{"id":199,"date":"2005-08-24T07:08:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2005-08-24T07:08:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:08:58","slug":"2005-mcs-convertible-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"2005 MCS Convertible First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may write a full report on the differences between the 02 and 05 MCS&#8217; or I may not. So in the meantime here&#8217;s a quick list of things that I&#8217;ve noticed every time I drive so far.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not a motoring journalist or otherwise I&#8217;d come up with some better word, but the gearbox is, well, tight. First gear is so much sharper, quicker off the mark and with none of that low-rev stumbling. The overall driving feel is a lot better.<\/li>\n<li>The top is a marvel of engineering. I don&#8217;t know if I will ever stop going ooh and aah every time it opens and closes. Three days in and no signs of the &#8216;infamous&#8217; wear spots yet.<\/li>\n<li>I usually put my wallet in the door pocket but I can barely get my hand in there on the &#8217;05. I am guessing this is because of the roll cage but its utility is limited if I can&#8217;t get things out of there real easy.<\/li>\n<li>I miss the location of the clock. I hadn&#8217;t realised how often I want to see both the clock and my current trip miles.<\/li>\n<li>There seems to be less leg room in the back. I don&#8217;t care as I don&#8217;t sit there but that&#8217;s how it looks to me.<\/li>\n<li>The leatherette is really nice, I think I prefer it to real leather. I will be covering it with the Wet Okoles but if you don&#8217;t live in super hot temps I think its a great choice.<\/li>\n<li>The three spoke steering wheel looks better than I had expected.<\/li>\n<li>The new OBC is great: more statistics to look at and, most impressively, it seems to be accurate this time. So far no predictions of 38 mpg and 600 mile ranges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, thats it for now. Overall the car drives and feels so much better than the &#8217;02, and it looks great. Count me as one happy new MINI owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may write a full report on the differences between the 02 and 05 MCS&#8217; or I may not. So in the meantime here&#8217;s a quick list of things that I&#8217;ve noticed every time I drive so far. I&#8217;m not a motoring journalist or otherwise I&#8217;d come up with some better word, but the gearbox &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2005 MCS Convertible First Impressions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}