[dthompson]

After months of waiting, my Dooper is ready for collection tomorrow

Before you ask, spec is...

• Chili Red with White Bonnet Stripes & Roof&Mirror Caps in White
• Cloth / Leather Ray Carbon Black
• CHILI Pack (Alloys, sports seats etc) PLUS
• Multi-func. Steering Wheel
• Exterior Mirror Pack
• Comfort Access
• Chrome-Line Interior
• Visibility Pack
• Front Centre Arm Rest
• Sport Button
• Automatic Air Conditioning

It's a bit of a change for me as my current car is a Grande Voyager - you could fit the Mini in the back!

Fingers crossed it all goes to plan tomorrow.

[nickschin]

Sounds good to me

[ASTON]

Sleepless night ahead

[dthompson]

Quote: Originally Posted by ASTON (original)

Sleepless night ahead

True - I'm worse than a kid at Christmas, haven't slept for weeks!

[LeakyTurnip]

I know how you feel, I picked up my Dooper last Saturday...it was a horrible wait.

Hope all goes well for you and don't forget to take some pic's and post them for us!

[Nebdingo]

Enjoy it fella!

[supa-dupa-cooper]

Have fun with it!!

I ordered mine just over a week ago!

[I love MINI, Laura]

Oh congrats! Pics asap! Good luck tomorrow! Its very exciting time!

[dthompson]

[minisoopercooper]

looks great - are you impressed?

[I love MINI, Laura]

OHohohoh conrats! Shes stunning! Let us know what you think.

[humph]

Congratulations she looks great. What do you think then? Regret the move away from the Grand Voyager?

[Paul]

Very nice. Congratulations.

[Sooper J]

Oooo looks great, enjoy.

[ASTON]

enjoy mate

[CC07ERS]

nice new motar , there

[Japper]

Looking goooooooooood

[dthompson]

Okay, so she's home and I've had chance to drive her over my lunch break!, she needs a name of course, but I'll mull over that for a while.

So now for the Good , the Bad and the Ugly

Good first - She's certainly nippy, more than enough pull for me, and combined with fantastically tight / responsive steering, she'll pull away from junctions with consumate ease and a little bit of flair! Suprisingly the sport button makes a lot of difference - took me a bit by suprise that - steering felt a lot tigher still and the gas just made it shift.

Road holding / handling is good - you get the feeling that you could throw the car around any corner and it would stay planted to the road.

She looks good; interior is nicely put together, no major rattles or creaks. Chrome line interior is well worth it too.

Comfort access is fun - walk straight out of the house, into car and off without even touching keys. Seems responsive enough to opening / locking.

Standard radio is better than I thought - just tweaked bass / treble, put in MP3 CD no problems. It's more than enough for my old ears.

Best of all - It's fun - perhaps that's all in the mind, but I enjoyed it for what it is!

Now for the Bad - Well at the moment, nothing too bad at all! The road vibration is a lot more noticable than the Voyager, but that could comfortably run over road humps with little effect! The suspension is very hard for a standard setup, pretty much every lump is transferred to the cabin, but for the moment, I actually quite like that. I'm quite glad I didn't go for sports suspension!

The auto stop - start is very good, but felt very conspiquous in the centre of town - I'm sure the passers by thought I'd stalled. Easy enough to turn off / not use (just don't release the clutch), but I'm going to stick with it for a while. It did make me jump though - I'd parked up to read the manual, the car turned itself off so I started reading away and it suddently turned itself on (air con I guess).

As for the Ugly - that's just me - the Driver; not even significant surgery could fix that!

I'm off out again for another drive after work...

[McMuffin]

She looks great, enjoy

Nice report btw

[LeakyTurnip]

Sound's like your happy! Beautiful car, all the best with it!