What do you hate about driving your mini?

I'm 6'6", the most common question i get is "how do you fit in that"
my answer is always, "i open the door, and get in, it works everytime"

 

the fog lights were an option still when i bought mine, so i only got the front ones, as i thought, and still think, that rear fog lights are useless. so the salute once in awhile for sure...

 

This! Unless I'm with a MINI group...

 

Driving long distances on Texas Interstates. Long, straight, boring and marginally maintained stretches of roadway full of idiots and 18-wheelers.

Yeah, the speed limits are 75, but it is not a good 75. My MINI isn't geared to do 75 for four hours. I end up getting the gas milage of much bigger car.

Then there are the trucks. I won't drive I-45 or I-35 at night, because I want to be able to see the biggass truck tire carcasses in the middle of my lane in time to go around them.

From Dallas to Austin/San Antonio, I take the longer two-lane country roads. It takes longer, but the scenery is a lot nicer, there are some curves to break the monotony, and I encounter a whole lot less debris on the roads. There is also some darn good BBQ along the way. Dallas to Houston doesn't offer as many good side-road options.

So, as much as I love driving my MINI, I tend to rent a car when I need to take to the Interstates. That is usually for business, so I can bill the rental to my customers.

CD

 

i find i get great gas mileage when i set the cruise control to 80 on long trips. when i first got the car, i went from Denver to Billings on one tank of gas, about 550 miles one way

 

I said my wife hates the ride. So "we" go mostly place in her Focus ST.
I am changing from 18" to 17" wheels and eventually Koni yellows. Yup it's lowered with Swifts.

 

Bug splats and road grime...

...although a leisurely detailing after every drive of any distance is a favorite pastime. :wink:

 

I hate having to decide what one of them I am taking out on the weekends, what one I'm going to work on, and what one I like more...

 

I added rear fog lights recently, and wired them into the brakes. People know when I tap the brakes.

mmmyep.

http://www.outmotoring.com/mini-cooper/R56_mini_cooper_rear_fog_lamp_kit.html

http://www.outmotoring.com/add-a-brake-light-wiring-kit.html

 

The thing I hate most about driving my MINI is having to drive with the top up. Oh...and getting out of the car.

 

I don't hate this necessarily, but I had an idiot once ask me if my Classic was legal to drive on the streets... Here's your sign!

 

Yah I felt that way too for quite some time, until I grew to dislike the nucleas of that MINI group. We have long since parted ways.

 

:lol:

A young girl told me not to forget to turn off my engine as I was getting out of my car at the store - she mistook the sound of the turbo timer. I felt badly because my initial reaction was to giggle...she was just trying to be helpful...

 

hate the seat belts, always want to get jammed between seat and door.

 

I don't like being asked "how do you fit in there" I'm not unusually large. It's nothing more than an annoying attempt at a passive aggressive insult from the gas station attendant.

 

I absolutely HATE getting to my destinations and having to shut off my [3]MINIs. I love to drive them, as each has its own characteristics and look.