Irish Independent Says MINI Coupe "Falls Short"

The Irish Independent complains -

The suspension in my 'Cooper S' is so sportily tuned it created a new meaning for the word 'feedback'. I felt intimately connected to every metre of road covered. That was grand over good surfaces, but anywhere bumpy or coarse strayed into distinctly robust territory. Some people like that. I don't.

And, maybe it is my myopic imagination, but they seem to have made that bloody great Big Ben of a 'speedo' in the middle of the dashboard even larger.

What a waste of space when you consider they have had to place everyday switches all over the place. You'd need the memory of a Mastermind contestant and the arm of a basketball player to reach some of them.

Sorry. I'm ranting a bit now. You see I love most of the MINI versions -- a lot -- and I think some of the others are excellent for what they set out to do. But I think they might have tried to make too much of a good thing with this one.

The cabin is tiny, with nothing like the adjustment on the seats you'd want. And there was a lot, I mean a lot of road/tyre noise.