R56 How long do you plan on keeping your MINI?
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Well I do have to elaborate! I hope to always have my Mini, and have one or two other cars. You see, every person I talk to says they regret selling their first car, and Coop is my first car. So, as long as I maintain it (which I am definetly doing!), that goal will eventually be reached. I hope to own the current day Mini in around 20 years, along with my then-classic R56!
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For a long time for sure. Its paid for. I'm looking to retire in 6 years. I may take a piece of my retirement pay out and buy something new then. Maybe a city car if they have it. Maybe a fiat 500, if they bring it here and it proves to be reliable, maybe another mini. Maybe just keep the one I've got longer.
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As long as possible....
The car is actually my wife's car, and as such it will only be driven 3,000 - 4,000 miles a year, tops.
If the car holds up mechanically and does not start to nickel and dime us to death I'd like to keep it for 25 years or so, at that point it would only have around 100k on it.
We usually keep cars a long, long time, her last car was 17 years old (we owned it for 12 years, bought it from my mom who bought it new), my Integra is coming up on 13 years old; I owned a Dodge Ram pickup (Mitsubishi built captive import) for 16 years.
The only cars I sell or trade before 10 years old or so are those that have turned out to be a POS....that would be two 80's GM products and a DSM (DSM = Mitsubishi/Chrysler coupes made from 1989 - 2002 or so).
The DSM I owned (it was a 1992 Eagle Talon) was by far the worst car I have ever owned, in the shop 8 times in 38,000 miles for MAJOR ISSUES like the timing belt breaking at 16,000, requiring a top end rebuild.
MINIs don't have the greatest rep for reliability but we're hoping to have a long happy relationship with ours.
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If the car holds up mechanically and does not start to nickel and dime us to death I'd like to keep it for 25 years or so, at that point it would only have around 100k on it.
We usually keep cars a long, long time, her last car was 17 years old (we owned it for 12 years, bought it from my mom who bought it new), my Integra is coming up on 13 years old; I owned a Dodge Ram pickup (Mitsubishi built captive import) for 16 years.
The only cars I sell or trade before 10 years old or so are those that have turned out to be a POS....that would be two 80's GM products and a DSM (DSM = Mitsubishi/Chrysler coupes made from 1989 - 2002 or so).
The DSM I owned (it was a 1992 Eagle Talon) was by far the worst car I have ever owned, in the shop 8 times in 38,000 miles for MAJOR ISSUES like the timing belt breaking at 16,000, requiring a top end rebuild.
MINIs don't have the greatest rep for reliability but we're hoping to have a long happy relationship with ours.
Analogeezer
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