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Originally Posted by BAVBMW
Air & Road, the '06 Mini was an entirely different chassis, with an entirely different engine (actually engine options). If yours was a CVT, that means you didn't have the supercharger either, which meant overall, a much more reliable drivetrain. Oil use was still a concern, but nowhere near the newer engines, and all that was really needed there was checking it occasionally. Something I'm sure you and your family are familiar with, unlike so many of todays drivers. And the timing chain wasn't an issue at all. Without direct injection, intake carbon build up wasn't a factor either.
About the only thing known to be a big issue on a car like yours, was the CVT. Mileage like what you reported is pretty much unheard of on the CVT, you must live and drive in very favorable conditions for one. Congratulations on keeping one together for so long.
But I wouldn't expect, nor could I recommend, similar with a newer model.
MV
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Yes the CVT took special oil and special equipment at service, at least that is what I read. It used ZERO amount of oil between 10,000 mile changes. My wife drives almost no stoplight to stoplight kind of driving. Probably 98% of her driving is on country roads or DFW freeways with the cruise control set. DFW freeways on the weekends usually don't involve stop and go.
We ultimately traded it off for two reasons, she was ready for something different and we had heard $8K to replace the CVT. That said, it was doing so well, we might have been money ahead to just have driven it to failure.