Category: Convertibles 
Price Range: £15,995 to £19,000
Very cute, very fashionable, very well-built, very desirable.
Not that fast, not that cheap.
There was a five-month waiting list for a long time. Says it all, really.
Bar a few initial niggles, the Mini has always been a cut above most other city cars when it comes to quality. The problems experienced with the early hatches - including gearbox, power steering and suspension faults - were ironed out by the time this Convertible joined the range. However, there have been some problems of premature wear with the Webasto-developed electrically-folding hood, with its complex sliding front section, retracting side rails and Z-formation fold. But the entire body structure is solid and substantial, and the general fit and finish is a class ahead of, say, the dated old Ford Streetka, the sometimes problematic 206 CC and the flawed, leaky Citroen Pluriel.
Latest Readers' Drives About the MINI Cooper Convertible
wrote on 14 09 2007
wrote on 18 08 2006