Longtime Subaru driver here. I ordered a Solterra minutes after you could. (The Solterra is a rebadged Toyota EV, with a few changes for Subaru's customers.)
Two months ago I ordered an Iconic SE; its colour is Island Blue. I wish I'd known about the SE earlier this year. While I've admired the MINI Cooper before, somewhere I got the impression that the BMW powertrain couldn't be trusted. But what could go wrong with an EV, besides the wheels falling off?
The MINI sales guy said to expect it in February or March. He said that a Signature trim could arrive two months sooner. (He was really pushing the Signature trim.)
In the past two months in North Texas, I've seen a total of ten MINIs, including, I think, one Red SE parked at a Mosque. Two that I saw yesterday were looking forlorn because they were parked at Sprouts about 50' away from each other. Very sad. (It'll be hard to break my habit of parking next to other Subarus.)
And in the last two months I've received more mail from MINI about my SE order than I have from Subaru about my Solterra order since April.
I'm looking forward to receiving the SE. (Though, it was ordered with no demo available. And I've never actually sat in a MINI.) I'm just hoping that the Dollar/Pound rates remain favorable for MINI, and that the Oxford plant doesn't see any power shortages this winter.
A YouTube video on MINI production in England looked great. Lots of automation. In contrast, a Subaru of Indiana video that I recently saw looked lackluster. The MINI production workers all seemed a bit happier than their American Subaru counterparts.
Anyway, a quick question. I'm a ham radio operator who occasionally likes to put magnetic antennas on the roof of my car. Are the bonnet and roof of the MINI Cooper aluminium, or steel?
Two months ago I ordered an Iconic SE; its colour is Island Blue. I wish I'd known about the SE earlier this year. While I've admired the MINI Cooper before, somewhere I got the impression that the BMW powertrain couldn't be trusted. But what could go wrong with an EV, besides the wheels falling off?
The MINI sales guy said to expect it in February or March. He said that a Signature trim could arrive two months sooner. (He was really pushing the Signature trim.)
In the past two months in North Texas, I've seen a total of ten MINIs, including, I think, one Red SE parked at a Mosque. Two that I saw yesterday were looking forlorn because they were parked at Sprouts about 50' away from each other. Very sad. (It'll be hard to break my habit of parking next to other Subarus.)
And in the last two months I've received more mail from MINI about my SE order than I have from Subaru about my Solterra order since April.
I'm looking forward to receiving the SE. (Though, it was ordered with no demo available. And I've never actually sat in a MINI.) I'm just hoping that the Dollar/Pound rates remain favorable for MINI, and that the Oxford plant doesn't see any power shortages this winter.
A YouTube video on MINI production in England looked great. Lots of automation. In contrast, a Subaru of Indiana video that I recently saw looked lackluster. The MINI production workers all seemed a bit happier than their American Subaru counterparts.
Anyway, a quick question. I'm a ham radio operator who occasionally likes to put magnetic antennas on the roof of my car. Are the bonnet and roof of the MINI Cooper aluminium, or steel?
