Today I'm driving along minding my own business. Thinking that I was going to put the "Italian Job" to the test because I was headed to the home improvement store to buy landscaping stone and I'd be hauling them home in my MCS.

So this couple in a big SUV honk at me and I wave and not think anything of it. Then they follow me and keep flashing their lights and I'm thinking, "oh no, did I cut them off? Are they mad at me?" I'm picturing road rage and all sorts of stuff. I pull into the parking lot (maybe a dumb thing but they were NOT going to give up) and they pull up next to me with huge grins on their faces. They wanted to tell me how much they loved my car. How the color was perfect, so classy. Then they wanted to talk about handling etc etc. They drove off quite happy, more informed and ready to go test drive one themselves.

You told me this would happen but I just didn't believe it.

 

ive never been pulled over by anyone, but whenever i get out of my car in a busy parking lot i always get the 3rd degree about the MINI

 

That must have felt good, maybe they'll be convinced to buy a MINI and join NAM

 

Most of the guys I work with can't help but tell me what a mistake it was to buy a Mini and how I am going to regret it. The real deal is that their wives wouldn't let them buy one even if they wanted to. That, and around KC we are still stuck in the "bigger-badder-SUV-is the bigger-badder-man" metality. Which is really hysterical when you see some guy about the size of Ross Perot climb down out of one.

 

Hey that's great!! They must have really liked your car...most folks won't go to that extreme.

 

I had a couple walk up to me at an Infinity dealer a few months ago and gush over Jango. I had to open him up and let them take a seat (I thought they were going to ask for a test drive...) while my wife wandered the new Infinitys

People still love our little cars... I know I do!

 

I was sitting at a light just yesterday, a double lane left turn, and looked over and there were 2 guys next to me in an Accord waving frantically. I wound the window down, and they wanted to know everything about my Cooper that I could tell them in the 60 seconds before the light changed. They could not believe it cost 19k. They loved it, too.

 

Today, I had an older couple at a VA Hospital stop and talk to me while I was waiting to pick up a friend. She was born in London and married her (American Solider) husband during WW2. She said what a cute British car. It looks just like a little cab. They were so sweet and have been married for 61 years! She said I could loan it to her anytime !!!

 

I still like the way kids just light-up when they see a MINI drive by. I keep a bike horn in the door pocket so I can give 'em a Clarabelle honk as I go by . . .

 

wow. People driving an SUV admiring a MINI.

 

My daughter was 2 when we got the 1st MINI's at the BMW dealer where I was the MINI tech. I would bring new ones home on test drives for lunch, and she would go nuts. Now my son is 2 and he is a certified car nut, MINI's are his favorite (of course). I remember the first 6 months or so that I test drove them on the hwy, it was like the commercial where the guys on his cell telling the wife he was stuck in traffic, and the camera pans out and its only 5 or 6 cars rotating around him. Not so good when its work, but still fun.
Happy Motoring,
--Dan

 

Stranger than fiction: Some of us actually OWN both an SUV and a MINI . . .

 

And... some of us sold one SUV to get our first MINI............... And then traded the second (and larger SUV) in on a second MINI

These cars are addicting

 

I am one of those but its a quad cab truck instead. It does the work that the MINI cant do....like pulling toys (boat, ATV's, cycles, another MINI), building supplies, and other goods.

 

I've had the same experience ever since I began motoring in August 2002! I really enjoy chatting with people about MINIs and am pretty sure I've gotten at least a few folks to take MINI test-drives.

 

haha cool experience!


I've had a few people give me thumbs up and little comments about my car. Funny thing is, the only two times I've had someone tell me to roll down the window and compliment me was when I was letting my friend drive.

 

Just yesterday at the huge Palisades Mall here in NY a guy was heading back to his SUV parked next to my antiSUV while I was on my way in to Best Buy.
I got a "Nice cah!" much to my surprise.

 

It's impossible for me to stop at a gas station without hearing the obligatory question, "What kind of gas mileage does that thing get?". I always have the same reply, " I have no idea. I bought it to race, not for gas mileage." It always leaves them with a "deer-in-the-headlights" look on their face.

 

Ya think?! Howdy, K!

 

Isn't it cool to have folks stop and ask about your Mini?! My husband likes to sit in the Mini while I'm in the store or pharmacy, etc. And he's taken to reading my Mini manual and stories on the Mini because so many people have approached him and asked him about the car.

 

If you REALLY want comments get a convertable and park it with the top open... People are forever craning themselves into the car to stare and they're certainly not shy when I walk up.

 

Why not . I own both .

 

Count us in as owners of MINIs and an SUV... an Infiniti QX4. Afterall, as much as we love the MCs, we also love Lowe's, Home Depot and all the local landscaping nurseries !

 

Trading my Honda CR-V for a Mini. Can't wait.

 

The experience I have been recieving latley has been coming from Harley Riders. I have had many "bad to the bone" Harley riders come up to me and start asking all sorts of questions. One of them just recent bought one and described it as "The most fun one can have on four wheels, without having to resort to a two wheeled machine"