GBMINI#3

Sometimes it is the silly things that give the most pleasure … tonights weather for example:

Very wet roads tonight, and lots of cars going much too slowly … so I head off to pick up Thai for dinner, via the two route 128 rotaries (not via the more direct route that Google Maps suggests).
A nice 3/4 left round the first rotary, then a blast along the straight to the second, half way round that and down the hill to the lights & STOP at the bottom. Passing everything on the way and loving the fact that my car/tires holds tight to the road, Xenon headlight visibilty is great, my sound system plays great entertaining music … everything is just EXCELLENT 🙂

So after picking up dinner, I U-turn and head home the same, longer, way 🙂

On the way to work this morning, I reached 10,000 miles …

GBMINI#3 reaches 10,000 miles

Not quite 7 months (a little quicker than GBMINI#2), and nothing to complain about.
The cold start issue seems normal for many MINIs but was resolved by switching to a different gasoline; the spurious SES light did not happen much, and was recently cured (hopefully) by an engine software update.

And for those anti to the automatic transmission, I can only tell you that my MINI enjoyment is at least as high with GBMINI#3 as with the previous manual transmission MINIs …