BMW Mini - �27,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flip-flop]

On my cycle to work I pass a BMW dealership, and out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a Mini on the forecourt for �26,995. So, sad that I am, I did a u-turn to have a closer look, and sure enough it was up for the best part of �27k on a 55 plate.

Now, there's no denying it did look the business (for a girls car) - it had full leather trim and lovely black alloys, but my question is - �27,000 for a second hand mini? How?

[andy-hughes]

It's not a second-hand mini - it's a second-hand BMW mini, and about the only thing in common it has with the original design is the name and more-or-less the same shape. Everything else has high-end BMW specs., and that is reflected in the price. They are very popular, so their s/h value is high, hence the price tag.

Personally, I wouls pend that sort of money on a larger less-high-profile and therefore newer car, but as I said, they are very popular, and desireable, and so sell very well.

[Waggers]

It's probably a top end mini, possibly one of the John Cooper works. Will have been tuned in the factory to put out maybe 250bhp and will have all the toys!!!

[ThisSpace]

Yeh that is a hell of a wedge of cash for a Mini. I have just done a search on the internet, and found two cars above �25,000. They were both convertibles, in Kent and Surrey.

I had thought perhaps the one you saw was one of the new Mini GPs that they are making as a goodbye to this current shape mini. However, it couldn't have been one of those if it had a 55 plate.

I am very much an Audi fan, so consider the Mini just to be a very small BMW, and would definately not own one of those! heh heh.

A couple of years ago I saw a nearly new Audi S3 up at �30,995 at a dealer. Crazy money, given the basic price would have been about �23,000. You could have got a 3.0 A6 for that money!

[furrycheeky]

I had a BMW Mini brochure and added up all the available options. I could have purchased a Mini for �34,345 if I had wanted to!!