Category: City Cars 
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Iconic image, the heritage, and it's still fun to drive.
Dreadful ride, cramped, noisy, impractical.
The Mini has long fallen behind the opposition in terms of refinement, practicality and just about everything else, but few other cars have been so loved. When you buy a Mini, you buy more than just a small, cramped, uncomfortable car - you're buying a design classic.
It just earns one star, because the driving pleasure partially distracts from the discomfort. The hard ride gets tiring and irritating on long journeys, and it's noisy too, though not as noisy as Minis used to be. The £500 option of leather seats is superfluous, unless you're just buying to pose. Space? What space? The boot is tiny, even the driver's seat is cramped, and as for the back seats.... However, this is NOT the point of the Mini, and at just 10' long, the only roominess you get is in the parking space. Minis come with a radio-cassette of decent enough quality, but the general noise will drown it out at lower volumes. Blast it out, and to hell with the refinement.
