MINI John Cooper Works A friend recently bought a BMW MINI JCW (John Cooper Works) and kindly let me take it for a drive. I wanted to review it without any preconceptions, so I did no research beforehand and simply waited for the day of the test drive. Seeing the JCW for the first time, I was struck by how different it looked from a regular MINI. The first things to catch my eye were...
First Impressions of the BMW MINI Cooper D The other day, I shared my husband’s test-drive report on the BMW MINI Cooper D his younger sister had bought. I recently got the chance to drive it myself, both around town and on Royu Driveway, so I’d like to share a few of my own impressions. My husband had already told me it was a beautifully engineered car that was easy to drive and left a...
My Sister-in-Law Buys a MINI The other day, I wrote about how my husband’s younger sister bought her first car after 20 years as a paper driver. She chose a BMW MINI Cooper D (3-door) in a stylish combination of British Racing Green with a white roof. She drives it nearly every day and gets special lessons from my husband on weekends. She’s even been practicing on Royu Driveway, and all that time behind the...
My husband wrote a test-drive review of the BMW MINI Cooper my sister bought. If you have a moment, be sure to check it out. I’ve written a few delivery-day and review articles about my younger brother’s cars. This time, though, I’m writing about my younger sister. She’s seven years younger than me and the same age as my wife. She hadn’t driven in about 20 years, but recently took the plunge and bought a...
My Sister-in-Law Buys a New Car I mentioned it briefly in a post on my husband’s Twitter account, but his younger sister recently bought the first car of her life: a three-door BMW MINI Cooper, the Cooper D model. She showed me a photo, and it looked incredibly stylish. The thing is, she hadn’t driven at all in nearly 20 years since getting her license. After the car was delivered, she told my husband, “I...
