{"id":466,"date":"2003-11-28T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2003-11-28T14:48:04","modified_gmt":"2003-11-28T14:48:04","slug":"meet-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/mini\/meet-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet MINI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a first for me: I found the car I wanted on the web; called to make arrangements to purchase it; then bought it sight-unseen. I&#8217;ve test driven several MINIs, but still I was a bit uneasy about making such a big purchase this way, but the whole process went very smoothly. I flew up to Long Island, picked up the car and drove back in one day. I&#8217;ve never had a car with less than 20 miles on it before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/11\/Southamptonbeach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/11\/Southamptonbeach.jpg\" alt=\"Southamptonbeach\" width=\"334\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/11\/Southamptonbeach.jpg 334w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/11\/Southamptonbeach-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/11\/newmini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/11\/newmini.jpg\" alt=\"newmini\" width=\"334\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/11\/newmini.jpg 334w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/11\/newmini-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a joy to drive. I don&#8217;t have to worry about what system is going to malfunction or if my cell phone has a full charge any more. Just the fact that I can turn the key and not have that moment of panic that it won&#8217;t turn over. <em>Life is good.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now begins the process of fitting in all the nice-to-have things. I installed the Mini Aux Audio cable yesterday. I chose to place it under the toggle switches and it really looks nice there. Now I can play my iPod through the HK stereo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a first for me: I found the car I wanted on the web; called to make arrangements to purchase it; then bought it sight-unseen. I&#8217;ve test driven several MINIs, but still I was a bit uneasy about making such a big purchase this way, but the whole process went very smoothly. I flew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/mini\/meet-mini\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet MINI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mini","tag-mini"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/11\/lowmiles-e1420987997501.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}