News about my new Mini Cooper :D (page 2)

misspeaches

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Good one Elsewhere! You'll be cool as zipping about in your new car. I love new cars and their new car smell.... sniiiiiiiiff!

Don't forget to post your pics of your fancy new car!!! And I wanna see a big old bow on it too!

Elsewhere

Else, did you get the S or non blown version?

I went with the base, non-supercharged model. When I started shopping for a car I had a certain maximum I was willing to pay for a car and the S was just more than I was willing to pay. If I buy another mini after this one is paid off I will likely go with the turbo charged (The '07 models will be turbocharged instead of supercharged). Even without the supercharger the Mini Cooper is an amazingly fun car to drive... With the supercharger it is insanely fun! I was riding in a supercharged one the other day and the guy was able to spin the tires in third gear going almost 50 MPH. When accelorating at full throttle you can't help but hold on tight with your eyes bugged out. The way base Mini and the Supercharged version handle the corners is unbelievable. You'd never think you could do a 90* turn into a parking lot at 50 MPH... until you do it in a Mini with little or no effort. The car is literally designed from the ground up to handle hard corners. Even though it is one of the smallest cars in the US it has one of the largest wheel bases. The wheels are push as far out to the corners as possible.