I called my dealer today and heard that my coupe is on a ship arriving in Brunswick GA on 11/3. Should be ready for pickup 3-7 days later so I should have it here in Atlanta by 11/10. I must be on a K line ship that left on 10/22 probably the California Highway same as JamesDay24 (they didn't give me that detail today). Glad it is finally on its way! I was thinking it was still sitting and waiting for transport so I am very happy!

 

3000 already! You've been doing some driving!

 

Congrats!!!!! Looking forward to seeing it around town!!

 

Seriously! I barely drive 3000 miles in a year

 

Thanks jbs111. Yours isn't too far behind mine.

MA just called and said that the PDI (Post-Delivery Inspection) and detail have been completed and so we're off to pick up our Coupe now. I'll try and post some pics of it some time tomorrow.

 

Congrats on taking delivery of yours, look forward to pics

 

If I only drove a car 3000 miles in a year I would spend next to nothing on a car. Don't know that I could justify the cost of a mini. I would have to buy a cheap Kia I think.

 

My wife's Coupe' was released from VDC to a truck company in Brunswick yesterday, but remains portside. The MA estimates it will not get on an actual truck until the weekend and will likely make the 668 mile trip so that the car will be here on Monday. At least the car has gotten a lot of time on the waterfront - eight days in Southampton and more than a week in Brunswick.

 

Sign me up - just put my deposit down on an order - might be December before it goes into production - the long wait has started.

As the order currently stands:
Color
B23 Spice Orange Body Color
Packages
ZTP Technology Package
6NM MINI Connected
7L5 MINI Connected with Nav System
Options
2GC_2RV 16" 6-Star Spoke Black
314 Heated Mirrors & Washer Jets
345 Chrome Line Interior
383 Black Roof/Mirrors
3A2 Black Headlamp Housings
3A7 Black Sport Stripes
431 Auto Dimming Rear View Mirror
494 Heated Front Seats
4BD Dash Surface in Piano Black
4C1 Carbon Black Color Line
522 Xenon Headlamps
5AA Rear Fog Lamp
5DT Dynamic Traction Control
785 White Turn Signals
ATE1 Cloth: Checkered Carbon Black/Black

 

One month post-order, I clearly needed to harass my MA. Lo and behold, my Coupe is in production, scheduled to complete 11/2.

Gotta give a big high-five to that online tracking which still says I'm on order, and 866-ASK-MINI who believes I'm scheduled for production pack. I know others have said they're a bit slow before but when even the customer service folks didn't know it had been in production for the last 4 days or so, that's just plain evil.

My MA seems to think it'll be here the week of Thanksgiving. I'd like some of what he's smoking.

 

Now we're getting somewhere - order placed 8/3/11, build slot rc'd 10/3/11, prod. completed 10/28/11 ('posidly) - chance of catching the fast boat to NYC 11/2 or am I dreaming?

 

Duplicate post - please ignore

 

Finally the Oregon Hwy has moored and unmoored hopefully car will be assigned carrier and be in Texas by 4th or 5th of Nov.

 

Ours was supposed to hit the dealer yesterday. Apparently though its still sitting in California. Just like the all of my order to date more tiem spent waiting. Was released to the carrier 3 days ago and has yet to move. Feeling a bit raw over the wait so far. I have the ealiest production id, have had to order placed since 7/16 and still find that everything continues to delay it finally getting here. Pretty much means there is no chance that I will be getting the coupe this month and even worse just sitting in limbo.

 

Our Babies are on U.S. Soil!!!!! Should be in Charlotte soon!!

 

I feel for you, jdurdick. I'd been trying to give my order to my dealer since about mid-July as well, which they finally took on 8/6 and entered into the system on 8/8. Mine is still making its way across the Pond and won't be close to delivery until about 11/9 at the earliest. My MA is off 11/11 so my delivery date is looking like 11/12, still two weeks off.

 

Can't talk your MA into delivering ASAP? Or you don't want to inconvenience them?

 

Guess they have been pushing on the trucking company and have yet to get traction, they have four cutomer cars waiting for transport, three fo which where there even before mine. Don't have the fondest feeling right now for Waggoners Trucking.

 

My MA told me the new trucking company has been a near disaster from Day 1, and has not improved. But they saved money!!! Lesson: you get what you pay for.

 

I lost the reply I had typed out. Essentially I don't want to make my MA come in on his day off. Hope to get it on 11/10.

 

Hey, Pat -- saw you in your coupe a couple days ago. Didn't know who it was, so I put a post on PSMINI and was told it was you! Very nice! Congrats!

 

Hi All,

Sorry to be so late on posting pics of our new Coupe.

It's the best looking and most fun driving car that we've ever owned to date by a long shot (including all four of our other MINIs). We've been having an absolute blast driving it around town the last few days.

Anyway, as promised, here are some pics of it for you guys (sorry that they kinda suck, I'm an awful photographer):













The Coupe looks absolutely amazing in person... None of the pictures do it any justice at all. You really have to see one in person and drive it in order to appreciate everything that the car has to offer.

We're really happy with our spec as well... We kept it pretty basic this time around. Our last R56 had more than $11k in options on it but we're done configuring cars like that now. Thus, we kept the options on our new Coupe to the bare minimum and only went with the options that we felt we'd actually use on a daily basis, and/or those that make the look of the Coupe to us.

We're totally LOVING everything about it!

 

Looks great sir. Congrats!

 

Thanks. Love the look of yours too! We really wanted Spice Orange but couldn't get it with the JCW Package and so we went with White Silver instead.

We plan on keeping our Coupe 100% stock. The only thing we're going to do to it is tint the windows (as we do with all our cars). Love the look of your Coupe with the tinted windows. It really blends the top in with the rest of the car.

 

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Lovely , but it's making the wait for my White silver feel even longer! Lol ... 5 weeks till delivery