[JoeJCW]

Thanks for all the replies, still waiting to hear from my 2 closest dealers to see if they can arrange for one to test drive. They don't seem to be returning my calls at the minute.

One of them told me It wasn't possible to test drive an automatic gearbox as MINI ' have not and never will make an automatic JCW'... this was after telling me he's worked for MINI for over 10 years.

Help ?

Bowker at preston was really good for me, delt with a guy called simon collinson who just sorted everything out no worries. only up the m6 from chester

They seem to do better trade in deals too