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Ugghhh - Mini Conve...

Ugghhh - Mini Convertibles......

winston · 2024-04-03T09:46:15Z

You think you know your wife and that she's on the same page as you and then this! So she is obviously having a mid life crisis and has set her heart on a Mini convertible. Being a sane male individual who has spent a lifetime hauling bikes, windsurfers, surfboards and ladders around I've obviously never given any car which can't take a roofrack a second glance so know nothing about them. She won't be dissuaded by logic and so I need to know a couple of things. I've found out that even more usefully than not having a roof, the latest model can't even take a towbar......FFS!! how crap is this car? But I have seen a propitiatory bike rack that appears to screw in to the back somehow. Does anyone have experience of this? There seems to be very little info out there on how it works and which models it fits. Though this will be her car (like I'm ever going to drive it) there will be times when it would be useful to hang my bike off the back and I can't see any other way of doing it. Secondly, if anyone is unfortunate enough to have one of these abominations, has it been reliable and does anyone have naything useful to say about which engines or specs are best - she is more interested in luxury (leather heated seats etc) than performance and deffo not racing stripes and turbo nonsense.... Help me! EDIT: Forgot to say it will be a secondhand purchase