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Author:  speedy [ Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Question for new MINI owners
Driving home from work yesterday in the mini I would have spotted at least 8 MINIs, not one wave or sideways glance. My conclusion, a good deal of MINI owners aren't car enthusiasts, but car owners. 8)

Anyway, do MINI owners wave to each other?
Author:  1018cc [ Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:47 pm ]
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You will get the occasional one that IS a car enthusiast but as you said, to most people it is just a car, like any other.

I always get so many more waves from classic mini owners when I am in my mini.
Author:  Babes [ Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:31 pm ]
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i wave to all new and old, get some strange looks from time to time but always wave regardless.

MINI - MINI almost always a recipricol wave, unless its yellow for some reason they tend to be non wavers. But i admit alot of MINI owners are not enthusiasts and dont get the whole community thing of owning a MINI or mini. I have had the fingers a few times from mini owners but i shrug that off thinking you wouldnt do that if you saw how wicked my 1970 mk2 cooper s is sitting at home.
Author:  DOZ [ Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:17 pm ]
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I get the occasional wave when driving my MINI from MINI owners. If I wave first then I usually get a wave or a late toot from Mini owners

Daniel
Author:  speedy [ Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:44 pm ]
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DOZ wrote:
If I wave first then I usually get a wave or a late toot from Mini owners


That's the spirit! :)
Author:  brett [ Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:58 pm ]
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I usually get a wave, there again I usualy flash the lights and hand out the window!!
plus with plates that say MINI usually stand out and noticed by other mini owners
Author:  superSeven [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:30 pm ]
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I never got waves when in my MINI.. and i felt too embarassed to wave to classic mini owners. so no waves for me.

so i sold the MINI.
Author:  MorrisSCooper [ Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:55 pm ]
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speedy wrote:
Driving home from work yesterday in the mini I would have spotted at least 8 MINIs, not one wave or sideways glance. My conclusion, a good deal of MINI owners aren't car enthusiasts, but car owners. 8)

Anyway, do MINI owners wave to each other?


Your conclusion is correct, more so with later model MINIs and especially in the big smoke. Typically MINI owners respond to exaggerated waves and flashing lights from the MINI. I reckon I get more response from MINIs in the Mini actually! :shock:

On the subject of waving, it seems that Mokes are visible to me from another dimension. Unfortunatly they seem to mostly NOT see MINIs wave and only sometimes see Minis in my experiences. So what if I open the door and wave? :lol:

Not waving, but here is a curiousity of mine. Maybe it's luck but on driving back and forth through the same Police RBT twice in each mini within one hour, I got pulled over twice (in the MINI) but the Mini was waved thru. Again and again I get waved thru in the Mini. Does anyone else feel like they get waved thru every time they enter a RBT in a Mini?
:?:
Author:  andbat [ Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:59 pm ]
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been through many a RBT in the mini, gone extra slow so i can be pulled over to, and i'm on my p-plates, but i have only been pulled over once.
Author:  1018cc [ Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:26 pm ]
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I've only ever been pulled over for a RBT in a EF Falcon - maybe because I looked young? Or it was probably because they were pulling EVERY car over :)
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