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Sorry, I just wanted to rant a bit 😉

Got an email from someone asking about MINIsOnTop and the two year MINI Cooper lease raffle; I replied then soon after got a “challenge” email which required me to contort my vision and decode hidden text as complicated as this – actually worse than this, but I re-tried after the first failed attempt …

Some of the other MINI blogs I visit via GoMotoring (Mark’s wonderful one-stop-MINI-site) are almost as infuriating … TwistyBitz doesn’t remember me from one visit to another, GeorgeCo requires me to log-in (to someone else’s website!) and the Blogger sites require BOTH decoding skewy text and logging in with my Google account (but then they don’t remember from one visit to the next).
Meanwhile Josh simply asks me what color an orange is – that’s easy to answer (and is the inspiration for “red” on my weblog); such a simple answer still seems to defeat almost all spam (I’ve had 2 get past in eight months), so why do these weblogs and email users insist on making life so difficult for everyone else? My solution is typically not to bother commenting …

Margaret, my wife, still doesn’t like travelling in my MINIs – but tonight she discovered some of the thrills of MOTORING instead of simply driving … she drives an Audi A4 convertible but has been wishing to go back to a hardtop convertible like the Mercedes SLK230 she used to own.

Thinking of visiting Mercedes, but hating the thought of the local dealership, we quite by chance read that BMW have just brought to market their own hardtop convertible! Not as small as the SLK, but it turns out rather nicely designed and, of course, with excellent performance …
So tonight, we visited BMW of Peabody, “sister” dealership of MINI of Peabody, and brought this BMW 335i home for the night … The fact that I didn’t get to drive it at all gives a hint as to what Margaret thought of it (also the fact that she put it in sports drive mode and left it there!):

Personally, I found the sports seats extremely uncomfortable with their press-into-your-back side bolsters and raised piece at the front of the seat pressing on the back of my legs – but Margaret, smaller than me(!), found the seats very comfortable – although she was much more interested in the cars performance and handling! She even said at one point that she’d need to take it on a track!

So, we’ll see what happens, but “sister” cars on the driveway seems like a nice concept 🙂 (I’m sure Gabe would approve)