MINI Cooper Convertible vs Audi A3 Cabriolet

Flamboyant to the core, not as good as a hatchback, and yet distinguished like no other. The Mini Cooper S Convertible wows with its open-top driving experience. This three-door car isn't practical with limited space inside, but comes packed with features and is quick and fun to drive. And with a well-engineered open and close mechanism for the roof, it doesn't restrict its utility in pollution and vulnerable climatic conditions like ours. Well, if it wasn't for its high CBU pricing, it wouldn't have been difficult to recommend. Still quite capable of reigniting the spark of interest, not just in this part of the motoring world, but for anyone's glazed over look.

If the sight of a convertible ever tugged at your heart, then the Audi A3 Cabriolet is one that can easily lure you, especially in that lip-smacking shade Audi calls ‘Vegas Yellow’. And we can’t help but state that it was an attention grabber as long as it was in the hands of our testers. Regardless of age, everyone just dropped their jaws at the sight of this car, and it is this experience which makes up the A3 Cabriolet’s ultimate selling point.

It was roughly about seven years ago that I had a tryst with an Audi sports car which changed the course of my destiny. I had just completed my fifth semester of college and in that ‘make something out-of-myself- in- life’ mode I was interning with a publication. But it was not a newspaper or magazine and after two dull stints I had finally got the chance to train with an auto magazine (ironically called Automan) based out of Oman where my dad was working.