I'll spare you all the details, but I finally narrowed it down to a MINI Convertible S in July and placed my order with the dealer. Here's the rendered image of what I ordered:
It looked as if the turnaround time was going to be nearly 3 months! Well, it was...
I finally received my shiny new MINI on October 5 at 11am. (I've recently learned that "MINI" in all capital letters refers to the new, revived MINI line. Without caps, it refers to the classic Mini cars.) In any event, the car only had 5 miles on it and it smelled wonderfully of that "new car" smell. To top it off, the temperature was in the high 70s that day so I immediately put the top down. :)
Here's a picture I took shortly after I got it home:
It looks kinda orangy compared to the rendered image, but trust me, it's not. (The time of day and our yellow house I'm sure had a lot to do with the difference.) However, notice the stripes are missing on the hood. I had them on my original order, and I'm pretty sure I had them on the order I placed with the dealer, but when I review it before it was placed, there was another glaring omission that I had them fix. Of course, the only way to fix it was to re-enter the order again from scratch. I believe it was this second dealer order that inadvertently dropped the bonnet stripes. Luckily the stripes are a free option on the Sport package, which I did purchase. I go to the dealer this Wednesday to have them put on (apparently they are a dealer-installed item anyway).
In any event, I LOVE IT! I'm constantly making excuses to run errands in it. I even joke about purposefully forgetting an item or two from the store just to "have" to run back out to get it. :)
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