Hmmmmmmm
The kind of people who spend time doing engine analysis probably aren't the kind of people who drive MINIs to be honest.
Probably 95% of the people who buy them do so for three main reasons;
a) they like the look of them both inside and out.
a) they love the way they drive for the One the go kart like handling and for the Cooper and MCS the go kart like aceleration and the handling.
c) they know they are going to get a quality product (which despite the odd niggle has in the main proved very reliable) which comes with a servicing package, great residuals and backed up with the BMW name and network.
I suspect that most people who sat down with pen and paper and worked out all the statistics, compared parts prices, fuel consumption, insurance per horse power, speed of electric windows, availablity of aftermarket automatic bum wipers and mirror dice would choose very similar cars, probably; Jag X-Types, Mundaneos or BMW 5 series but most people don't make their choices like that, they price up what they can afford, go and look at cars, test drive a few and either fall with one or have a couple of favorites and then start the analysis. This I feel is why there are more than three car manufacturers with more than 3 models between them :/
MB
The kind of people who spend time doing engine analysis probably aren't the kind of people who drive MINIs to be honest.
Probably 95% of the people who buy them do so for three main reasons;
a) they like the look of them both inside and out.
a) they love the way they drive for the One the go kart like handling and for the Cooper and MCS the go kart like aceleration and the handling.
c) they know they are going to get a quality product (which despite the odd niggle has in the main proved very reliable) which comes with a servicing package, great residuals and backed up with the BMW name and network.
I suspect that most people who sat down with pen and paper and worked out all the statistics, compared parts prices, fuel consumption, insurance per horse power, speed of electric windows, availablity of aftermarket automatic bum wipers and mirror dice would choose very similar cars, probably; Jag X-Types, Mundaneos or BMW 5 series but most people don't make their choices like that, they price up what they can afford, go and look at cars, test drive a few and either fall with one or have a couple of favorites and then start the analysis. This I feel is why there are more than three car manufacturers with more than 3 models between them :/
MB
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