Just purchased my first mini almost 1 month ago. The weather has not been nice to say the least. It's a used 2009 JCW. It looks like it was loved by it previous 2 owner.
The mini came with performance summer tires. Did not have it in the budget to buy snow tires right away.
I bought used ones from someone posting here. I just got my "winter mini," a clubman, 2 months ago. Didn't have the money to get new ones either. They have 2 seasons of wear, but work perfectly at less than half the price of new.
Did a little housekeeping since there were two threads. Moved all posts to the thread with 2 images, deleted duplicate posts and then deleted thread with single image.