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Chrysler vehicles are shit, I had a Jeep and don’t even have the time to list all of the issues it gave me. I’ve had many friends and acquaintances with the same experience with Chrysler vehicles. Mini Coopers on the other hand seem to be well made cars. Pretty sure BMW owns them (good or bad thing depending on your opinion of them). My friend got into a horrific accident in his late 2000’s Mini Cooper S and the thing saved his life. Not sure if the newer models are as tough but his was literally a little tank. He rolled it 12 times without wearing a seatbelt and both occupants survived. Firemen on the scene said any other vehicle that size would have disintegrated or rolled into a ball. In the pictures I saw you could easily still identify it as a Mini Cooper. That thing was also pretty fast, I know he had taken it to a track and gotten it up to 165 mph. (Note his accident was not due to speed.)
Eh, Chrysler had a dip in reliability for a few years (thanks, Obama), but I think in general they are fine. I had older 80s and 90s Jeeps that ran a long time. I currently have a 2013 Ram with over 100k miles that I drive almost every day and a 2019 Grand Cherokee that is nicer than my wife's Lexus RX 350. To me a Wrangler would be much more fun than a Mini especially if you don't do a lot of highway driving, but yeah like Biff said you've got to dump the stock tires and go with the soft top. But one of the fun things about them is that they are relatively cheap and can be customized in about a million ways.