Which one...

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...or neither?

Ok so I've been looking at getting a new car for a while my main criteria being something fun, I won't be using it to do tons of miles or anything, so far my 2 top choices are a Mini CooperS or a 172 FF, I know a bit of a difference in price, 10k limit if I went for the Mini so looking at general prices I'm guessing I'd save 3-4k going for the Clio, however after having driven both (nothing major each of them where friends cars so wasn't being a nutter) I enjoyed driving the Mini more plus I like the styling of it more (though that 3-4k saving on a Clio almost makes them equal again :)) - so question is which would you guys go for or would you have something totally different in mind?

Thanks.

P.S. My original plan was to get an RX7 but after a few insurance quotes I decided I didn't want to pay the £1300+ in insurance they wanted so dropped that idea - so Jap import suggestions are probably out :)
 
Money aside, that's a tough one as they're both very good little 'hot' hatches. IIRC you can up the power in a Cooper S to about 200bhp or so I think, make sure it's on 16's though as the ride suffers on 17's from what I've read.


Others I might consider, if I were in the same position might be a CTR or possibly a DC5 at the top of your budget. Or maybe a Cupra?
 
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