You ready? Watch your eye. Right, watch your eye. Watch your eye.
Watch your eye. Thank you. See, it's not comfortable. Don't leave the flip back.
Yeah. You sure? I know. You all right?
Yeah. You've got to listen to the all talk car podcast back from a bit of a break since Christmas. I'm getting a weird look. Well, I was.
I was told my wife we're going on a live drive. She goes, you what? I go, people are in your car for Jamie. So let's reveal it.
She goes, are you back out of your feet in it? She knows what it is. She knows what it is. She knows what it is.
She looks out the window. Yes, we bought Notties car. You're kind of the fleet. It's a mini cooper.
And it's the F series. That's the recent model. Yeah. It's actually quite written.
But you know what? It's a 1.5 liter three cylinder. Let's start her up. Let's switch down like a fucking airplane.
And it's quite not bad sound. It was meant being built those 500cc cubes and then put them together, make engines. Well, this is the smallest one that made the 1.5 liter three cylinder. Yeah, it's basically there two lit up with a M6 cylinder.
M6 cylinder, M6, 500cc. So, yeah. Let's take for speed. It's too big.
It's too big. It's too big. That was a bit ill after Christmas and how's all parts family? You'll have to Christmas.
So, Ross is at the moment. Fent of roving reports. So, the roving report had a new operation, so he was unavailable. So, this thing is seven years old.
Only had 27,000 kilometers in it. And we picked it up for a bargain. I won't say how. It was from a dealership.
So, that's good. That's just in drive. So, it's standard BMW, so a key box in fair and E. So, you've got your drive.
And if you flip it to the left, it's in sport. And it gets deactivates the stop start. Anything up and down. It's not to just firm up a bit.
It's sport. Yeah, and it holds in the key. I'm driving sport. I can't drive in the other version.
So, it's like, good setting position. I'm comparing it 20 years ago. We bought the first mini. Oh, fuck.
Remember that? Yeah. So, it was the first mini that was called... That was called...
No, Hercules was the 67 B. That was mini... More, more, more, more than a bit. I don't know what I'm saying.
So, this one doesn't rattle like the other one did. That was an ergonomic disaster. This is just a bit less of an ergonomic disaster. Like, the one that had the big plate in the middle with the speedo.
We had that big speedo in the middle. Yeah. And I think it had a taco in the center cluster. I can't remember that.
Yeah. But I remember good on Jim Albus, while at the mini. Because it was the first one in Sydney. Everyone was all excited.
Everyone used to point at it. It was like a ring on the white roof. And Jim took it for the day. He got to the M5 tile.
And he didn't have to open the window. Yeah, they opened the door and paid the top. The window switches were like toggle switches in the center console. But I remember that.
So, so this one has improved. Well, they did try and channel that pretty sharp. I was put shit everywhere. And as you.
We're going to put the windows switches in the middle. In the middle. In the middle. We're not going to fuck.
And then we'll do a little middle knobs. And you've got a mark. Are we going to mark them? No, fuck.
No, we're just going to have a. You could have find them. So, these windows switches are in the normal spot. So, that's a bit better.
You've got your speedo. You've got like a pod in the middle with that sort of digital cluster underneath. You're going to tack out to the left and you've got a fluid fucking digital fuel gauge. Like with lines.
That's just like a fucking. You've got to put in a fuel gauge. And the center's still got the circle, but it's like a basic I drive. So, you've got the little knob down there.
And it's like an I drive. And it's got a funky light thing. So, got that. Paneroof.
Mate, it's got a roof. It's got those lights where you can see your toes in orange around. It's got a USB Bluetooth. It's alright.
It's a good little car. It's a good little car. It is. And I've been sort of fringing it a couple days away.
I've been sort of taking it off the door and giving it a bit of a bash. But Mate, it handles the steering. It's quite heavy. It's got that sporty feel in my poor door.
She doesn't know whether she's eating the cat ties on the reflectors. Or whether it's a suspension through the the the ta lines on the highway. So, I'll get used to it. Are we going to tell a switch?
Yeah. Is that what we're going to do? That's the last night. So, we got a bad house to do a bit of performance driving there.
Anyway, so your tail is beating town. She didn't come on the podcast. She never told her. No, she didn't.
We'll get her cousin Tally Harris one. Tally Harris. Yeah. Yeah.
We'll get her dad's car. Tally Harris. Ah, yeah. That's right.
Yeah. Yeah. Tally Sazooki. Carpans?
No, car. It's a car piece of carpans. I thought we were going to get the Porsche Taitake. What I look at, when I look at these, I think, okay, you can see the BMW influence.
No, it's a main improvement. But even when you look at a Korean car from seven years ago, you think, the fuck was BMW doing? Like, we just features and, you know, like this stupid fuel gauge. I know they're going for the retro stuff and everything.
They've still got those little knots, but the gaps on the side with the windows weren't the old one. Yeah. They've got cup holders. They've got an armrest.
You can sort of change gears. Okay. There's no panel shift on this model, but the higher grades probably get a panel shift. Yeah, you can cut up and down and around.
You make a little bit down. That's the armrest. Yeah. You need to have it down here.
You need to have it down here. And the back seats, you can fit two people. That's a four seater. It's a CD car.
It's a little car. Yeah, you wouldn't drive it to stay with the very suspense to be hard. Very smooth. It is smooth.
Oh, yeah. Oh, you can do some long trips with that. It's not too many people in here and too much luggage. No, it's not as a road.
It's perfect too. Yeah. But they've improved. As it comes out, they've focused now, they've got rid of that internal circle, all sheet in the middle.
That's a horrible guy. It's not this fun, people. Yeah, it is narrow. Isn't it sluck looking outside of a letterbox?
It is very, you know, between the mirror which is quite big. The mirror is. Yeah, yeah. Sorry.
The mirror is. The paper is quite thick. It's quite big. You wouldn't want to be careful.
That's just a... You're too big. Try changing the review. Try changing the mirror.
Do it straight. Can you reach it? Yeah. Do it feel big.
Yeah. I'm at no higher. Whatever. For me, it's a stretch.
It's sitting in a normal seating position. Not too far back. I'm quite comfortable here. I can't touch it.
You can't touch it. I need to be like, you know, another couple inches. No, no, no. I'm not only here that bad.
I mean, my wife here, she can reach it. That's it. You have your couple inches. No, but you've got to lean forward.
You've got to lean forward. You've got to adjust it. But then you've got to adjust it again. You can adjust it again.
And it really makes you I've found with that mirror. But like the risk of the car, the steering controls will get used. So if it comes from a different bloody steering engine, at least it's not like another car that we're gonna live for. So it's a good little compact car.
It's a good city car. No, this is a good car. It's a good car. It's a good car.
Corner police. I thought we got to tell anyone? What? The government listens.
You said we weren't gonna tell anyone we're gonna get it. Oh, yeah. And how we got it. Oh, okay.
So were they didn't pay for anything. No, wasn't they, this way. He was a girl. It was a girl.
It was a girl that did play the red. Not only be gone, say, you have a picture, right? I'll tell you the story, I'll press that in red button, and switch it off. Now we've got to look after.
And the interior is brand new. They've got the USB. They've got all the usual mod cons. The kids like, they've got a piece of little glove box.
You can fit your tissues in there. And, um... It's quite pleasant. I mean, I bought the B class.
I was considering the app, I got the B class for a reason. Like, I've got toys. I just want a reliable, comfortable A to B class. It's only under for my left right.
Easy on fuel, my maintenance, rack up the case. Like, entry point from a... I wanted the B class because it's easy for mum at the end of the day. Right?
That was a problem. It would have looked at a new Korean car. But they're going to spend like 50 grand because there's nothing that's three to five years old. That was the same as the B class.
No, it's the market's fully up. I was looking for... Because the B class really did have its own market. Yeah, it's...
actual BMW start travelling. Two series. Great, whatever they... But there's none of them on the right.
You don't see any of those. There's none of them. There's any components in the mini. You've got to want the mini.
They stand out. You're either buying the mini or you're not. Yeah. You can't...
You're not pro shopping it with really anything else. No. It's a... It's like a fashion accessory.
You know, I'm... This is the three-door hatch. There's a lot of the four doors. That was a bit of a hit.
I thought it would be a bit of a fud. But the four-door hatch... Which is... It's turning quite well.
Yeah. We're in our usual spots but... Is that a cop's not from a great test? No, because they're similar.
You know, I was drinking a Tails' gift. Huh? Or not. Or do they?
So this is getting ready. So have you got your backstage passes now? No. Triggers should have a mini.
She's too tall. He can't turn around. It's... It's...
Oh, it's my dog. Yeah. Tack-tack. Oh, man.
No, Mac is. Oh, Mac is a bit open. He's kind of driving. Mac is as big as nine of the year.
Four nights in a row. Sell out crowds with a T-T. Oh, I like it. I'm a fan.
This is a thumbs up. He's a really good use car. Whenever I drive this car, I always get out smiling. I don't look back.
You know, you look back sometimes to the car. I just walk out with a smile. But I don't look back at all those cars. Yeah, I don't like it.
Yeah. But with the Cooper Works and the GP, you know, they're like 75 grand. And after the, would you? Could you?
This is firm. The GP is the firmest of firm. of firm, they'd be like your BMW spec rock card suspension. Yeah, you couldn't live with that.
I couldn't live with it. And with the way the cockpit is with the narrow roof, I think one we're getting older. I think we find getting a little luxury in life now. You know, when I lived with the A45 for, you know, four, five years where I think you've bought a mini GP, you don't need it.
There's a better sports card. No, that has to happen. You've got a civic type of other that would smash it. No, even that.
I've looked at them and just must buy some. You must be getting cold. Yeah, but when you try to think, you don't need it. It's like the MX-5.
It's the most fun you can have going slow. You feel like you're going fast, but you're not. Well, the funny thing is that these days with the amount of cameras on roads and stuff as well, the other day I was driving along. And within the space of 500 metres, there was a red light speed camera, there was a mobile phone camera, and another red light speed camera.
At three different intersections. What do I want to do with a fast day? Yeah, whatever. I mean, even my wife's C300, you're not careful.
You're doing what I'm speaking. You're the one's 16 or 50s, or 50s, or 40s, in the blink of an eye. And these days, say you don't have 50, 40s, bang, you're gone. That's three points.
Yeah, you don't. Yeah, I think the base model is... OK, I haven't got the latest. It's got all the usual mod cards.
When you're in cars at this price, you don't want the leather, because they're crossing the other way. It's got the old wipers. It's got the old headlights. That's another little disaster.
Look at the fucking buttons off of the headlights. You can't see them. Yeah, twist your head. Another thing, you'll twist your head and look at what's going on.
With my headlights, I'll do it. Like, has it got all the headlights? Yeah, well, that's a plus one. Yeah, yeah.
Even on the front lights, even on the bay class, I've got some times I want to look for the refog, and I've got to go looking for it. Well, the daylight running lamps, it's got the little spotties, it's the daylight running light. So, not that anyone's going to pull you over and do the dead spot lights on, but they're not that bright. But you've got the basic air con balance, like at the Feral.
You've got your volume knob. The screen's pretty basic. If you're familiar with the iDrive, it's pretty straightforward. Yeah, see, they're freaking too.
Stop, start. And you haven't thrashed it. Every other car we get, it's thrashing. You don't know, but usually you do.
You do the traffic, right? I know. Just like past three police talks. Yeah, it's a take-takes, like those roadblocks.
You don't need to drive this car like that. No, but that's not what it's for. Like you could go, if you were going away, you want to go for a cruise, then you go up to the mountains, down the close, something. Nice car.
You know, it goes through the curves and the peaks. Yeah, yeah. But it's got a place from a car person. That one's something a bit different, no?
And I was worried with that with the three cylinder, it'd be found wanting. But it's been adequate. It keeps up, you're not struggling. This is...
The A-Class has the three cylinder. Yeah. And they're quite spotly as well. They've got an efficient turbo charger on it.
It's a good little setup. You like? I like. It's a good car.
We're going to put it through spaces, or we're going to just start... I'm going to get the three cylinder roar. You want to get a roar? OK.
Okay. Roar. Huh? Huh?
I saw the mini-electric, what a fucking level, what a basic shit. It's got a ton of common ranges on it. He's all four electric things that are down the ass. Mercedes are set up.
Mercedes are set up. They're back for the second on their 23. That's pretty smooth. It's all right.
I'm going to go and prep to the front. Yeah, but it's all right. I said smooth. I did it without any major hard-pressure.
And the keepbox is great. It's not smooth. There's no sudden drops. I'm quite impressed with these.
It's not a six-speed, so a six-speed box. That's how I think we did not want to buy a CVT. No, that shit. Oh, that shit.
So that was another thing. One of my search engines, no CVT. Because the first mini was a CVT. And I used to use the up-down all the time.
When my wife used to say, Dad, you've got to pick my gears and I said to fuck, you drive with your CVT. And I'll play with the gears. And I think this handles, they've still got the same handling trait. But I'm quite impressed with this gearbox setup and with the three cylinder.
It doesn't feel like you've been ripped off or far out. I think they've got to set up in a way where it's sprightly enough to get going in traffic. Obviously, no one's worried about top speed. It doesn't know what the...
It's 260. This is not getting to 260 down here. Remember when you're a kid, you used to look at your uncle's dashboard and go, might that's cars faster than yours? Because it says 160.
Yeah, yeah. This class, 200, the Toyota T 240. And we were a king shitting the playground back in the day. That's the other way of gauging how fast your car goes.
Yeah, thumbs up. I've got a double... I've got a double... I've got a double...
I'm worried the first car for... Oh, no, no, she was six static. The big ones with the beatles, she loves it. And I've got some funny, peep-plate stories.
We'll save that for her with the outdoor show. I've rented them down here and I've told you some of them. But because the beatles are like on school, even though it takes a ten-year-old car, it's not stop-start, remote, like this, right? It's got key in the ignition and I've got a phone call a couple of weeks ago about a parking.
It's a night, I've got a little brief intro. Now I've got the key in, but I can't turn it. I'll let the listeners figure out what happened to the car. We know what happened.
We know what happened. So there's a funny peep-plate stories with my girls, but they're characters. And the little one filled up petrol for the first time in a life as well. So they're getting a learning experience and I'll tell you another thing that we did with my youngest daughter when we were at Topos Works.
So we'll save that for the normal park council. We'll resume normal transmission, but thank you for listening. It's the night's live drive in the mini Cooper. Mr Cooper?
Not next. Not next. Just a Cooper. Three-seven-nine-old Cooper.
Red with a white roof and white stripes. It's a Cooper. Thank you for listening. Bye for now.
Mr Cooper. Night Mr Cooper.