trekking over to Atlanta one Saturday to check out the 07's in person & test drive one? I don't have a day picked out at all but one Saturday I am going to head over there. If anybody else wants to go let me know

 

Hey TT!
Hayley and I are having a trek to Nashville March 11th, 1) to go see Paolo Nutini in concert and 2) to have a fun overnighter and 3)to get my broken glove box fixed.
We'll be sure to check out the '07's while there

 

Be sure to let us know what you think of it Parrish. I am just waiting for nice weather & I will tool on over to Atlanta to check em out

 

Well you'd better like it. It is the future you know.

bamatt, are you arranging a test drive, or are you just going over and making it happen?

 

I figure I will call ahead to make sure I can do a test drive cause it would really suck to drive all that way for nuttin

 

Are you going to tell them you're interested in a Hardtop?

 

Probably so. I don't think they will be too gungho on letting me testdrive if they don't at least think I am interested

 

Not sure if Petey gonna like hardtop. His shades can't be seen that well.

 

Don't worry I am not getting one I just wanna drive one so Petey's love of ridin w/the top down is safe

 

I'll be at Global tomorrow. It'll be nice to see the new cars.

 

Be sure to test drive & give us a review.

 

Sat in one. Nice redwood leather, but the beige with wood trim looked keen too. Not an R56 owner, I don't know the official terms and haven't learned them yet.

The shift **** doesn't top off like a sphere, but has this hollow concave thing going on. I like the glove box release, and the extra space for the accelaration leg. Didn't turn on all the lights, so I didn't get to work the radio. Remember your first impression of the MINI's interior, in that all the plastic seemed kinda cheap? Wow! They've really taken that to another level.

Didn't get to drive one, really didn't have the time or consider taking the effort. I was there for service. (3 tasks, all done right. Score one for Global this round) but the new MINI area has it's own service line which pulls up right on the end of the building there. That's very nice. (Black painted lane with yellow striping, very MINI).Plus both my invoice and car id tag number ended with an "84".

Perused the lot and saw some nice colors. What's that Metallic (gunmetal) Gray with bonnet stripes? That was nice. But the bonnets seemed kind of deflated. Less personality. Sorry.

Not very MINI was the banner which greeted me, and visible from 285. "New Minis starting at $199 a month". They did have a nice row of them by the globe. Couldn't detect a bonnet difference from that distance.

 

I wish you could have driven one Louis. One day I will make it over to ATL to check em out myself. I dunno what the grey color is. I know there is a new color called Sparkling Silver

 

They had a yellow lightning bolt model on the floor too. It would have been nice to drive one, yes. And judging by the inventory I'm sure they'd have been very accommodating if I'd posed as a potential buyer.

Yeah, I know- missed opportunity and all. Everybody loves dealing with Global right?

I was just happy to have my car all fixed and ready to leave by the time our nearby seminar broke for lunch. Work brought me very near the dealership, and I got stuff done they can't do on the weekend. I was satisfied with that, darn right.