As a former R53 owner, I completely disagree. These are just as unreliable as the other Minis - they all are unreliable. This generation compounds that by having first-gen problems.

I had an ‘05 S convertible for a few years. It was reliable in that it always started and never left me stranded. But it needed parts far more frequently than any car I’ve ever owned. Motor mounts, various gaskets, anything that holds a fluid, even the little toggle switches had a tendency to snap off on hot days.

Having owned one of these I can say with out a doubt it was the most unreliable car I ever owned. I traded it in @ 60k miles because of the constant major issues it had.

Man . . . I WANT to like this, but the red flags are flying. Just rebuilt and already it’s up for sale. Uh-oh. Cheap respray? Uh-oh times two.

Thank you!

This sounds like a great plan. Let’s talk when (okay, if) I get to Italy!

If you decide you want to bring it back stateside, I did not ship a vehicle over when I came to Italy, so I do still have a free vehicle shipment if needed. It’s old enough to ship unmodified, and It will definitely pass the inspections on base (I just so happen to do those). It would have to wait until I leave in…

The Republican Party has been trying to dismantle the USPS for nearly 40 years. My old man worked for them for 40 years and when he retired, he was only allowed to collect 20% of what he paid into SS because Ronnie Reagan and company didn’t allow “double dipping-collecting a “federal” pension and gaining full SS…

It’s kind of amazing to see how Republicans have basically devoted themselves to completely tearing apart our entire civilization. I know we all understand that but every now and then it hits me all over again. I mean...the post office? Is there anything else in our culture that has touched absolutely every American…

Shame they won't be able to get their mail in ballot in the hospital

Yeah, I know. I just really feel sorry for the folks who live along there. They all decided “Hey, let’s take a break from it this year for everyone’s safety” and these jackasses have to take it upon themselves to invade the neighborhood anyway, because they feel like it’s their “right” to do so. And you KNOW that any…

Hopefully the “fuck you, Im infecting you anyway” mentality of the ‘Rona virus will strike these old feeble smooth brained idiots so they can’t vote in November.

I feel like they really missed their chance with the naming. It could’ve been “MAGA Klassic Kar Kruise” to really round it out and embrace the culture.

Wouldn’t it be funny if the communities got together and closed the street for “emergency sewer repair” that day?

I’m a dual citizen. My mom is from Munich; she and my dad live near Nuremberg (my dad is a retired army soldier working on a base over there). The primary purpose of this trip, and any trip I take to Germany, is to spend time with them (though of course, I’m excited about this van trip, too).

So much supremacy. I’m getting tired of all the supremacy. Can’t even go out to eat now without some big-bellied, stick’n’poke, sweaty-assed mud-butt shaking his acorn in peoples’ faces. They call it supreme and it don’t even come with sour cream. It is just mayo. Lord, lord. This is the best you got? This guy and…

Edit to add: who has swastika shit just lying around their house to make masks out of?

The Associated Press reports that they were banned from all Walmart stores for at least a year.

Some people think that wearing face masks to help prevent the spread of a modern plague is tantamount to fascism.

Hey Maw? ‘Member how in Nazi Germany Hitler made all dem Hitler Youth dress up an wear Swastikas n shit? An ‘member how he made them march in formation an yell hi-yel Hitler n all that?

I guess you could say that was right on Time...