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You guys raise a good point around reliability. Mini claim that this new redesign was in part to address reliability concerns. Hard to substantiate. This would be my first "luxury brand" vehicle. Prior cars are nissans and subarus. Pretty basic vehicles. Will look carefully at leasing in case she turms into a Lemon....the extra interest cost might easily be crushed by expensive reairs. If the cars turns out to be pretty solid and we want to keep it, we can just buy it out at the end of the lease.

The new model is REALLY nice and a major improvement over the old model in terms of dynamics and fit and finish