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      07-04-2019, 06:15 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Love_Hounds View Post
MINI is really takin' a piss.
My wife LOVES her 2018 Clubman. It stickered for $41K, and I can assure you she would not be driving it had we not found a BMW exec car spec’d out the way she wanted it (with a real color and stick) for $10K off.

The fact is, these things are like Porsche when it comes to options. You are charged for everything, and it adds up FAST (at $41K her car STILL doesn't have a garage door opener?). One other fun fact: if you LOOK at her car the wrong way, it will ding. The metal is so damn thin.

So I do think that Mini is in trouble. It’s not that they make a bad car, but the price is simply out of control for what you get. It doesn't help that fun colors like Laser Blue are gone (at least from the Clubman), and finding a stick shift one is like spotting a snow leopard.
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