I did some sleuthing and found the NEAT VPC in NJ on Google Earth:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
<Placemark>
<name>NEAT Auto Center, NJ</name>
<LookAt>
<longitude>-74.0691928055855</longitude>
<latitude>40.6690800212125</latitude>
<range>439.8573081852477</range>
<tilt>-1.569278315689486e-010</tilt>
<heading>0.05261434500513536</heading>
</LookAt>
<styleUrl>root://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x307+hicon=0x317</styleUrl>
<Point>
<coordinates>-74.06917118595331,40.66944037159752,0</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</kml>

Big batch on MINIs on the southeast side, near the water. It's a little blurry, but you can find the bonnet stripes pretty easily.

Any other MINI sightings from the sky? I couldn't find the Port Hueneme VPC from the air...

--dwf

 

You have entirely too much time on your hands...

 

 

 

If you enter "Port Hueneme, CA" into Google Earth and zoom in, someone has entered icons to show where cars are unloaded and parked. Zoom out a bit and go directly east a short distance, there is a vehicle processing center with more icons.

 

Yikes! That's a lot of MINI's.

 

Southampton, England...departure point from the UK.

Enter... N 50 degrees 54' 30.06" / W 1 degree 26" 39.48"

 

Well, I can't be sure but if you look at 51 degrees, 43 minutes, 56.71 seconds north and 1 degree, 11 minutes, 8.65 seconds west, I am pretty sure you will see MINIs being loaded at the rail siding of the plant in Oxford, England....

Bill

 

when i checked out where i worked, it showed my 02 WRX from years ago.

 

I don't see anyone's icons but mine. How do I see the communities icons? I realize this is a Google Earth question and not a MINI one.

I did find the multi-level garage that is in the photo above.

--dwf

 

I discovered that I see the icons because I have the "Google Earth Community" layer turned on. The layers selection is at the lower left corner in Google Earth.

Enter this location for the unloading port: 34 9' N, 119 12' 15" W
There are two icons, "cars arrive on ships like this" and "get parked here".

Enter this location for the VPC: 34 9' N, 119 10' 7" W
Two icons, "are driven individually to this lot", and "go on car carriers here".

I don't see a multi-level garage at Port Hueneme. By the way, regular BMWs also arrive at Port Hueneme. You can distinguish MINIs mostly because they are hatchback (no trunk visible).