Early Sunday morning, George drove us down to Malibu through some nice canyon roads, meeting Mark & Teresa for breakfast …
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After breakfast we drove through Malibu to join the hundreds of other MINIs for the last morning of MINI Takes The States 2012:
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More breakfast (which I didn’t need), and final speeches from MINI USA, with many thanks all round! Then came the water, but it all ended with a kiss …
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(check out the license plate)
Very pleased to have joined George, Mark, Teresa, Todd, Debbie, Janet, Robert and all the MINI folks – Surely no other company in the world can create such fun for their customers!
M&I / GBMINI 
So what did IC think of the new GP?
Robert, I felt that it was a “mimic GP”. The wheels have styling like a GP, but with filled in spokes rather than the original. The color is dark grey, but it doesn’t have the fabulous richness of color change that the original has. The decals add nothing much.
Maybe the interior will be special, but I doubt it. Definitely it will beat the original on acceleration and handling – and I guess most GP buyers want ultimate performance no matter the looks.
But at $38K? Ouch!
My sentiments exactly!