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There’a a few MINIs that have done 100,000 miles or more – the first I knew of was back in July 2004, and more recently Don Burnside passed 100,000 miles (and I think is now over 130,000).

While I was driving coast-to-coast during MTTS, my friend Jason reached 100,000 miles in his 2003 VR MINI and wrote a great 100,000-miles-in-pictures on MINI2 (interesting that DB and Jason both have VR MCs – is that a prerequisite to reach 100,000 miles?!)

I first met Jason at the original 2002 MINI meander – second from left in this picture:

Since then, I see Jason once or twice a year – pretty well guaranteed to see him at British Invasion … Jason was also, famously, the driver of the “Marshmallow” at the original MINIsOnTop (2003), due to a moose encounter … this accident, and the rest of Jasons MINI history, is well documented on his MINI2 post.

Meanwhile, I covered about 8,300 miles in GBMINI#1, 28,000 miles in GBMINI#2, 22,000 miles (so far) in GBMINI#3 and 5,600 miles (so far) in GPMINI – a total only about 2/3 of Jasons count (but then he has a 200 mile drive each way to the dealership, while I have only 20 miles!)

Jason – it’s great to have you as a friend 🙂

In case you don’t know, I do still sell the original MINI circuit (auto-up windows, track mode DSC, garage opener control from MINI toggle switches) … I’m still missing two states (West Virginia & Montana) – if you live there and want to buy a circuit, get in contact!

(see here for how the map is created – although two years later, Google Maps is the way to do this stuff!)

For number fanatics like me, here is a chart of the average number of days to ship 50 MINI circuits (since I started keeping track!):

You can see the average time dropping prior to September 2005, with a frantic burst then, when I had planned not to sell the circuit any more – but OutMotoring cancelling their plans left me selling once more, but as can be seen at a much slower rate now – presumably due to the competition … I’d be fascinated to see similar data from them, but I don’t think it exists (or at least, it’s not made public).