carmudgeons.com - View Single Post - Sticker Shock, Round 2 - 1-Series Convertible

Rob · 01-14-2008, 01:10 AM

One day, my wife, who has been planning on a MINI convertible as soon as she can reasonably replace or supplement the mini van (a long time) forever, saw the e90 convertibles. We went to the dealer so she could test drive e90s and they were putting the tops up on the convertibles out front. On the way home, I asked her if she wanted to stop in at the MINI dealer for fun. Her response was, and I quote . . . "you think I still want a MINI after seeing the 3 series convertible?"

The cost, weight, performance trade off, whatever, means nothing to her. She just knows she can get a fun car to drive that has a hard top . . . that goes down. In five years or so, we will hopefully do an ed delivery on whatever they have for a 3 series convertible at the time - as long as it's a hard top. Even if it is a $20k hard top.

01-14-2008, 01:10 AM	#8
Rob The user formerly known as rwg Join Date: Oct 2003 Carmudgeonly Ride: Z4 Location: Vegas baby! Posts: 8,261	One day, my wife, who has been planning on a MINI convertible as soon as she can reasonably replace or supplement the mini van (a long time) forever, saw the e90 convertibles. We went to the dealer so she could test drive e90s and they were putting the tops up on the convertibles out front. On the way home, I asked her if she wanted to stop in at the MINI dealer for fun. Her response was, and I quote . . . "you think I still want a MINI after seeing the 3 series convertible?" The cost, weight, performance trade off, whatever, means nothing to her. She just knows she can get a fun car to drive that has a hard top . . . that goes down. In five years or so, we will hopefully do an ed delivery on whatever they have for a 3 series convertible at the time - as long as it's a hard top. Even if it is a $20k hard top.