Thinking of New MINI Cooper 2 Door - Cooper vs S ?
#151
Excellent news, tell her to put on some sun screen, it is wickedly hot down here.................
#152
Cold comfort I know (no pun intended...), but it was 102 where I am in Silicon Valley the other day...thought I was going to melt when I had to be outside...
Cooled off to only 93 today......
#153
Yeah, watch them offer $2500 off on 2019's ......................LOL
I fully expect to see some pretty nice incentives on dealer stock. Thinking they will be shutting down the 2019 orders as Jul 1 starts the new cycle.
So just ruminating here...suppose a person orders a car w/ say a $1000 incentive and then Mini comes out w/ a $2500 off all remaining dealer inventory. Could a person refuse delivery in which case the car goes into dealer inventory and then becomes eligible for the $2500 incentive. Naturally the dealer would have to go along with this maneuver, but in the end they (dealer) would still make the same profit while the buyer would have less out-of-pocket expense.
These are the things us retired people mull around in our noggins.to kill a day.....................LOL
I fully expect to see some pretty nice incentives on dealer stock. Thinking they will be shutting down the 2019 orders as Jul 1 starts the new cycle.
So just ruminating here...suppose a person orders a car w/ say a $1000 incentive and then Mini comes out w/ a $2500 off all remaining dealer inventory. Could a person refuse delivery in which case the car goes into dealer inventory and then becomes eligible for the $2500 incentive. Naturally the dealer would have to go along with this maneuver, but in the end they (dealer) would still make the same profit while the buyer would have less out-of-pocket expense.
These are the things us retired people mull around in our noggins.to kill a day.....................LOL
And as far as the incentives go, you don't lock that in when ordering. You get whatever is available at the time of pickup.
#154
Yes, very true indeed. My $2K off was if I ordered before 31 March and took delivery before 30 June (so far all is on schedule).....So the "inked" deal I have is based on that incentive.
#155
I just signed on a fully loaded iconic Countryman S All4 today.
My dealer said it just came out of production.
Bimmer.Work says the production date was 06-05-19... assuming that means start of.
Anyone else in this time frame, I guess soon to be waiting for a boat?
$2k off msrp but looks like I'm going to miss this month's $1500 off incentive. Hopefully there is something decent for July!
My dealer said it just came out of production.
Bimmer.Work says the production date was 06-05-19... assuming that means start of.
Anyone else in this time frame, I guess soon to be waiting for a boat?
$2k off msrp but looks like I'm going to miss this month's $1500 off incentive. Hopefully there is something decent for July!
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I just signed on a fully loaded iconic Countryman S All4 today.
My dealer said it just came out of production.
Bimmer.Work says the production date was 06-05-19... assuming that means start of.
Anyone else in this time frame, I guess soon to be waiting for a boat?
$2k off msrp but looks like I'm going to miss this month's $1500 off incentive. Hopefully there is something decent for July!
My dealer said it just came out of production.
Bimmer.Work says the production date was 06-05-19... assuming that means start of.
Anyone else in this time frame, I guess soon to be waiting for a boat?
$2k off msrp but looks like I'm going to miss this month's $1500 off incentive. Hopefully there is something decent for July!
This thread gives hope that there are still a few MINI customers willing to step up and motor in a new MINI.
Next month it will be time for me to put together my order and my deal on my next MINI. I went on the German MINI web site yesterday and played with their version of the configurator and was able to build a 2020 Clubman to see what the new exterior colors look like. Also saw the brown Clubman interior seating for the first time. Watching you guys follow your cars has given me the fever again, just when I thought I was over it.
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Congratulations. Hope it's as perfect as can be.
And thanks for sharing the adventure. You provided a lot of very useful information and insight throughout the process.
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#160
Here's a pix of the car as received. Wheels will be replaced, but at least its home. Car is pepper white with chrome line exterior (kinda diggin' the chrome brake ducts). (looks kinda "lemony" in the pix, must be the Florida Sun). It is actually pepper white.
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And I like the wheels as well as the chrome bits.
Enjoy it as only folks of our vintage can.... these young people got no idea,
Now plug in a little tuning box and MOTOR!!
#163
Nice!!! As a member of the satellite gray club, I will tell you you're gonna love that interior, though keeping the seats clean is an ongoing chore, in my experience.
And I like the wheels as well as the chrome bits.
Enjoy it as only folks of our vintage can.... these young people got no idea,
Now plug in a little tuning box and MOTOR!!
And I like the wheels as well as the chrome bits.
Enjoy it as only folks of our vintage can.... these young people got no idea,
Now plug in a little tuning box and MOTOR!!
What has been your experience with the seat cleaning?
#164
Thank you for the kind words. Very much appreciated.
Here's a pix of the car as received. Wheels will be replaced, but at least its home. Car is pepper white with chrome line exterior (kinda diggin' the chrome brake ducts). (looks kinda "lemony" in the pix, must be the Florida Sun). It is actually pepper white.
Here's a pix of the car as received. Wheels will be replaced, but at least its home. Car is pepper white with chrome line exterior (kinda diggin' the chrome brake ducts). (looks kinda "lemony" in the pix, must be the Florida Sun). It is actually pepper white.
One of my neighbors has the pepper white and it looks like yours color-wise.....
Enjoy!
#165
I just signed on a fully loaded iconic Countryman S All4 today.
My dealer said it just came out of production.
Bimmer.Work says the production date was 06-05-19... assuming that means start of.
Anyone else in this time frame, I guess soon to be waiting for a boat?
$2k off msrp but looks like I'm going to miss this month's $1500 off incentive. Hopefully there is something decent for July!
My dealer said it just came out of production.
Bimmer.Work says the production date was 06-05-19... assuming that means start of.
Anyone else in this time frame, I guess soon to be waiting for a boat?
$2k off msrp but looks like I'm going to miss this month's $1500 off incentive. Hopefully there is something decent for July!
#166
Congratulations.
This thread gives hope that there are still a few MINI customers willing to step up and motor in a new MINI.
Next month it will be time for me to put together my order and my deal on my next MINI. I went on the German MINI web site yesterday and played with their version of the configurator and was able to build a 2020 Clubman to see what the new exterior colors look like. Also saw the brown Clubman interior seating for the first time. Watching you guys follow your cars has given me the fever again, just when I thought I was over it.
This thread gives hope that there are still a few MINI customers willing to step up and motor in a new MINI.
Next month it will be time for me to put together my order and my deal on my next MINI. I went on the German MINI web site yesterday and played with their version of the configurator and was able to build a 2020 Clubman to see what the new exterior colors look like. Also saw the brown Clubman interior seating for the first time. Watching you guys follow your cars has given me the fever again, just when I thought I was over it.
Are there many new colors?
#167
#168
Agreed about the Mini not offering the gray door panels. Best we could do is add the Silver trim instead of the piano black for dash and door panels..
Something of note on the new 2019 cars.(drove me crazy). After we got the familiarization by the sales guy, I put in my thumb drive, and I could not get the music to skip to the next song using the steering wheel arrow key. (My 2015 allowed me to hit the arrow and it would go to the next song (either in an album or the next random song on the entire drive). The 2019 you have to press the "ok" button for it go. I had to go in and get the sales guy to get that one figured out.
Couple of odd ball changes since 2015 that I'm still trying to figure out. Like it's raining a bit today, and wanted the wipers set to auto (sensing) , 2015, there was a button you pressed to activate that feature (and they would remain in the auto sensing until the car was turned off), also as soon as the wipers moved, the headlights would come on. Now it's a auto setting in the stalk, but headlight do not come on when wiper makes the first swipe. Have to go into the manual to figure that one out..
The little stuff can make you nuts. :
#169
Something of note on the new 2019 cars.(drove me crazy). After we got the familiarization by the sales guy, I put in my thumb drive, and I could not get the music to skip to the next song using the steering wheel arrow key. (My 2015 allowed me to hit the arrow and it would go to the next song (either in an album or the next random song on the entire drive). The 2019 you have to press the "ok" button for it go. I had to go in and get the sales guy to get that one figured out.:
#170
Agreed about the Mini not offering the gray door panels. Best we could do is add the Silver trim instead of the piano black for dash and door panels..
Something of note on the new 2019 cars.(drove me crazy). After we got the familiarization by the sales guy, I put in my thumb drive, and I could not get the music to skip to the next song using the steering wheel arrow key. (My 2015 allowed me to hit the arrow and it would go to the next song (either in an album or the next random song on the entire drive). The 2019 you have to press the "ok" button for it go. I had to go in and get the sales guy to get that one figured out.
Couple of odd ball changes since 2015 that I'm still trying to figure out. Like it's raining a bit today, and wanted the wipers set to auto (sensing) , 2015, there was a button you pressed to activate that feature (and they would remain in the auto sensing until the car was turned off), also as soon as the wipers moved, the headlights would come on. Now it's a auto setting in the stalk, but headlight do not come on when wiper makes the first swipe. Have to go into the manual to figure that one out..
Couple of odd ball changes since 2015 that I'm still trying to figure out. Like it's raining a bit today, and wanted the wipers set to auto (sensing) , 2015, there was a button you pressed to activate that feature (and they would remain in the auto sensing until the car was turned off), also as soon as the wipers moved, the headlights would come on. Now it's a auto setting in the stalk, but headlight do not come on when wiper makes the first swipe. Have to go into the manual to figure that one out..
The little stuff can make you nuts. :
#171
Wish I could share in the fun, but as of this morning, I'm still on "arrived at the port" status, where I've been since May 28. Can't seem to get any additional information from either calling Mini directly or my dealer (although I was pretty laid back last time I called the dealer so might try again today a bit more aggressively to make sure they don't have some ability to get more up to date information than I can get on my own).
#172
Hope that makes sense
#173
Silver trim?....don't recall that option...think I went with some sort of gray option.
You probably selected the same option as I did. Think it was called "dark silver dash surface" trim. I changes the dash color and the black trim piece across the doors to a silver-ish gray..
Hmmmm................not sure I quite follow about the headlights turning on and wiper settings....i'm sure it's clearer when one has the car...
My old 2015 has the rain sensor feature (manually operated on the stalk end via a button) push the button and the sensor activates and keeps windshield clear of rain drops and also turns on the headlights
New 2019, has the rain sensor setting on the stalk. You can set it to automatic...and when it starts to rain, the wipers start (without having to manually enable the sensor like the 2015). The headlights on mine are set to "auto" and will come on when dusk. I did not notice them coming on when the auto wiper started (as it was misting this morning).....so I immediately started fiddling w/o much success. Finally got home, opened the book, made sure all the functions were set to auto and when I activated the wipers manually, there is appox a 3-4 second delay for the headlights to come on. I was jumping the gun earlier. I can only assume that when the wipers start automatically via the sensor, the headlights will click on shortly thereafter. Guess the only way to check that is to park the car with the engine running and hit the windshield with a hose.
Yes, indeed......
May sound a bit picky, but being former military, you write op orders so the village idiot can understand them (Napoleon understood this concept) otherwise there is room for misinterpretation and failure..
#174
Mine does also, but I have to press the ok button for that song to play (steering wheel only). The arrow keys on the center stack allows the next song to play without any further input. Just the steering wheel arrows need "ok" to be pressed. When I asked the sales guy why, he said, that way you can press the arrow key as many times as I want to get a song before selecting it. I suppose that makes some sense if you are listening to one album and want a specific song played. I use mine in shuffle mode so the song song is random anyway. So the old way was fine with me. If I didn't like that song, I'd press the arrow key again and the next random song would start. Now I have to press "ok" each time I use the arrows on the steering wheel for any song to play. Once it starts, it will play random song without further button pressing. Only when I want to skip a song, I have to press ok for playback to start.
Hope that makes sense
Hope that makes sense
#175
It makes sense, it just doesn't match what my Mini does. All I have to do is push the arrow on the steering wheel and it moves to the next song in my playlist and starts palying. Currently I'm shuffling by Genre (I haven't gotten my actual playlists exported to the USB stick yet).
I'm going to try it again and see if my first attempt was an anomaly. Yours operates as I would expect it too.
Although, on my 2017 BMW, there isn't an arrow key to go to the next song, but rather a small wheel which when turned lists the song playing and songs immediately after and behind that song, alphabetically. I can turn the wheel in either direction to select another song and push the wheel in to select...so it works similarly to the way my 2019 Mini works with the exception it doesn't display the next "random" song in the line-up, but rather the song alphabetically adjacent to the one playing. Again, odd-ball to operation to what I would choose for skipping a song, but maybe perfectly logical to someone wanting to look for a specific song (since the direct skipping can be done on the center stack w/o issue).
It is cumbersome if the song playing starts with an "A" and you want to hear a song that starts with a "W". I have 10,000 songs to scroll through to get to the song (or simply ask through voice command to play the specific song I want). This would probably work fine if you are playing an album w/ 13 songs...but for random play it isn't.
So many features are implemented by the engineers w/o ever testing them in a practical application. They come up with and idea and implement it and pat themselves on the back for their ingenuity.
I could rant on the color and illumination variances of the center display on my 2015 Mini. Red-ish orange lettering on a black screen, with some text dimmer (on purpose) than others. Was told it was to maintain night vision . Heck, night-time was the only time I could actually read it without a problem. Nearly impossible to read in the day light . Thankfully that is not the case with the 2019. Center stack info is clearly readable in all light levels at a glance. Hooray!
Update:
Just checked it again. arrows give me previous and next song (random) displayed on my HUD. Must push "ok" to select and play that song.
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