If you missed the meeting tonight, you missed a good one! MINI sent PR reps there to announce the opening of the MINI dealer in Louisville. It will be owned by Tafel and located next door to the Benz dealership. Yes.. a BMW product and Mercedes in one spot. How cool!

 

Fantastic news. More really cool stuff to be announced Alexander + Hughes soon. They'll be posting info here and they've set up a FaceBook page. Stay tuned.

 

what was the Facebook page again?

 

just looked for it. Couldn't find it. I send Rebecca and Chad an email for the link. Should get it tomorrow.

 

Good for you all!

I miss Louisville. I Graduated from Trinity and moved out to NM several years later.

 

This is freakin awesome. No more hour and half drives to Cinci.

So who knew that they were going to show up at the meeting? I might have skipped work knowing this.

 

Any clue on an opening date? next week, next month, next year?

 

Whoops, never mind, reading was never my fine point.

 

the june date is just to break ground as they plan on putting up a new building on the corner. the dealership is a done deal but the dates for opening and ground breaking are not yet firmed up. best case would be a guess at dec.

 

Did I say how excited I was to hear about this?

 

What year did you graduate? I'm a 89' grad.

 

Here's the Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-M...9389794?ref=mf#

Also, looks like they're trying to plan an event at the St. Joe's car show on June 5-6.

 

That's pretty awesome. Although i don't have a bmw mini, it's still pretty neat. I wonder if they will be able to service older, non bmw minis. hmmm

 

Why would Tafel have to put up a new building? I presumed Mini would move into the old Volvo space. The Mercedes operation doesn't appear to be using that space.

 

Word is they may be in the Volvo space until the building is built....

 

This is great could be a clubman in the future afterall or mini truck if and when they come out not saying anythung bad about cinci mini ( They have been great) but 2 hours away classic jim

 

alexander and haughes contacted me back in january and came by to take some pictures and quiz me about how much I like our minis , I showed then the garage and that said it , I told them of other mini louvers in louisville . they said they would get back , Talked about new dealer but wouldn't say ( gee I could be minutley responsible for the new dealer WOW ) classic jim

 

Don't expect a truck anytime soon, but if a SUV fit your needs, then expect one of those in the next couple of years if not sooner.

 

You are the Professor of Minis!!!

BTW - My classic has a very bad front end.

 

If and when hiring for the new dealership happens and anyone hears about it, please message me . I would be very interested in applying for a sales job. Ive been in sales jobs of all types and would love to sell mini.