Saw a MINI Cooper SE at...

... my son's school. Some teenager doesn't know how lucky she is. Mine's in front.

 

Speaking of schools, yesterday I got stuck in the traffic jam of a school letting out. Much to my surprise I noticed an SE right behind me (but I don't think it was coming from the school). I think it was Island Blue with a black roof, but it was hard to see for sure in my rearview mirror. Unfortunately it eventually turned instead of catching up to me.

 

Saw a BRG with flipped up yellow mirrors parked at the mall at the corner of decarie/jean talon. That corner has a bunch of restaurants, like Dunn's and Amir.

 

I tried building a BRG J01 on the German site, and it kept switching the roof and mirrors to red. I gave up after a while…

 

Or the John Deere Edition! It is available in Canada as a ‘24. If they had gone the full Farmer Edition and added Brown Cow seats , Basil would have been in trouble

 

Apparently ALDI in Germany has a thing for MINI SEs:

 

I saw new leased one at a charger a couple of days ago. They had only had it for a couple of hours. They were happy they got it, but apprehensive about the range. I tried to ease there concerns a little bit (115+ in LA without trying). I was so excited just to see someone else with an SE. It's so strange to live in LA, in many ways an electric car capital, and only see a couple SE's (I see everything down here: Rivians, a billion Teslas, electric Mercedes, some Ford Lightnings etc.), and there's bunches of Minis running around, but I still feel like with an electric Mini I have a secret car that most people don't even know exists, and IT IS SO FUN! It is so difficult to describe the fun factor to other people.

 

What part of LA are you in? I am usually on the 405/101 driving back and forth to work. I see SE's from time to time.

 

not too far from 101/110. I have seen a couple, just very few compared with everything else.

not terribly far from the 110/101. I do see them on occasion as well. I guess I'm just a little surprised how rarely I see them. It just makes it feel all the more special.

I was watching something else on conversions from gas to electric. It's kind of like we got a full conversion from gas to electric with a full blessing from BMW/Mini, and without all the uncertainties of having some small shop do it for us. (feels like a future collector's item that happens to be AWESOME).

 

What were you watching?

My younger son (14) wants to do a conversion. I think a mini is the perfect platform for one bc of the abundance of cheap minis w bad motors.

 

On the freeway heading from St. Paul to Minneapolis, I saw a blue SE with a black roof and yellow mirror caps. Right behind it was a blue ICE Hardtop S, so with me we had a mini MINI rally going on.

 

I saw the all-black one that someone else had told me parks in our garage. That makes at least 3 of us in the same 5 story parking structure...not bad for the Midwest!

(There's also an ICE Clubman that parks on the 4th level with me and the BRG SE. I'm waiting for the day when they rule #1 so I can slip in on the other side to create an electric Club sandwich.)

 

Today I meet first time in 23 months SE in parking lot in Staten Island NY.Talk to owner he loves a car .Car is 2022 like mine .He bought with 11K.miles /$28K.with Winter Blizzak on.sunroof and leather sits beautiful SE .I noticed car have carbon fiber “vent” on hood with very dull matted finish drastically different than high gloss finish on front .He said is factory not aftermarket?

 

I think JCWs have carbon fiber scoops, so it could be factory but it sure didn't come with the SE. Previous owner must have swapped parts, since the F56 parts are (mostly) interchangeable.

 

Pulled into a strip mall lot and happened upon this guy I'd not seen around here before, a '24 BRG with white multitone roof:



How did I know it's a 2024? Because a day later I pulled into a spot at a different mall about 4 miles away and it was right there.



I met the owner. She got a good trade offer on her '23 and took advantage of a lower APR to chop $60 off her monthlies, while getting more features she wanted.