just 30 minutes ago i took my 1293 for a spin along some country roads, hilly and twisty.. and i feel like yeh I'm hammering along, flying.. look in my rear view mirror - an mx5 (miata) just cruising along, keeping up no sweat. look at my speedo, only going 40mph!!
but who had the bigger smile?
i know people have already said this etc etc etc and i know ill probably get slagged off in a second but i dont reeeaaaally care. ill just say what i want to say and be gone.
i think this man has got it. no one on here has been slagging off minis. IMO the members who have been accused of this are just being realistic. and to be honest most of them are older more experienced members than the ones who are telling them to f off.
i dont know why people take it so offencively, but minis are generally slow. you can have a 1380 and easily have over 100bhp etc, but at the end of the day your still going to get shat on by a wrx or an sti. and as someone else on here has said, they thought they were going really well...until an old couple in a deawoo cruised past. it takes serious serious money to get a mini to be a truely fast car by modern standards. and that nearly always involves an engine transplant because, lets be honest, the mini and a-series design is 50 years old now. you just cant really expect them to be quick without really serious work.
and back to what sixtyeight said, ive done similar things in my woefully slow 998, but i really dont care and can admit that. because for the majority of mini's, their job isnt to be fast or to beat performance cars, even with a performance a-series in them. its just to feel like a go kart and put a huge smile on your face all day long.
my mum always said id get rid of my mini because it would be too slow for me and id want something much faster. she is very much wrong! because i can admit and im happy in myself that no matter what i do, its never going to be a particularly fast car, but nothing made me smile or feel happy like that car did. so all of you who say im not a mini purist for posting this and im slagging off mini's, dont waste your time! that is not me!
unfortuantely i had an accident in my mini and im not embaressed to say i have cried many many tears over what i have done to my pride and joy. but im not going to give up on her. and she will be rebuilt, slowly but surely into a great little car again. and i decided straight away its not going to be a quick repair and back on the road job. she's going to be off the road for years, and everything done to the highest quality, just the way i want her. im planning to put in a fast road 1293. i know its not going to be particularly quick compared to modern cars, compared to 2.0l deawoo's, wrx's, sti's, std's, i dont care. its just something i want to do and itll give her a bit more poke. you can breeze past me in your deawoo or your ferrari, because im quite happy where i am, in the slow lane with all the time in the world to appreciate my mini, thank you very much
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