I think you all missed a good bet - why not a Mini Cooper? Hatchback, check. Fun to drive in the twisties? Check. Room for the odd whatever? Yes, the rear seats fold down to make an amazing amount of space. Good fuel mileage, turbo power, 6 speed automatic with paddle shifters - all you need to have a great time…

Max did not have a puncture - he thought he did - but it turned out he ran over debris which lodged in his floor, and losing about 20% or the car’s downforce.

How about we go to the source of the problem? The driver! Better driver training before getting a license to start with would make a huge difference.

For those who don’t live near the coasts but instead here in the great flyover, NW Arkansas is a great driving experience - plenty of twisty, curvy up and downs and lite to no traffic unless you’re in the more touristy areas....and a few miles away from there you’re golden again. Southern Missouri also has some…

My Innocenti, freshly washed and ready to come home from the paintshop.....

Why is it that my replies don’t show up to anyone but me? Why are some greyed out and others readable? I’ve been a reader since the site began, and tho I don’t post a lot I would do more if I thought anyone would read them! Can you fix this?

Any classic Mini with the “magic wand” shifter, also known in England as “the puddin stirrer”......

You can require the most stringent tests ever devised, but it doesn’t mean that once out on the road people will follow the rules.....

I think a lot of people forget to lube the gasket - with oil, not spit!

sounds to me like a bad ground connection....,,.

I get the “expensive” part, but who says the V-10 is fragile? 

BTW, how does one get promoted out of the greys?

Driven. Sly Stallone as a washed up Indy car driver? Oh the angst!!!

I was 10 or 11, the fuel pump had failed on our 58 Mercury wagon and I got to change it with my dad and uncle (who owned a shop) watching......but I did it. From then on it was down the rabbit hole - the next spring I rebuilt the engine in my source of income - my 2.5HP Craftsman lawnmower. Dad bought the new rings…

Here in Kansas, we have the 20 mph on-ramp meander, culminating in either a panic stop at the end when the driver looks over and realizes there’s a semi right where he/she wants to merge, or the oblivious sashay into the right lane followed by the equally oblivious wander into the left lane - all at 20-30 mph......

Can someone explain why there’s a foot of air between the rear tire and the seat?

I’m surprised they can drive it at this length, let alone longer - aren’t over the road trucks limited to 85 ft length?

Just spent a week off and on replacing the plastic thermostat on my 2009 Cooper S - it has 6 hoses and 2 sensors on it, costs about $150 and in the process of removing it from the cross pipe that goes from the T-stat to the back of the water pump you usually break the plastic cross pipe too - however you don’t know…

Maybe it’s because I grew up with them, but many of the problems others have mentioned were no biggie to me.....one thing I don’t mind that has been replaced tho are points and condensers. Most were difficult to even see let alone reach and it was SO easy to drop the tiny little mounting screws into the dizzy....never…

Floriduh man exercising his freedumbs