This 2009 Mini Clubman wagon with a highly desirable six-speed manual transmission and 51,000 miles on the clock is being offered on Facebook Marketplace in Cape Coral, Florida. The asking price is $7,960. The seller notes that “no more manual Minis are being produced,” and that’s accurate. Last year, the six-speed was still in the lineup, but the final examples were produced in February a year ago.
As part of the sell, the dealer notes that the Clubman model “gives you extra room and easy access to the back seats—excellent if you have dogs.” Note the plural there.
The original owner probably didn’t have dogs, because the car is “like new inside and out.” The seller also states that the paint is in fantastic condition and the interior is spotless.
By 2009 cars like the Mini were fairly modern. You can connect your Bluetooth devices, and there are USB ports. You won’t be able to connect Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, though. As a Florida car, the AC work, and it must be “ice cold.” The Mini has had “new brakes,” though it’s not clear how far that work went.
An extended warranty is available, but will you need it? Consumer Reports doesn’t have reliability ratings on that model. The magazine said the car “has the same frustrating controls and choppy ride as the standard Mini.” On the other hand, Cars.com gave it a 4.9 reliability rating. An owner in Flint, Michigan said, “I purchased this vehicle for my wife for commuting to work, an hour each way. I started to drive this vehicle and found it to be a reliable, safe, well-built vehicle and FUN to drive!” One man’s “choppy ride” is another’s cutting-edge performance.
As we all know, back in ’57 Sir Leonard Lord of the Morris Company asked head engineer Alec Issigonis to “design and build a small, fuel-efficient car capable of carrying four adults, within economic reach of just about everyone.” He succeeded brilliantly. The resulting Mini never really made it in America—too small—but it was an iconic vehicle in Europe and Great Britain.
Now MINI, the British brand founded in Oxford, has been owned by the BMW Group for more than 20 years. Starting in 2025, the Minis are built in Germany on BMW’s production lines. Whether this is related to Brexit is unclear, but Ward seems to think there’s a connection. The lineup now includes the MINI E electric.
The Clubman wagon was introduced in 2010, and is 9.4 inches longer than the regular Hatch/Hardtop. It’s identical to that car from the B pillars forward. The rear is accessed to twin barn doors. The Clubmans were powered by a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine producing 118 horsepower, though the Cooper S got a turbo with 172 hp. There was also an All4 all-wheel-drive option.
The Minis have retro-cool interiors that aren’t all that practical, but fun nonetheless. And they are zippy little things, true to the original issue. Classic.com puts the average Clubman at $12,348, so the asking price seems reasonable, especially given the car’s condition.
Regarding Minis, not only is a manual desirable but it’s pretty much mandatory. I learned the hard way about their automatics.
You can chalk up the choppy ride to the run-flat tires. The rigid sidewalls mean every bump will knock the fillings out of your teeth. I dumped the run-flats and put on standard tires (no easy feat due to the tire size) and the ride is now pretty much normal. BTW, my 2011 Countryman was produced in Graz Austria. I doubt the “new” Minis are British products.
A Mini without a sunroof is not a Mini for me.
These things are all over the used car market best thing this one has is factory anti theft transmission and lower mileage price is in range of what the dealers are asking I really don’t see anything special about this one.
Awful little BMW in disguise.
The only thing I use Consumer Reports for is to line the bottom of a bird cage or to start a campfire. Minis aren’t too bad reliability-wise if you’re the first owner, and I think they are kind of cool. Would I buy this at the price? Probably because the mileage is “low” and it is a “stick”. I’d have to check it out closely first.
how is this s***box a barn find? it’s a used cheap bmw in disguise most likely leaking oil where it is sitting
Indeed.
there oil burners, a quart every thousand miles, the dealer told me that was normal, as it got close to one hundred thousand miles some of the electronics failed, when the timing chain tensioner failed, I installed a new one with timing chain, it went up for sale.
This mini has a new car warranty in place is the new buyer want to activate it.
It is through Elite warranty Bumper to Bumper policy even includes tire and rim protection.