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Old Aug 1, 2007 | 09:44 AM
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She's all mine

Five years ago, I saw a fashion spread in the NY Times Sunday magazine. It featured anorexic models, driving around the Italian coast in a very cool looking car.
Upon following the search directions, I found out it was a MINI and there was a dealership not 10 minutes from my house. Needless to say, I bought one.
August marks my last car payment, and now MY S is all mine!
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 09:51 AM
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Congrats!! - I know mine has been worth every penny! - Of Course that is one of the reasons I call her Miss Money Penny!
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 09:51 AM
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Aw...Congrats! I love that feeling of paying off a loan
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by kgdblu
Five years ago, I saw a fashion spread in the NY Times Sunday magazine. It featured anorexic models, driving around the Italian coast in a very cool looking car.
Upon following the search directions, I found out it was a MINI and there was a dealership not 10 minutes from my house. Needless to say, I bought one.
August marks my last car payment, and now MY S is all mine!
Congrats, August will be my 1 year...(5 years to go!!!) Have any presents planned for when 'your s' becomes "YOUR S"?
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 10:17 AM
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Ah to be payment free!
Congrats!
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 10:51 AM
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Wooootttt!!

Donna
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 11:16 AM
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Congrats. Welcome to the club!
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 11:45 AM
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I am half way there, and looking forward to full ownership.


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Old Aug 1, 2007 | 02:47 PM
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Wow, congrats Katie
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 02:56 PM
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Congrats!! Great feeling, isn't it!?
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeremy1026
Congrats, August will be my 1 year...(5 years to go!!!) Have any presents planned for when 'your s' becomes "YOUR S"?
Nope.

Originally Posted by MINIclo
Congrats!! Great feeling, isn't it!?
Yup.

 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 04:11 PM
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Yeah! congrats. Can't wait till we get there!
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 04:36 PM
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congrats!! we paid off our '06 MCS in February, many years ahead of schedule. Awesome feeling.....I've never paid off a car before. I always get bored and sell well before the title comes after a final payment. Let's hope no car payment and a super cool highly modded car is enough to ward off the siren's call of an inline six twin turbo, 6sp and AWD from the other side of MoS.
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by PGT
Let's hope no car payment and a super cool highly modded car is enough to ward off the siren's call of an inline six twin turbo, 6sp and AWD from the other side of MoS.
That "other" side of MoS leads to fear...fear leads to anger...anger leads to hate...and hate leads to the dark side! Don't do it!

I was able to pay off SHADOWFAX when we sold our house in April. What a beautiful feeling seeing $18K of debt gone in an instant. I plan on enjoying the lack of monthly payments for quite some time (so I can use the cash flow for more mods! )
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 06:25 PM
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Congrats, I hope your next one is another European small one very Smart
 
Old Aug 1, 2007 | 07:08 PM
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Congrats, I hope your next one is another European small one very Smart
It's gonna be..we already put our $99 down
 
Old Aug 2, 2007 | 06:15 AM
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Congrats :-) I've never kept a car long enough to see this happen.
 
Old Aug 2, 2007 | 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by mdsbrain
Congrats :-) I've never kept a car long enough to see this happen.
me neither. I've always traded former cars in at 3 years.
 
Old Aug 2, 2007 | 07:09 AM
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Congrats!!! I can't wait for my payments to end, 8 months 2 go.
 
Old Aug 2, 2007 | 07:11 AM
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This is my first new car so it will be a very nice feeling when I pay it off.


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Old Aug 2, 2007 | 07:18 AM
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Wow! I just picked mine up yesterday and haven't even received the payment book yet. Congrats. Hope you have another 5 yrs. of great motoring
 
Old Aug 2, 2007 | 09:36 AM
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How many miles has your MINI covered now Katie?
 
 
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