I woke up this morning ready to go to the gym and decided to look at the MINI site one more time. That, combined with my financing coming through at a good rate, pushed me over the edge. I hopped in my Honda Element and drove like a bat out of you-know-where to the MINI dealer. I left with a deposit receipt in my had, a smile on my face, and an eight week wait for my new dream car.

Here are some details:
2008 MCS in Pepper White with Pepper White roof
JCW carbon fiber hood scoop
18inch JCW R105 wheels
Redwood Red leather interior
Piano black dash
DSC and LSD
Xenon headlamps
Rear fog lamps
Chrome line interior
Leather multifunction steering wheel
Hi Fi sound system
Bluetooth/iPod adapter
MINI cooper S illuminated sills
wheel locks
alarm

Total configuration price of $31,059 but aprox $410 extra for installation of acessories. East Bay MINI in Pleasanton, CA (the Bay area) sells cars at MSRP and as you know there isn't much chance of a discount. However, I told my MA that I wanted it for the price listed and asked for the installation waived to which he replied "so you want a discount"? I said I would put a deposit down today and get that car if he agreed. Well, after he took a couple trips back and forth to check with some folks, he shook my hand and said congrats on being a new MINI owner! So I am pretty excited and now have to wait eight weeks for delivery.

The only thing now is that I wonder if I will want JCW carbon fiber side mirrors to balance out the car. I think that may be sharp with the all white and carbon fiber hood scoop. In fact, I may consider the JCW carbon fiber hatch handle too. I think those few dark touches will be quite a nice contrast on the all white car, yet still be a "cleaner" look than sport stripes.
I also plan on tinting all the windows darker (esp rear ones) so that will make the "midsection" of the car look black. SO I figure it will be (from the top) white, black, white, black-if you catch my logic.

Ok, now that I have been a total geek, I want to say hi to everyone. Hi!

-Sherri
p.s. Isn't it great to have a forum where we can wax poetic about our cars and people understand?

 

Sherri, welcome that will look great. How the hard part is waiting.

 

Congrats on an awesome build! If I still lived in the Bay Area, I would have gone to East Bay MINI! Your def. going to have MINIexperience there! Your car is going to look awesome, and I cant wait for the pictures!

 

way to go, that's a really nice car

"enjoy" the wait

 

Nice specs! Congrats on your MINI! What're you going to name it?

 

Welcome to the tribe. Sounds like one great MCS.

 

Thanks for the welcome everyone! I can't wait to get it and will post pics when I do. The nice thing is that it will look 95% like I want it to when I pick it up. I may do some mods as time goes on, but in general I want to keep it fairly "clean". I toyed with sport stripes up until today in fact. I figured I'd go plain for now since I can install them later. Plus if I do decide I want them later it will be like getting a new paint job or something. haha!

The best part is that all the MINI's look great regardless of colou; they are just one sweet ride.

 

Hi Sherri,

Congrats. Sounds like a nice setup. I think the carbon fiber would look good on PW/PW.

You can always add stripes later, if you wish, and there are some great third party stripes available from Aesthetic Creations and Cooper Flags (see vendor list).

 

Congrats! =)
If you dont know already, there's a thread out there "somewhere" with a bunch of different ways to track your mini through it's process. My MA didn't tell me any of that so i didn't find out until Zoe was already here.

Happy waiting!

 

Welcome to NAM!

 

Welcome to NAM and the longest 2 months of your adult life....

 

"here, here!" *cheers!*

 

Congrats!!

I ordered my car from East Bay Mini at the beginning of March and they were very helpful throughout the process.

 

Did you deal with Blair or Jesse?

Congrats!! Now you get to sit around dreaming about your car for the next month + . Additionally, if you really want to drive yourself bonkers check out the topic "How to track your mini" in the 1st Gear forum.

BTW East Bay will take good care of you, their sales team really works hard to make your experience a good one. I had ZERO problems with them and felt very comfortable with my purchase.

 

Welcome to the MINI world and Congrats on your order!

Donna

 

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! !

That sounds like one hot looking MINI !! Good story, too, thanks for sharing.

 

BMiniW08. I noticed you have a black car. I guess that makes me the inside out version of you! haha. I must say I have seen a couple black MINI's and they look sweet. What I love is how anything looks good on them; chrome, white, sharp colors like red, etc. I toyed with that color too but figured the Bay area traffic is bad enough without someone potentially not seeing me. In my old Honda Accord I was rear ended two times by (apparently not too observant) drivers while I was sitting still at stop lights! It was their fault each time, but still. A lot of folks here drive very poorly.

I have always been a blue car kind of girl and never even liked white or cream cars. The Pepper White has such a nice creamy finish though, and different than most whitish cars I have seen. Plus, the MINI is so small that a "non colored" car works.

 

Hi MiniChaser,
Not sure on a name yet, or if I will name he, she it... I guess I have eight weeks to think about it.

 

S,

I got lots of overtime in trying to keep my mind off the slowly rotating earth. And I'm a guy who never treated a car like anything but a tool. Now, I'm the guy who has washed his MINI every week and waxed it every ten days.

Congrats.

 

Sounds like you had a good day! Good luck with the wait!

 

I was going to ask the same thing I also got my MCS at eastbay mini from Blair.

Who did you get it from and how was your delivery experience?

 

Actually, as it turns out none of the above. I started with Robert this passt Sunday and when I called he was out today. I thought about waiting but just couldn't. I ended up dealing wiht Pau, who as it turns out, was the one someone at work recommended but I couldn't remember his name. He did say they can do a 50/50 split of commissions or something like that.

They were both really sweet. My experience was great and as I noted, Paul gave me a $410 break! I live in Oakland near Berkeley so technically Concord is closer, but I heard such good things about East Bay that I went there.

 

Sorry for all the typos! I was rushing and didn't proof.

 

Gratz, I'm rounding out my first week as a MCS owner, and let me tell you now, you won't be disappointed!

 

too bad you didn't know how to negotiate.