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Originally Posted by petrolhead611
The BMW minis are so superior to the old Minis, as is to expected as the original Mini came out in '59. They were rotboxes, with leaky engines and little room to work thereon, and G-d help you in a front end crash.. Modern Minis do not have a bad reliability reputation in the UK, and there are zillions of them here.
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I confess that I have not driven the new Mini over here. I just think that the old Mini's (and possibly the new) are not as suited for a cold climate. My old Mini was good in the summer over here but in winter lacked heat and the accelerator would stick open occasionally.
There seems to be a problem with Mini's old and new that once they cross the Atlantic the quality(or suitability) is not there. Plus new Mini's are really expensive new. I would like to think that the new Mini would have enhanced quality over time but according to this forum that does not seem to be the case. Do they really cold weather test the new Mini in the Arctic?
There is not the clearance in a Mini(old or new) to drive over deep snow so really it is not a good winter car. Similarly Porsche ads have shown a 911 or Boxster driven in winter but they don't clear the snow either and end up being a snow plow scraping the underside of the car.
My mother's 1970 Mini with auto trans. was a great car in the UK. Very suitable for the UK and its climate.