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Fantastic show here in Flintshire, we were out till 1am watching, and looking at the graphs it may have got better still.

OK, I have two of these. The first I bought for £500 and fixed up.

The R50 is the one to buy. Cheap, easy to work on. The engine is sound. The Midland gearboxes before 2005 are pretty fragile. The Getrag 5 speed gearboxes from 2005 onwards are much better but can suffer problems.

You can buy them cheap because people think the head gasket has gone, it may have done if the car was seriously overheated. Generally it's a cooling system problem, most likely the electric fan which gives no warning that it has failed until the car overheats.

The car is easy work on and well engineered - with the Tritec engine. Parts are really cheap and easy to get.

You will need to fix lots of minor issues like CV boots, front top mounts. PAS pump. If you can do that yourself these are brilliant cars, 45mpg on a run, allowed in ULEZ zones, amazing handling. They are noisy on the motorway though.

DO NOT BUY the 2007 onwards, Gen 2, R55/R56 mini, it had huge engine problems. The engines almost always need a full rebuilt after 50k miles. They suffer from cracked valves and failed piston rings.

You didn't really expect any positive reviews from this lot did you Al? 

Friends have posted great photos from Oxford and Hatfield. Haven't seen anything myself due to light pollution here in North London. 

Update: Some feint reds and greens seen, despite the light pollution. 

Friends have posted great photos from Oxford and Hatfield. Haven't seen anything myself due to light pollution here in North London. 

You didn't really expect any positive reviews from this lot did you Al? 

Went to look at and bought a temporary car pending fixing the S Class properly.

Working MK1 facelift Bini Cooper with almost 6 months MoT.

Needs a few bits addressing, but actually drives quite well for what it is.

Thanks Viral_Jim and for Stemo I want to inform that we have hot days almost every Summer.  Now it does not look very promising...

That's more than we have! 

Technically, two sunny days justified the addition of an 's' at the end of day.

To have more sunny days than the two we get, Finland only needs three days. 

That said, far enough north and the Midsummer month  may as well be a single day.

Well, considering the £400 entry price, first impressions are positive.

Actually as described, which itself is a bonus, and surprisingly tidy to drive. Obviously it weighs half as much as the S Class and has a third of the power but at 45+mpg, it will pay for itself in about a  fortnight. Which is nice.

A quick google suggests he owns 181 cars and 160 motorcycles.

Can't be short of a few bob.

He must have a big garage. 

It's quite big ..... 

https://www.motortrend.com/features/shop-tour-inside-jay-lenos-garage/