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[Wise Old Elf]

The £20k cars are a different market as said above. They are delivery mileage cars that you would be scared to drive.

A MOTed car is £4k and a restored car a bit more. The £4k cars are still tatty so don't expect a minter.

[Lee cooper]

Great thanks, you just described it to a tee. So last silly question, why an rsp and not one of the other limited editions, say the min sky that they only made 500 of?? Is it all down to the cooper return?

[Wise Old Elf]

Yes. Return of the 1275 Cooper. :)

[minidizzy]

The RSP and Mainstream Cooper had a carburettor. The Cooper changed to injection in 1991 because of increasing emissions constraints so only about 21k carb Coopers were made. That makes them special, particularly the RSP. The RSP as well as being much rarer has more features: spotlights, half leather trim, sun roof, oil cooler. It also introduced bonnet stripes to the production Cooper, which the mainstream did not have. Bonnet stripes had been a feature of John Cooper's own team racing cars in the 50s and 60s. The RSP is the only Mini to have JC signatures on the stripes as standard. There is also a great RSP community thanks to Roger Hunt and the RSP Cooper Register.