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by **thatoneguy5349** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:24 pm

I may be looking into buying a Mini Cooper S within the next few weeks, so just poking around here to find out anything I can about the Mini Cooper S's.

by **deemotored** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:36 am

You picked a good place to start! Also try [url]northamericanmotoring.com[/url]

Good luck!

by **thatoneguy5349** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:23 am

Who's the general technical know it all around here?

by **AZblackOUT** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:52 am

There's a few of us :wink:

by **th3118** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:10 pm

You may find this buyer's guide helpful:
http://www.motoringfile.com/mini-r50r53-buyers-guide/

by **MCS08** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:47 am

Welcome to the forum! Are you looking to buy new or used? I'm getting ready to put my 2008 MINI Cooper S with less than 20K miles up for sale VERY soon. I LOVE this car but life changes call for me to put family before MINI. Let me know if you're interested.

by **jmnicol** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:23 pm

I just bought my 2005 Cooper S private party through Craigslist. If you are patient, some really good deals will come down the pipe. I got mine for a killer deal, plus there is no AZ sales tax or dealer markup. Based on all my research, being in your shoes until recently, I would look for 2004 and up if buying used.

by **thatoneguy5349** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:56 am

I am most likely buying used. Thanks for all the responses. I come from a pretty active Mazda community and was hoping to find the same with the Mini's.

Anything I should know when looking for a Mini?

by **thatoneguy5349** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:08 am

MCS08 wrote:Welcome to the forum! Are you looking to buy new or used? I'm getting ready to put my 2008 MINI Cooper S with less than 20K miles up for sale VERY soon. I LOVE this car but life changes call for me to put family before MINI. Let me know if you're interested.

A 2008 would most likely be out of my price range but I am interested.

th3118 wrote:You may find this buyer's guide helpful:
http://www.motoringfile.com/mini-r50r53-buyers-guide/

Thanks checking it out!

by **thatoneguy5349** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:39 am

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?c ... dard=false

May go look at this soon

by **Louie B.** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:40 pm

Indi blue... my favorite MINI color ever!! I know Mark and Teresa went and checked this one out and test drove it, Hopefully they will ring in with their opinion. I know If I was MINI-less right now I would be taking a good, hard, serious look at that one!

by **azminiman** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:52 pm

Nice car. great shape. looks like the hood may have been repainted from rock chips... over all its nice. It seemed underpowered for a JCW. Priced too high in "my" opinion at the time we looked at it. The price is down from when we looked at it. but still on the high side. But it is MNS. (and please, its my opinion only, so please dont run elseware with it, i know how people can get).reguardless of the milage, its still a 04.

by **Louie B.** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:30 pm

I was at MNS today and that car was nowhere to be seen... may be sold.

by **Louie B.** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:33 pm

azminiman wrote:...Priced too high in "my" opinion at the time we looked at it. The price is down from when we looked at it. but still on the high side. ...reguardless of the milage, its still a 04.

Priced much lower than what I still owe on my non-JCW '03 that I've had for 2 1/2 years now. :roll:

by **danjmcs** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:34 am

The 04 JCWs didnt feel as strong as my non JCW 05 S, I think because the changed the first gear ratio starting in 2005 in the S manual tranny. So that may partially be why it feels not as strong as expected, though you feel some differences from S to S even in the same model year depending on software, etc.

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