Summer is done. So of course Shed thinks you should buy a convertible...
Shed doesn’t particularly like talking about New Minis as he can’t fathom all the R52, R53, R56 stuff. It just confuses him and heaven only knows what ‘pack’ this week’s sub-£2k Sidewalk is nearest to. Mini nerds are welcome to come along and explain it to us on the forum if they’ve got nothing better to do.
Later Sidewalks had the 192hp and 206lb ft 2.0-litre turbo engine, wheels that Edward Scissorhands would have liked and a roof printed with a unique woven graphic arrow pattern, which sounds a bit prison-y, but our gen-one Sidewalk came as either a normal 1.6 Cooper, a 100-off JCW edition or, as here, with the 168hp and 162lb ft supercharged Cooper S engine.
The vendor’s pics suggest that the roof on this one does work, which they didn’t when the motors packed in, as they regularly did. When they were working the roof did operate quickly, in 18 seconds to be precise. More than a few soft tops were replaced under warranty though, only for the replacement ones to also fail, often out of warranty. One owner had his roof changed three times in the space of two months as the material kept tearing.
Shed is giving up trying to get definitive answers from the internet on the cost of annual road tax, so the figure of £365 which he obtained for this one should be seen as advisory at best. The cost figures you’ll be given for servicing at BMW dealers might seem equally outlandish, mainly because they are. Any dealer invoice will not be Mini, especially in London where last year average non-marque-specific garage labour rates were found to be £141 an hour.
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