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Brooklyn · Post by **Brooklyn** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:42 am

Hi everyone, a couple of months ago I was sure I was getting a mini but the more practical side of me took over and I bought a new Honda civic...
Thank you so much for inviting me into your forum... I will check it from time to time to see how things are going.. Drive safe everybody... Brooklyn..[/list]

saturn · Post by **saturn** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:40 pm

Has anyone responded to this person and told them how much motoring fun they're gonna miss out on?

kraydl · Post by **kraydl** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:08 pm

I'd say for two people the Mini's 37mpg is nicely practical.
For hauling around a family of 5 it's not.
My boys have their own cars, so I fall into the former category thankfully.

monza · Post by **monza** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:42 pm

kraydl wrote:I'd say for two people the Mini's 37mpg is nicely practical.
For hauling around a family of 5 it's not.

Neither is a Civic

Actually for us, family of 4, the Mini is just fine. My kids are 14 & 10, and they dont complain about the back seat on a saturday of running errands...

Big Papi · Post by **Big Papi** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:47 pm

Mine who still live at home are 6 and 10 and when we run errands or anythign in the city we take the R56 and nobody complains.

Post by **MiniManiac** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:24 pm

My two little girls absolutely love riding in the MINI and I absolutely love driving it!

kabootist · Post by **kabootist** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:16 pm

you must drive your mini really nicely to be getting 37mpg. Im lucky to get 30. Besides that my nefews and stuff love the mini, there is normally no one in the back. Seats stay folded up though because the JCW exhaust is quite loud without the seats and shelf.

dimini · Post by **dimini** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:38 pm

I think he's refering to R56 MINIs. An R53 w/JCW? MPG is not the reason to own one.

Big Papi · Post by **Big Papi** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:35 pm

much as I would like to say mine does not get that good, but I drive almost all city.

DDodge · Post by **DDodge** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:39 pm

I get about 30 in my 06 MCS on the highway, around 20 just driving around the neighborhood.

Don D

P.S. They are missing out on a ton of fun!