What did you name your Mini and why that name?

znorc said:
Meet Elinor,



Elinor is an alternate Swedish spelling of Eleanor and "el" is a shorter Swedish word for electric or electricity. I could have gone for Elin as well, but Elinor felt more suitable.


Yes, I thought I was being a bit clever and funny.
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I like "Elinor" a lot. It's great to have another country represented on this forum. Welcome! Are there many MINI Cooper SEs in Sweden? Do Swedish buyers have a choice of trim levels?
 
insightman said:
I like "Elinor" a lot. It's great to have another country represented on this forum. Welcome! Are there many MINI Cooper SEs in Sweden? Do Swedish buyers have a choice of trim levels?
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Thank you!

ICE Minis are a fairly regular sight but SE's are pretty rare. It seems that it's a well kept secret in Sweden that the Mini is available as an EV. Everyone I've spoken to is surprised when I say it's an EV (that could also be due to my petrol-headedness). They didn't even know that it was available. Poor marketing from Mini/BMW, I suppose.

Yes, there's three trim levels. Essential, Experience and Maximise. I think you can figure out which is barebones and which is top of the line.

Mini Sweden are kind enough to have the pricelist in English, in case you're curious: https://www.mini.se/media/8614/f56-bev-customer-price-list-012022-se.pdf

Elinor is an Experience with the addition of H/K (it was an option at the time of ordering, now it's included in Exp.), adaptive cruise, piano black trim and tinted windows. The photos are showing the winter wheels. In a couple of months the summer wheels will go on; scissor spoke.
 
znorc said:
Thank you!
Elinor is an Experience with the addition of H/K (it was an option at the time of ordering, now it's included in Exp.), adaptive cruise, piano black trim and tinted windows. The photos are showing the winter wheels. In a couple of months the summer wheels will go on; scissor spoke.
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Elinor is a great name. My daughter had an 05 MINI Cooper named Eleanor Rigby.
And I have…


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GetOffYourGas said:
Mine kind of came with a name. When it was delivered, I was given a plate with the number "KEL ####". It made me think of the character from "Keenan and Kel" (yes, I know I'm dating myself). Kel is just a slightly quirky but very nice and fun-loving guy. I figure that description fits my Mini.


What a story! I love the name, and the license plate frame is even better!
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My wife picked up this little magnet for me to highlight the name.
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I ended up calling her Hilda. No particular reason why, just liked the name and thought it suited her.

Off-topic, but do other people have problems using this site on mobile? Typing is kind of finicky, the prompt is just ignoring a lot of my keypresses.
 
AppleBananaGigachadRatZoo said:
I ended up calling her Hilda. No particular reason why, just liked the name and thought it suited her.

Off-topic, but do other people have problems using this site on mobile? Typing is kind of finicky, the prompt is just ignoring a lot of my keypresses.
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Hilda sounds like a good name to me. Welcome to the forum!

Some forum members have complained about InsideEVs using up a lot of memory, but I don't remember mobile reponsiveness being a complaint. I use the forum as a diversion from work on my laptop and haven't experienced problems (although some members probably wish I did have a few problems to reduce my over-contributing).
 
I wanted something that seemed at least plausibly British for the name. My wife and I adopted a pair of male cats earlier this year and named the black one Bruce and the brown tabby Clark. Alfred then seemed the obvious choice for the car name, especially when considering the color.
 
I name my SE Rex in Latin means King bc SE is a King of the road.Also name Rex is of Anglo-Saxon origin where Mini Cooper come from Oxford UK .My different explanation came from my member name Rexsio which I made diminutive world of the name Rex which was my late dog name . My Mini Pincher 12 lbs and12” tall was really mini dog with big personality .SE with his name will stay for long in my memory without riding a car without HIM.
 
Rexsio said:
I name my SE Rex in Latin means King bc SE is a King of the road.Also name Rex is of Anglo-Saxon origin where Mini Cooper come from Oxford UK .My different explanation came from my member name Rexsio which I made diminutive world of the name Rex which was my late dog name . My Mini Pincher 12 lbs and12” tall was really mini dog with big personality .SE with his name will stay for long in my memory without riding a car without HIM.
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I am heading to England in late September to do a cruise out of the port of Southampton from which Mike Wazowski sailed to Canada. And two days before I sail, I will have a guided tour of MINI Plant Oxford where Mike Wazowski was built!


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My wife and I named our SE "Carlisle". Much like the others in this thread, we wanted to go with something English and this one seemed like the most obvious choice. :D
 
Ours is gonna be Sally, because my wife just came up with that out of the blue and it's technically going to be her car. Her brother - Scooter - is here waiting for her. He's a dark silver 2006 R53 that we've had since 2013.
 
I’m adding to this thread due to the creation of another on this topic. After one and half years of ownership of a 2022 Sig+, my wife and I will acknowledge that we are willing to same our SE. Soon after delivery, we considered the Oxford connection and chose “Endeavour” - brilliant, diligent, slightly flawed. Generally, we don’t name cars but I will report that my wife’s first car, a 1971 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, was known as “Mario.”
 
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