George J
Herefordshire member
I do like this little eighteen year old Mini One. The first car I actually liked since my Volvo 240, which I parted with more than ten years ago.
I will agree that the steering is a slightly acquired taste ... but it is precise and predictable.
This evening I took it out for a short run on the lights. It has a very good dipped beams and wonderful full beam. Generally I hate driving in the dark, but these lights are well enough planned and built to allow comfortable night driving. The last car I had with lights this good was the Volvo, and that was made way back in 1989. It surprises me how many cars have lights that are either too bright [so the risk is of the car coming towards you cannot see enough to avoid the curb and bouncing into you], or so poor a dipped beam pattern that you really can see nothing beside the headlights coming towards you. Cars I have owned with bad lights include Nissan Micra [noddy car shape], Citroen Saxo and Skoda Fabia. Amazingly my Meastro van [ex BT used between 1993 and 1996] had superb lights, on such a basic vehicle!
I also have had a good gander at the underside, and it is perfectly preserved without rust.
This one is going to be with me for a while!
Best wishes from George
I will agree that the steering is a slightly acquired taste ... but it is precise and predictable.
This evening I took it out for a short run on the lights. It has a very good dipped beams and wonderful full beam. Generally I hate driving in the dark, but these lights are well enough planned and built to allow comfortable night driving. The last car I had with lights this good was the Volvo, and that was made way back in 1989. It surprises me how many cars have lights that are either too bright [so the risk is of the car coming towards you cannot see enough to avoid the curb and bouncing into you], or so poor a dipped beam pattern that you really can see nothing beside the headlights coming towards you. Cars I have owned with bad lights include Nissan Micra [noddy car shape], Citroen Saxo and Skoda Fabia. Amazingly my Meastro van [ex BT used between 1993 and 1996] had superb lights, on such a basic vehicle!
I also have had a good gander at the underside, and it is perfectly preserved without rust.
This one is going to be with me for a while!
Best wishes from George