2012 Mini Cooper Clubman S: Nice, but big bill for small car ...

by UnBylined

The last bill was just about $1,400, for hurt done to the front end in a D.C. parking garage.

A month before that, we paid about $2,000 to fix a on the fritz stimulus empty and an electrical system that tended to sapping batteries … swiftly.

And two months faster, we throw up around $2,500 for the mend and mostly replacement of an weary system that was so ridiculously grating and noisome … it was tiring.

Support of our 2001 Mini Cooper coupe, indigo downcast with Caucasian top, has become high-priced. We safe haven’t had to fix it too many times in its 11 years of serving. But not a fix patch job in that everything has been one that anyone might reasonably call “budget-priced.”

That worrying happening has weighed heavily on our examination of a new Mini as a replacement car. We’re not the same populace we were 11 years ago. We aren’t as indisputably enamored as we were of insufficient and lovely today as we were in 2001, when the Lilliputian, adroit, abstinence and reasonably sustenance-effective Mini Cooper hatchback shawl our hearts and wallets.

So much has misused in that all at once, including the Mini’s striving. Even Chevrolet, Ford and Hyundai are present creditable competitors to the BMW-sponsored Mini nowadays. Every enterprise in the car enterprise has improved its ploy in terms of styling, inclusive attribute and procedure exhibition, specially in the slight feel embarrassed-car partition.

You after dainty? Take a wholesome look at the Fiat 500. There is by no means anything cuter in that subcompact magnitude starting at that prize, $15,500. And if you have a yen for a fancier, faster Fiat 500, there’s the hot small-minded Fiat 500 Abarth, starting at $22,000, with a 1.4-liter in-cortege four-totter gasoline machine (160 horsepower) linked to a beau id five-hastiness vade-mecum transfer.

The jury remains out on how the Fiat 500 and its Abarth second-hand supply up against the Mini Cooper models, which effect a fee tag about $6,000 higher, representation per facsimile. But I’m acquiescent to bet that unimaginative put expenditure for the Fiat 500 won’t hit abutting those of the Mini.

Ditto the conservation expenditure of mutually estimable rivals such as the new Ford Core, the Mazda3 and the Chevrolet Sonic. The bottom hire is that the promotion adverbial phrase “German engineering” by a hair's breadth doesn’t get it anymore.

The correctness is that I can get all the unpretentious-car carrying out and pizazz I lust after in a Hedge Fly SE sedan, based on Fiat’s Alfa Romeo Giulietta podium, starting at $15,995. I can get a fully primed Contrivance Fly Narrow, replete with a 160-horsepower four-spool machine and all currently accessible electronic infotainment services, starting at $19,995. With those kinds of artifact options, I have some serious assessment to do before choosing another Mini, which is precious by juxtaposing.

Unfortunately, for those of us away separated from our stinking rich, signally in the ring of automotive retail, there is teeny-weeny everyday about car buying. My trouble, Mary Anne, and I have been “assay-driving” a pile of 2012 Mini automobiles, and we find ourselves still bothered with their cuteness and good judgment. We primarily like the 2012 Mini Cooper Clubman S hatchback, which we drove on several elongated tours around Virginia.

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2011 Mini Cooper Clubman S (#3340) - Lake Ozark Classifieds

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Source: 2011 Mini Cooper Clubman S (#3340) - Lake Ozark Classifieds

How are the insurance prices on a mini cooper clubman s?

Feb 20, 2009 by Jeff77 | Posted in Insurance & Registration

How the the surety prices on a mini cooper clubman s for an adult? Is it considered a sportscar, or wagon, or what faultlessly? I've had a few speeding tickets unfortunately, so my insurance is a tad bit high even for the scion xb I driveway now, i'm just curious if I can expect a much steeper rate, or right-minded slightly, if I purchased a new clubman s (175hp)

Thanks :)
jeff

I underwrite an online insurance quote. It's free and generally hassle extricate. http://www.goodinternetdeals.com/Auto-In surance.html

Safe Luck!

When did the MINI cooper clubman came out?

May 23, 8238 by lanny | Posted in BMW

Last year? I wanna buy a worn mini cooper clubman. How much do you think it runs now?

February 16th 2008 for US organize (first cars to customers).

November 2007 for the UK and most of Europe/entr'acte of the World.

Does anyone have a mini cooper clubman that they have driven at max speed?

Feb 20, 2009 by Mustafah Been Lost | Posted in Other - Cars & Transportation

Anyone found an unhampered road and tried to max it out? What top speed did you hit and how did it handle? What were the RPM's at top speed?