Decembers MINI sales were announced today:
MINI USA sales chart
Decembers total sales was 3,810, with 3,363 in November; the total sold in USA is just 3,368 shy of 100,000! So will the total break 100,000 in January? We will see …
Meantime, with 4,637 Convertibles in USA, they are becoming much more “common” – almost 5% of MINIs are now convertible 🙂
M&I / GBMINI 
Do these reflect minis delivered or minis ordered?
You’ll notice that the cooper has outsold the MCS up until the last few months. If it were minis ordered, that’s why orders would start to come in for jan 05+ MCSes, which finally off automatic—which is why I would expect the previously greater sales of coopers.
This is “sales” data. I suppose it could be “sales to the dealership” but I think it is real live actual sales to customers.
Interesting semi-related info on MINI2
Here we read that MINI sold 43,660 cars in UK, so USA is at 82% of UK at the moment.
However, MINI accounts for 1.7% of UK sales, while in USA, MINI sales are less than 0.25%!
(link found via MINI2 news feed)