Used MINI For All
In terms of legacy, reputation and cult appeal, there are few more popular cars than that of the MINI. Ever since the film ‘The Italian Job’ starring Michael Caine and Noel Coward proved to be an enormous hit with moviegoers everywhere, the MINI’s popularity has grown and grown at a truly remarkable rate. However, the popularity of this small, user friendly car was put at risk when the MINI was acquired by BMW and the design changed to a large extent. The purist MINI fans were obviously not very pleased as they felt the classic style of the car had been homogenised and removed from the kind of amazing cult domain it had been housed in for many years. However, those of us who had admired the MINI from afar enjoyed the way the image had been brought up to date. In addition to this it now housed a galactically more reliable and powerful BMW motor was also a massive plus.
It seemed that a great number of others shared this opinion and the popularity of the MINI once again soared, as did the prices. For a car of its size, to say the price was slightly steep would be the most grandiose exaggeration in the world. I am not meaning to imply that you don’t get value for money, but when you’re paying over £10,000 you want something a little…bigger, perhaps. Nevertheless, the units kept driving off the forecourts and continue to sell in great numbers despite the terrible economic climate we find ourselves in.
I, however, discovered a way to save money and still end up with a superbly attractive MINI. The trick is to buy a Used MINI. Now we all know that the depreciation of these vehicles is incredibly biased toward the seller as they can charge relatively high prices and still guarantee a sale due to the vehicles popularity, but there are still bargains to be had.
Just last weekend I spotted a Used MINI advertised for a very small £7,000 and only had 30,000 miles on the clock. For the kind of quality you are getting, this looked slightly too good to be true. I decided to check the car out for myself and sure enough there were a few bumps and scratches and the tyres needed replacing, but all in all it looked like a very fair price, for a very good car indeed.
In the current supermini market, so many companies are peddling out the same homogenised ideas and designs that it is getting hard to find a truly individual car. An example of this would be the Ford Ka, Citroen C1 and the Toyota iQ all sharing the same building platform. I am therefore very glad that a car with the Used MINI take on individuality still exists when car manufacturers are increasingly herding each other into the same pit of identikit car shapes and styles.
If you are interested in finding a car that continues to buck the trends set by the majority of car manufacturers then you should check out a Used MINI.
