As a newly minted member of the MINI community I'll do my part to keep the tradition alive - shoot I've been making waves all my life ;-)

 

If you live down south like me, people wave all of the time.
Even when you're not driving a MINI.

 

Not at all dead !

I got the most enthusiastic wave I have had in months on the i5 heading north (7:30 AM) this morning somewhere around the 133 and the 55..

So if you are the driver of a Blue/White MC, that waved to me this morning, THANK YOU ! You made my day

 

Totally! We take pride in being friendly.

 

I still wave!! It's just that nobody ever waves back... So start waving!

OMG i just realized that i brought an old post back from the dead. (LOL!)

 

try waving at a stranger in New England and watching them wave back looking puzzled.

Can't wait to do it while motoring in my new MINI.

long live the Wave Thread!

 

... but after a couple of returned waves, he's hooked and now looks for MINIs everywhere to wave at.

So far, I've gotten returns about 12 out of 15 times (in 2 months)! Upstate NY is a pretty friendly place, and there aren't too many MINIs to dilute the effect.

 

I wave but a lot of the new min owners aren't that prideful to wave back. I think i got 4 waves out of 15

 

Somedays they wave and somedays they don't. I always do, figure they don't know me anyway, so why not. I got one from our very own NAM member, MNEEME, got a new MINI, looks real fine. So keep waving!

 

I've rec'd very few waves back here in Virginia.

While driving around our beach front area, it's a well known local crusing site, I've only rec'd two waves back from Mini drivers. One lady driver with her hubby in the passagener side even turned into a hotel parking lot in front of us and tried to do it without waving. Oh no, I wasn't letting that happen. DH was driving and I reached over and hit the horn many times. Scared the mess out of her co piloting hubby, but I finally got a wave.

 

Gee that is too bad. I have been down to the Beach a few times and haven't seen any other MINI's. But keep waving someone will wave back eventually

 

Just got back from a 10 western state tour including MITM and i'd have to say that 99% of the MINIS I passed or passed me waved

 

In this area theres a few minis. I get a lot of waves in annapolis, none in VA. I hate va.

 

I wave. I don't care if they wave back or not. Well obviously I CARE, because I'm happy when my wave is returned, but I do it regardless of the fact that I get a return wave maybe half of the time.

 

for me, waving died after the first few months. too many mini's around here. We aren't that special. I was never really down for it anyways. Yes we have the same car. Cool. I give a courtesy wave back to those who wave to me, but I am not out looking for 'em...

 

yes where i live waving is dead! :(

 

That in-town Atlanta, where there a (relatively) a lot of MINIs, the wave is pretty much dead.

Out in the 'burbs, it quite different - we seem to stick together in the face of all the SUVs and Pick-em-up trucks...

 

Got my first wave back in months, this morning. Passed a CR/B Cooper coming the other way, on my way to work.

 

I wave when I see the other MINI....although as of late I have been waving through the drivers window instead of rolling it down....but now that the weather is cooling down I am going to start rolling the window down and waving like a fool again.

 

Two things I don't do.....(1) give my car a name (2) wave to other cars.

 

In the small town I live in everyone waves at each other. MINI or not

 

Just keep waving, folks.... no matter what... its about good will... Heck.. I'm so bad that I keep waving (while in the MINI) at folks in MG's, S2K's, and 350z's -- just because I was passionate about them -- and the folks who shared my interest -- when they were my "drivers" -- Last week -- while in Alaska on vacation -- I waved at 3 MINI's -- while in my toyota rental car -- and got waves back from all three! ....

 

I wave to all the MINIs I see. The R53 MINIs all wave back for the most part (still a stick in the mud or two), but I have yet to get a return wave from the two new MINIs I have seen.

 

You know, I agree. The 53 drivers always throw you a wave. And honestly, the more features or aftermarket parts the car has, the more likely they are to wave. When I as working with Hondas, you were lucky to even get a finger from another Honda driver. BUT when I had my jeep, every one... wrangler, cherokee, etc... waved. I loved that about driving that thing, it was one of the few things I liked aout it. So my advice is to just wave. Sometimes they look at you like WTF, but then they get it, and maybe they'll wave to the next one they see.

 

Over in AUS i wave all the time. The people who usually wave back are the MCS owners... I guess they may have bought their car for more of a possionate reason!?