Thinking about selling my 330Ci for a Cooper S

[DGI]

I've put 30K miles on my 2001 330Ci since i bought it a year and 6 months ago. I work in a restaurant and feel terrible driving it to work and not being able to enjoy it (70 hour weeks). That and the fact that i'm bored with it brings up the idea of changing it up.

My original idea was to just sell the car and get a MK III GTI VR6. But then the idea of losing certain creature comforts came into play so the Cooper popped into my mind.

I figured if i want speed i have my Mustang and for winter duty i have my Wrangler... i just need a fun/stylish daily driver.

What do you guys think?

[MandaBoo]

I love my MINI, but I'm not quite sure I understand your logic for selling your other car. You feel bad about not being able to have fun with your car, so you want to sell it and get another fun car? If it's b/c you're bored and simply want a change and you feel that the MINI is the right car for you, go for it. Just make sure that you are giving up your other car for the right reasons :)

[DGI]

i feel like the 330 is going to waste when i simply drive it to work and get in it at the end of the day with my dirty work clothes and just go home. That along with my desire for change is making me itch for options.

[sirtiger]

I don't understand the logic... so getting a MCS and using it as a commuter is less of a waste?

[MandaBoo]

I could see getting an MC as a dedicated commuter, but not an MCS. I use my MCS daily, but it is also my fun car to auto-x and eventually take to the track. The MC is still fun and spirited, but gets better mileage and the feelings of putting a car to waste wouldn't be AS bad. But selling your car to get an MCS b/c you don't want to be "wasting" a car just doesn't make any sense :shifty

[dandp]

I could see getting an MC as a dedicated commuter, but not an MCS.

Hmmmm....as a former Cooper ('02-'04) owner and defender of what many deem as the lowly base model - it's a great car to chuck around on the auto-x course and handles amazingly. Living in New Jersey, I see plenty of MC & MCS 's being used as daily commuters - being driven by what the MINI community would call "those who don't get it."

I think I can see where your coming from - plain old Cooper- more efficient, more likely to be used as a grocery getter, etc. I'm just saying I see plenty of both models being used in that capacity where I live.

If you're looking for change from the 330, the MINI will certainly give that to you. Great handling, cool looking car and when modded correctly - even more frightening in the handling department.

[MandaBoo]

I agree with you. The base Cooper is a great car in its own right. But, yeah, I was just intending that if he was wanting a car to get him form point A to point B and was interested in a MINI, that the Cooper's cost and better gas mileage might be more fitting.

But I also agree with you about those that "just don't get it". It kinda annoys me when I see people that just got the car b/c its cute but have no sense of community or try to experience how much fun the car can be. If I wave, they look at me like I'm an idiot and if I see a fellow MINI owner and ask them about things they've done to or with their car, they also look at me like I'm an idiot. I know its a car and they don't make you go through an interview process to get one, but it's sad that some people don't know the fun they could be having. But then I go to a MINI gathering like at the Dragon and I realize that I'm not alone :)

[///MINI]

I would say to heck with logic and just scratch that itch! Motor among us, buddy! We are an eclectic group. There is a weird comraderie among the MINI drivers that can only be likened to my old group of M Roadster compadres. When you encounter another MINI driver and he/she gives you the wave of acknowledgement, it's as if you both are in on the joke that nobody else gets. That joke would be the fact that our cars are loaded with plenty fun in a package a fraction of the size of most other vehicles out there. It's like being a kid on a Big Wheel all over again.

[Juan ///M325]

Mine is for sale and I'm local. Check your pm. I'm moving to Florida, so
I don't need a commuter car anymore.

[Juan ///M325]

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