The Lemon Index

Brands · No brand score

Mini.

Every Mini model we track: 1 with a Lemon Index.

Best Mini Cooper 43

2005 Mini Cooper, illustration

Every Mini, ranked. Lower is better. 100 is the average car.

Each score covers that model's own model years. Mini wasn't one of the 22 brands in our 2010–2022 study, so it has no brand score.

The Lemon Index counts owner complaints filed with the U.S. government (NHTSA) in a car's first 3 years, per car sold, against the average car of the same model years (100 = average, lower is better). It measures complaints, not crash safety. How it works · Every brand

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