For those of you lucky enough to already be driving your mini's, four questions.

1. When did you order your MINI?
2. Which MINI did you order?
3. Where did you order your MINI?
4. When did you take delivery of your MINI?

Optional MINIGATE question: What do you know and when did you know it?

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electric blue/white S on the way. Premium+sport wheels.

 

Q and A
1. Order date June 24th prodution slated for July 26th
2. MINI COOPER Jet Black / White top and wheels
3. Classic MINI in Mentor Ohio
4. Car arrived at dealer and I took Delivery same day August 30th

Complete time line
June 24th Order date
July 21 stage 150
July 22 stage 152
July 24 stage 155
July 25 stage 182
July 26 arrived at port / assigned to AIDA missed
July 27 to ISOLDE missed
July 31 to HUDSON LEADER missed
August 3 to DON JUAN
August 4 loaded on DON JUAN
August 13 ship arrived port NJ
August 24 received at VDC
August 28 MINI checked in and processed at VDC
August 29 MINI loaded on truck /shipped to dealer
August 30 MINI arrived at dealer / and in took delivery .

 

1. Ordered April 13, with a scheduled production date Jun 14 which was met
2. MC - red w/black roof
3. New Country, Hartford, CT
4. July 6
and I have been living happily ever after.

 

Ordered June 12,02, waited for 11 agonizing weeks, should be here this week Sept.5, 02. :smile:

 

Ordered March 20th
MCS Dark Silver with White Roof/Mirrors
Jacksonville, Florida
Recieved June 20th

 

Walked in and bought it on April 22nd. LTL YELO

 

1. Ordered on June 15th
2. MINI Cooper, Chili Red with white top and mirrors, sport and cold package
3. Crown Mini of Richmond (VA)
4. Last Saturday night, Aug. 30th!!!!

 

1. Ordered June 1
2. silk Green Mini Cooper, premium package, cold weather package, chrome bumper
3. Keeler MINI, Albany, NY
4. Took delivery on August 23

 

1. When did you order your MINI?
Answer: End of April....

2. Which MINI did you order?
Answer: Pure Silver/Black Cooper...plenty of goodies....

3. Where did you order your MINI?
Answer: Mini of Towson (Maryland)

4. When did you take delivery of your MINI?
Answer: August 3rd.....I LOVE IT!!!!

 

Went to the dealer, drove away with a Dark Silver S. I paid MSRP. The waiting period was the 2 hrs it took to complete the paperwork!

 

DS/B MCS (US Spec) with premium, sport, and cold weather packages.

Ordered 23 Jun 02 from Capitol Motors - Spangdahlem, Germany

Took delivery 29 Aug 02.

 

Ordered Mini #1 Jan 1, 2002
Was informed in March, 2002 that the dealership decided not to carry the Mini (how stupid can you get?) :smile:

 

Picked it out 8/10/02. Picked it up 8/13/02. The longest 3 days of my life!

 

A few days, but I bought mine used. Test drove an "S" at the dealer and fell in love with it. Was told I needed a $1000 deposit and 1 year wait. Decided not to do that and searched newspapers and online for a MCS. Found one below MSRP with all the package combos and color that I wanted a few states away. Waited several days to get bank financing and drive down to get it.

 

Was on a list for an S to be delivered in January. Jumped off of the lease and moved the deposit to an S set for an October delivery. (buyer backed out).

 

Ordered June 19

Mini Cooper

Keeler MINI Latham, NY

Produced July 26

Delivered August 29

Would have been here sooner , but spent 2 weeks on the docks waiting for a backlog of cars to clear the VPC.

 

Thanks a lot everyone! I ordered my MINI Sept. 4th, and the dealer says I should have it in time for Christmas. Talk about a great Christmas present! Thank you Santa!!!

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electric blue/white S on the way. Premium with sport wheels

 

When can you get a production number from your dealer. My dealer tells me my MCS won't be available till Feb-Mar of 03. :???:
I'd like to join the owners lounge but I'm not sure if they will have a production number at the dealer yet.

 

>>When can you get a production number from your dealer. My dealer tells me my MCS won't be available till Feb-Mar of 03. :???:
>>I'd like to join the owners lounge but I'm not sure if they will have a production number at the dealer yet.
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Generally, dealers don't get their allotment for an upcoming month until about 5 or 6 weeks before. So with Feb-March delivery, expect January build. So possibly by Thanksgiving you MAY have a Prod #.

 

can't wait to get my mini s.checked miniusa today and it shows a production date of 9/20 so i not to sure of how many days it takes to be born and delivered to sunny california.


on order mcs pure silver prem pac,sport pac

 

1. Faxed order 5/25, accepted 6/10 by MINI
2. Long Beach MINI, SoCal
3. MINI Cooper, Pure Silver/Pure Silver (see tagline below)
4. Arrived at LB MINI 8/28, took delivery that afternoon!

Hotcha!

Cheers!
Clover

 

Sorry for reviving an old thread, but the general subject seems timeless (so to speak) on this board

Reading the previous posts on this thread, it seems that almost everyone who took delivery of their cars in late August/early September had a wait of between 2 to 3 months.

I've just scheduled my pickup appointment with my dealer, and assuming that holds, my pickup date will be exactly 2 months and 2 days from when I placed my order. Interestingly enough, 2 weeks of that time was spent sitting on the dock in NJ and 1 week sitting at the dealer waiting for paperwork. It seems that both of those circumstances are a bit unusual and had to do with the flood of cars received at the NJ port at the end of August.

So, that said, I'm wondering about the validity of so many current dealer claims (reported in various posts) that MCSs are taking "6 months" or "a year" to deliver. This just doesn't seem supported by evidence, and such long order times would seem to be more the exception than the rule.

Maybe the folks who have just ordered, or who are considering ordering, should take heart...maybe your wait won't be as long as you think.

 

Our ordering/delivery went extremely smoothly and way ahead of schedule:

1) Placed order: 6/30/02
2) Received production number: 7/10/02
3) Car built: 8/7/02
4) Car loaded onto the Tanabata vessel: 8/8/02
5) Car reaches Charleston, SC Port: 8/22/02
6) Car is accepted by the VPC: 8/23/02
7) Car reaches dealer (Lauderdale MINI in Ft Lauderdale, FL): 8/26/02
MINI is finally delivered to us this past Saturday 9/7/02 (We were on vacation out of town for a couple of weeks, that's why we got the car until 6 days ago).

We ordered a standard Cooper with just CVT and Multifunction steering wheel as extras. I think this aided to quckly expedite the order. I have read about order delays for those who ordered their MINIs with Xenon lights, DVD Navigation, Rain sensing wipers, Harmon Kardon stereo, etc.

Having lots of fun!

 

I ordered and put down deposit 7/9
production date 8/16 finished on time
got on boat 8/21
arrived in NJ 8/30
transferred to VDC 8/31
work order issued 9/8
completed on 9/11 released to carrier
left NJ 9/12 am
should be at dealership 9/13 pm
should be able to pick up 9/14 (cross your fingers for me)

I ordered a MINI Cooper with all options except nav and park distance.

My dealership is Motorwerks MINI in Minneapolis MN. So far they have been good. I will let you know on Saturday.

 

I dunno 'bout that. I just ordered my red minimocha cvt at East Bay MINI (Pleasanton, CA) over the labor day weekend, and they told me I probably wouldn't see my car until May or June! That's a long wait, and, not to get all gross on ya, but I could have a BABY sooner than that. So now I'm debating whether or not I should just plop down the extra $1000 or $2000 that other Bay Area dealers are asking for to have it by December, or just visiting the folks over at Salt Lake City just to have my car 3 months sooner than Pleasanton's projected delivery date. Tough decision... :???: