[trackbird]

My wife has been looking at Mini Cooper's lately. Unfortunately, the Mini dealer didn't want her VW very badly (50% depreciation in 1.5 years and 25k miles?).

It was wet out and I kept the test drive short, but I really liked it (Cooper S). Actually, I liked it more than I thought I really would. It could use a bit more power, but it wasn't a pig (it's not a Camaro either). The handling was reasonably crisp and it was a bit go cart like. I found myself thinking that I could possibly live with one of those as a daily driver. And, tires and such for autocross will be considerably cheaper than my current ride. I'm really thinking that I should take another look at these. It's small, and really rather fun to drive.

She won't be buying one for a while, but....I could probably sell the Z at this point..... :leaving:

[sgarnett]

I've said this before, but if I was a smart man I would have left my loaded Z28 stock (except for shocks and swaybars - I really can't stand the feel of stock shocks) and bought a stripper Formula as a race car. Now, if I bought a second car, the path of least resistance would be to use the stock, light, large fendered car as a street car, and the modified, heavy, power everything, small fendered car as the race car. Of course, the alternative is to de-mod the first car, as Mitch can painfully attest to. The stuff that involved drilling and/or welding would be difficult to undo, though.

This post has been edited by sgarnett: Jan 5 2006, 02:38 PM