How do you know?

They are indeed, but they don’t meet my above-stated requirement of being available for <$35K. I cross-shopped the C70 and found it to have a very outdated interior, a high price and high maintenance/repair costs. My Mini effectively IS 3-series under the skin, but with a much more spacious cabin (I literally can’t…

I too love my Mini drop top. I came back to it (and a stick) after a brief and instantly-regretted flirtation with a VW Eos. Worst car purchase I’ve ever made.

I don’t go out of my way to annoy environmentalists.

These scum went to court to argue that toddlers in their kiddie koncentration kamps didn’t deserve toothbrushes - are we really surprised that they won’t give them flu shots? Hell, most American citizens have to pay for flu shots out of their own pocket if their insurance doesnt cover it (assuming they even have…

Woohoo - this is ticking all my boxes!

That it would be a finger in the eye of the environmentalists would just be icing on the cake.

You can buy a 2015-2016 Audi A3 2.0T Quattro with 220 HP, 30k miles, and nicer everything for less money than this.

I will only drive a convertible and I need to carry my kid and often my wife in one every day. I only look at 4-seat convertibles and there are a limited number of them out there for less than $35K. This cross-shops with the Mustang, the Mini, a Jeep, the Chrysler 200 and not a whole hell of lot else. I won’t take a…

VW Eos and all VWs in general. Never before have I experienced such a horribly-built nightmare of a vehicle. Never before have I seen a case of massive engineering resources poured into a vehicle that still was not fit for purpose. Seriously - how do you spend that much time and money to engineer an elaborate hardtop…

Counterpoint: the Metro was just about the best starter car a young adult could have. I inherited my brothers well-used 1988 Chevy Sprint 1n 1991 and drove the hell out of it for the next four years. It had a tiny, gas-sipp8ng engine that even a broke college student could afford to feed and parts that were dirt cheap…

I hate SUVs in general, hate overprice luxo-barge SUVs even more and I firmly believe in the maxim that ‘nothing is more expensive than a cheap German car.’ This thing isn’t even that cheap, has enough miles on it that multiple systems and components are all about to fail expensively, get’s shitty mileage despite the…

Yeah, dropping the top in less than a minute without getting  out is kind of important to me. But I do appreciate the suggestion!

I don’t believer the Eos was ever offered in the US with a manual transmission, but the earlier models may have been. That would have solved a lot of the problems I had with the laggy slushbox in mine. The styling wasn’t really that big a deal, it was the endless mechanical failures that soured me on it and on VWs in…

Counterpoint: I bought one and I am a middle-aged man. My thinking was that while I loved my 2005 Mini convertible I found the ride a bit harsh. I traded it for a minivan when my daughter was born (Mazda5 - best car investment I’ve ever made) and when she was able to crawl in and out on her own I traded in my wife’s…

I don’t do any of my own wrenching, but I love little convertibles and I have a friend who DOES wrench. If this was anywhere near me and I could get it for under 3K I’d be very interested. Could be a fun little weekend runabout!

You are simply wrong, sir. My convertible Mini Cooper and I disagree entirely, as does my 6-year-old daughter who enjoys the wind in her hair from the back seat.

The problem with the Eos is that it was priced just below an Audi A4 convertible and out of the range of the standard ‘bitch-basket’ customer. Especially since the convertible Beetle was being sold right next to it for considerably less money and more charm (if you like that sort of thing). If you were seriously…

Thank you - tha lack of a mileage is what made me give it a CP vote. That and fitting into a Lotus is almost impossible for me. 

The most boring SUV ever made. It's like they stopped caring about anything during the design phase.  Everything was aggressively mediocre  including 5h AC which could barely cool the car when on full blast. Admittedly, I was driving through Death Valley in July which would tax any car's AC, but it was particularly…