Welcome aboard.
I'm a former Mini man myself: a mint twin-point Rover Cooper with a Webasto roof and then a totally original 1979 850 City, the latter now owned by the wife of Horney, who is also of this parish.
I've now got a battered old Mk2 GTi, but that's fatherhood for you 
Mini had to go when i tried to get two tackle boxes, a rod bag, bivvy, bait, food and an 11 year old boy in it. just about fitted but then i realised that there was no room for me. bit more room in the golf but even when driven hard, its nowhere near as much fun as a mini.