New-to-me CPO 2009 Mini

Martin Keogh · 02-15-2012, 03:47 PM

Hello,

Just bought Lucy, a new-to-me certified preowned 2009 Mini Cooper. Night fire red, sunroof, 6spd, leatherette, cd, very nice condition.

I enjoy driving her in traffic here in Atlanta 80mi/day between Dacula and Buckhead. She is amazingly fast in traffic, nimble, and returns incredible mpg for the speeds I travel. I'm averaging 38.6mpg combined on the trip computer/vacuum gauge, we'll see how accurate that is.

Too fast, too fun, for a non-S commuter car!

Hopefully I'll get time to turn up to a few Autox events here in the Southeast.

For now, I'm keeping her in near-stock condition, may look at a cat-back exhaust (if allowed - and not too loud, as I drive way too much for a loud buzzy exhaust), front wheels and sticky tires for Autox, and possibly a rear sway bar. More on that later, for now I'm not doing anything as I learn the car.

Having a blast - my wife and I fight over this car, it's too much fun.

As ever was...

Martin Keogh