 5-door Pug 108 don't you? Or at least the roof rolls back at the top:

 

[Bonefish Blues]

When I passed my driving test in November 1978 I bought a 1965 Austin Mini for £90. In those days £345 would've bought me that Mini, a deposit on a two up/two down terrace house, a fortnight in Blackpool, a Blackburn Rovers and an Accrington Stanley season ticket, at least 3 wide lapels/ flared trousers, pinstripe suits from Clobber Boutique in Blackburn (heck I ❤️ed and miss that place 😥), a Jack Russell pup, and a plot in the local cemetery for my burial in many decades to come! Let's not make light of 345 quid eh!!🧐 😬

I was putting the difference between £345, which you baulked at, and £195 which you were content with into context - that it's £2.88 a week* I was not making light of it Accy. Since then you have expressed attraction for a wholly unremarkable car costing £6000-odd...

*VED is a very small part of the cost of running a car, yet it assumes enormous significance for some people for reasons I never understood**. Perhaps the same people who one hears of spending say 10K to reduce their running costs, because lower mpg.

**I sold my Volvo C70 T5 auto to a chap. Only on day of collection did he make casual enquiry about its VED rate, so we played a game of higher/lower. I thought he was about to have a coronary right there and then... He said he needed to have a discount, so I gave him £100 off. That man was a fool on many levels but he subsequently texted me to say the car was exactly as I'd described it (er, yes, of course it is because I'm sort of an honest chap) and he loved it.