MTTS kick off video

Posted on by Ian C.

Here is a (1-1/2 minute!) video of this mornings start to MINI Takes The States, with marching band accompaniment and worldwide MINI VP Kay Segler leading and waving the flag! The first GP heading off is being driven by MINI USA VP Jim McDowell.

Sorry it ends a bit suddenly – my camera decided the batteries were dead 😦

WARNING: 25MB file!

UPDATE: You might also like to check out this YouTube video (nearly 6 minutes) from McLeonard that covers much of the event (but lower quality than above due to YouTube compression)

MTTS day 1 – Beach party then South on California Highway 1

Posted on by Ian C.

The MINI Takes The States beach party kicked off MTTS this morning, followed by 5-6 hours drive south, much of it on fabulous twisty California Highway 1:

 

A few extra GPMINI specific pictures on  California Route One – including GP0203 reaching 0203 miles!

 

A couple of minor issues on the day – I don’t like sand so I’d have preferred a pebble beach! The for sale merchandise was apparently more popular than MINI anticipated, with long queues as a result – and it closed during the speeches leaving people that had queued a long time with nothing! Hopefully MINI will put more staff on later legs …

Also, many MINIs arrived well before any of the organisation staff, and were lost trying to find the non-yet-existing meeting place! I think they need to send a car ahead of the pack.