If I didn’t maintain children and I did a lot of exciting driving,this is the car I would get
On day five with the Mini JCW (John Cooper Works, if you like your car to be known by a host of unconnected words), and I mused aloud that if I didn’t maintain children (they complained approximately the legroom,as they always enact, and it’s only going to get worse), and I did a lot of exciting driving,this is the car I would get. The eight-year-old said he now understood how the dog felt when we discussed what breed we’d get once he was dead. (The six-year-old said, in an unhurried monotone, and “Sausage dog. Furry one.”)Oh yes. In this natty petite hot hatch,with its dials and binnacles and cup holders and darling gear stick, all-round shiny and joyful like a Marc Jacobs key ring, and its glowing red and racing green colour-way,its ever-ready revving, I can totally see it: just me, and a wire-haired dachshund and the open road. Its quirky,but it refuses to sacrifice performance for cuteness.
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Source: theguardian.com