Cars are machines, built to be used. That may seem like a truism, and we mean no disrespect to the moneyed collectors who keep their automobiles pristine with delivery mileage in air-conditioned vaults, but the fundamental purpose of a car is to transport its occupants from point A to point B. Naturally, for folk like us, this journey invariably involves a pointless and very rapid detour down the twisty route to point C and back, and it’s for this manner of frivolity that cars like the Mini Cooper came to exist. Ostensibly designed to be a surprisingly
