You heard it on WRR this past week. MINI Canada and MINI US each entered a ready-to-rock MCS in the Targa Newfoundland Rally. You also know that for the second year in a row MINI stood out from the crowd. Here’s a great pic of the MINI Canada entry, coming into the home stretch. Only …
Category Archives: Notes – Robert
Packed To The Gills
This is the loaded hatch that I mentioned in my voice message on the ‘Cleanout’ episode. It’s tight, but comfy, I’m told! And Todd, have a fantastic week. I cannot wait to see and hear the pics, the vids and all the podcast fun. Being in Canada, there’s no GP envy here. Those front bumpers …
The Spy Ads Are Here
Well, they’re actually not here. They’re there (in magazines, in the U.S.). The super secret kit is not available in Canada, but the first ad is now appearing in the August issue of Business 2.0. Check it out: If you have a spy kit, can you translate for your WRR friends around the world? We …
Good Plate!
I was back in Ottawa, Canada this past weekend. Check the license plate I spotted on a Cooper. (Note: the pic was taken with the lousy camera on my MOTO SLVR. For such a great phone, you’d think they’d toss in a halfway decent camera. But, no!). But it’s a terrific license plate for a …
Canadian ‘Rallye’ MINI
The Canadian ‘Special Edition’ MINIs are arriving. The ‘Rallye’ version is an S with Sport and Premium packages. The ‘Competition’ version is an S with those packages, factory JCW and Aero Kit. And we were told there would be no more factory JCWs in Canada. Surprise, surprise, eh? Oh, the wheels on the Rallye are, …
Wow! A MINI Vblog. Who Knew?
Now this is cool: http://www.vlogbymini.de A video blog by MINI in Denmark. Well worth checking out. Scroll down to see some pretty good stuff, MINI and otherwise. Gabe, you know all. What’s the story behind this? It’s worth yakking about on the podcast, methinks. =R=
A MINI Retirement Gig
Well, this is interesting. As you may know, 6 mos. ago I traded in my ’03 LY/B MCS (known as ‘My Sharona’) for an ’06 AB/S MCS JCW (Checkmate). The ’03 had Randy Webb all over it: pulley, intake, hot wires, the whole shootin’ match. I was at my dealer yesterday (for some reason ‘MINI …