Just before I quit my crappy job and bogged off to New Zealand to sit on a jetty in Lake Wakatipu, I sold

the 205 GTI and got this little Mini. It was like getting a jumper two sizes too small, and freaked people

out when they were being overtaken. Check out the bull bars, rather laughable given that collision with

anything bigger than a squirrel at over 5 mph would have ended up with the engine in the boot.