MINI USA Announces LET’S NOT MOTOR DAY | Friday, June 5
In honor of World Environment Day on Friday, June 5th, MINI USA is celebrating with Let’s Not Motor Day – a day to leave your car in the garage, organize a walkpool and take the pedal off the metal. Shift your mindset instead of gears and join MINI in pledging the miles you aren’t going to motor. To learn more and pledge miles, go to www.LetsNotMotorDay.com. And let’s see just how far not driving a single mile can really take us.

 

Some perspectives on this idea from MINI thus far:

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ay-2009-a.html

Me, I like it. Glad to see NAM supporting it, even if it has become a sort of advertising tool. Thanks!

 

Sorry, I can't bicycle 60 miles to the doctor appointment. However, I should be able to avoid motoring until 1700 Z, which will put me in solidarity with the work day of our European MINI brethren and sistren

 

Hey more open road for me ......can't say this really moves me...

 

As wandrur said...check out the other thread. We've been discussing this for days!!

 

yeah.. no issue here, I think it's very cool.. I mean most people who have mini's are sooo fired up to do the Motor on! thing.. won't hurt to park it for the day

 

noted.

i guess i'll pull out my G35C that day then.

 

So, I park my 30+mpg MINI for a day and make my appointed rounds in my 17mpg F150? I don't see the value in this instance.

 

For me, riding my bike to work and back home (40 miles roundtrip) will be an opportunity to get some exercise and when back in my mini I will appreciate it that much more.
We are a country where people drive to the gym to work out and complain about the cost of gas....




My other car is a 15 year old road bike

 

Oh yeah....you're absolutely right. This isn't going to work for everybody...it is more symbolic in nature than anything else. With all that given, in the big picture of things, I think it is a harmless....and for some maybe even beneficial....thing for MINI to participate in.

 

Spoke only for myself. Many will benefit; bike riders and walkers and every participant will have the thrill of looking forward to resume motoring the very next day.

 

Funny thing is i will probably be test driving Minis on Friday. I hope this doesn't affect anything.

 

I pledged!

 

um...i saw like 10 MINI's this am... lol
stupid promo.

but hey, my MCS is in my garage... THE ENTIRE WEEK.
so congrats to me.

 

Thanks for reminding me. Think I'll take the long way to get to the drive-in tonight. Maybe I'll run my engine the whole 2 hours too. Better chance that the tooth fairy will make an appearance tonight than this silly promotion acccomplishing anything.

 

No can do for me. I had to drive into work today (and everyday for that matter). Gotta pay for a new set of wheels somehow

 

Well, I added in my miles saved for today, but I stopped driving to work 10 years ago in favor of riding the commuter rail. I do enjoy not having to fight traffic...around here you can hardly call that motoring. I prefer to save time in my MINI for the times I can actually enjoy it.

For those of us who keep track of MINI's more frugal capabilities, this has been quirky fun...nothing more. Still.....appreciated.

 

If I had my mini then I would of had to drive it twice as much that day. Even if all the minis had park that day it would not of even put a dent in what Nancy Pelosi burns in her jet flying her back and forth to Dc to California every week.

 

i enjoy thinking outside the box but this idea seems impossible in todays world of running around like a chicken with my head off everyday i got things to do people to see can't walk from point A-B world what day ? who came up with this

 

Oh-Oh... bad choice of days...
that's the day of the MINI Pub Meet near Cleveland Ohio.
A great event with lot and lots of Minis, MINIs!!

 

Hell yeah, spite the hippies!

 

I'll up you by one and I won't drive my mini for that entire week. I will be on vacation and my mini will be a few thousand miles away.

 

I think something was lost in translation...this was a June '09 trial balloon.

June 5th isn't even a Friday this year. They would never try to do this on a summer Saturday with MINI events planned by local clubs all across the land.

 

This is the worst idea I've ever heard. Ride a motorcycle, drive a car, drive your truck. Keep the economy healthy. Millions depend on it. I rode my Yami 150 miles to meet some fellows for breakfast today. That's why we work.