[Wynn]

Has someone driven a MINI over road humps? I'm curious to know how the car handles going over these-- with its very long wheel base and short overhangs, it seems possible that you might be able to race over them in speeds that would grind the front end off other cars, but I'm uncertain.

For those of you not in the U.S. who might have different vocabulary for such things, I do not mean a "speed bump," which is a short, high bump used to slow traffic in a parking lot; a "road hump" is instead a long (eight feet), shallow hump, like a wide hill in the road, used to keep traffic at slower speeds in a residential neighborhood. If you go over them too quickly, the front end of your car nose dives into the pavement on the other side... but, a bicycle can rip right over them at 25mph and literally almost not notice them, because the bicycle's wheel base is short relative to the length of the hump, and long relative to the length of the bike, which has no overhanging body to dip forward.

Makes me think you might be able to zip over these things in a MINI. Has someone tried?