Is the mini cooper any good?

is the mini cooper any good?
im poor and want a fun DD I can tune and become race car
hatchback civics are rare and performance ones are doubly so
and I don't really know how the MX6 GTcompares to anything as nobody ever talks about it
can anyone tell me about the mini cooper?

Which one?

Friend had one, tranny went out on him at around 60k mile mark. They're tiny as fuck (compared to most other cars here in burgerland) and not all that quick or sporty.

the one available to poor fags IE early 2000s

And the crumple zone is your knees

>and I don't really know how the MX6 GTcompares to anything as nobody ever talks about it

Veeky Forums talks plenty about it, we just call it the Ford Probe GT

buy a golf 1.8t or vr6

The japanese import mini coopers and race them.So if it's good enough to be imported and bought in favor of civic type rs and all the other amazing shit they have, it must be pretty decent.

Japanese have a hard-on for anything British and/or German though

I have a soft spot for them. But they have a small engine bay. and it has the transmission, drive line, and turbo plumbing stuffed into it. I think I'll just admire from afar

Get an E46 for the same amount of money