MINI Cooper S – small, tight fit and not a lot of boot space either, but who’s complaining? Not me.
There’s a guy in a Porsche Carrera 4S that clearly doesn’t like the fact that the MINI Cooper S has just flogged him through a tight little section on my standard test drive route.
For some odd reason it’s been way too long since my last road test of one of these ‘hot’ MINI Coopers. The last time was more than a few years ago, when I was privileged to take ex-formula racer Warwick Brown on a hot lap of the Pier One area in a John Cooper Works special edition. That was early on a Sunday morning and Warwick stepped out of the car and said he was buying one, just like that.
That’s what a drive in a MINI Cooper S can do to you, because there simply isn’t another car on the road that offers this much fun behind the wheel. That’s despite the fact that the cons probably outweigh the pros, at least from various practicality aspects.
The MINI Cooper is small, very small. Thankfully though, it’s about twice the size of the original car designed by Sir Alec Issigonis. Even so, if we were talking apartments – this would be a studio. While there’s not a lot of elbowroom between driver and front passenger, there’s even less legroom for rear-seat passengers, but it’s fine for kids though. In the rear cargo space, you might just be able to squeeze in the weekly grocery shopping – but that’s only if you don’t have kids.
