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Our UK rental …

Posted on July 21, 2012February 17, 2017 by Ian C.

In England for a month, we’ve got a Diesel powered VW Golf! Not big, our three cases precisely filled the boot (trunk):

But on the 100 miles so far, Heathrow to Bath, the car is claiming over 60mpg! Even considering UK gallons are 10% bigger, that’s an amazingly efficient engine (needs to be, with fuel double the price of USA) …

UPDATE: First tank of gas took us 529 miles, and 51 litres to refill. That converts to just under 13.5 US gallons, so almost 40mpg! It cost 69 pounds = $108, so $0.20/mile. Not bad.

MTTS2012 water fight

Posted on July 16, 2012April 6, 2017 by Ian C.

The end of MINI Takes The States 2012 – the plan apparently was to surprise Jim McDowell, who had been squirting everyone with a little pistol, but he was ready to retaliate!

Also on YouTube

The end of MTTS2012

Posted on July 15, 2012February 20, 2017 by Ian C.

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!