2006 mini cooper

So, my wife took care of buying a car for herself ... a lot of everything was revised, but the main options were identified pretty quickly: Nissan Micra, Mini Cooper, Ford Fiesta. For many reasons, Ford's products were immediately rejected, and since the Micra had already been rented and left a very positive impression, it was decided to take the Mini for a day or two. Everything that will be written below can most likely refer only to this instance of a rental car, but the review will be biased, because .... But in order. For two days we were chasing this car, since there are few of them at the box office, and the car is popular, they finally took it. The device itself: yellow bottom, white top (i.e. roof), leather, climate, automatic, disc music. Salon - well, what a salon ... a rental car, very shabby, but this is not the main thing :) We were primarily interested in driving performance. We filled out the paperwork, sat down and drove off. First impressions - the steering  2006 mini cooper wheel is like on a truck, you can’t turn it ... I got out, looked at the wheels - everything seems to be fine ... well, I think, okay, that means that in addition to the passenger compartment, they also killed the hodovka. I called the distributors, they answered - everything is fine, they just sorted out the chassis! Well, it’s normal, it’s normal, later I drove to a tire fitting shop, the pressure in all wheels was at least 1 atmosphere below the norm !!! Guys, well, you need to keep an eye on the car ... Okay, we left the rental area, got into a traffic jam at the TTC ... the temperature is 26 Celsius overboard, the car is tinted, the sun does not fry, the climate works softly, it does not blow cold air anywhere, but the temperature in the cabin keeps normal. In general, we were sick in a traffic jam for an hour and a half, strained two things - an incomprehensible reaction to pressing the gas and a too high rise in the temperature of the cooling system - almost to the limit before the fan turned on ... Misunderstandings with the reaction of pressing the gas were expressed in the fact that either auto did not go, or tried to break away from the place with axle box. At first, I sinned that I had to adapt to the car, so that my leg would remember how to put pressure on the gas ... I almost succeeded, I understood only one thing - the leg can adapt, but cars don’t like to feel sick in a traffic jam ... they escaped , the speed was raised above 2500 on the tachometer and the machine drove, as they changed it :) About an hour after we took this car, color music with sensors began: first ABS caught fire, then DSC, the tire pressure sensor lit up for dessert ... I'm for the phone - what, they say, for ... ?? ? The answer is amazing in its exhaustive simplicity: "Glitches!!! We have such crap on all our cars" ... Well, I think, okay, we'll test the car in "natural conditions" without electronic assistants. We waited for the evening, the cars almost disappeared from the streets and we went for a drive ... since the car was the subject of adoration for my wife, I put her behind the wheel. With her 157 cm height, she settled there quickly and comfortably, felt the handles, levers, pressed the pedals and ... let's go. In principle, we drove in the usual manner for a wife - not particularly in a hurry and without impudence, but not in the style of "55-60" either ... acceleration, braking, turns (without slowing down :)), the car drives well, the suspension is stiff, holds the road almost perfectly (rubber would be normal and "almost" removed). BUT: after 20-30 minutes of driving, the wife clings to the side of the road with the words: "Not mine !!! I'm afraid of her ...", followed by epithets, metaphors and other phraseological units that characterize this car far from the best side. I sit down myself ... we have paths here in the Northern Administrative District where you can "ride well and quickly" :). What can I say - the car loves high engine speeds, speed and easily copes with almost any maneuver. Only two things interfered with me: automatic transmission (I had to go to the manual, since the button petals are quite convenient) and a rather mediocre view in the rear-view mirrors, but the second is more of a matter of habit. In principle, the lyrics are over, you can proceed to the bottom line of the summary: 1. Exterior and everything outside. Well ... pretty, I would say outrageous. Journalists-writers will better tell about Mini's appearance. Few p https://cars45et.com/listing/mini/cooper/2006