We have been informed by a friend at MINI USA they are going to send out an e-mail today on the subject of the MTTS 2008.

As I wrote in this month’s magazine column, it will likely be e-mailed to everyone that gave MINI their e-mail when they signed up for the 2006 MTTS event, plus the obvious of loading it into their own site, using the Owner’s Lounge.

They want our collective input as owners about when, where, and what we want, as well as the ideas of do we want a national event from coast to coast, an event with a national collection point to which we all travel to assemble, or even regional events, as we travel to one national collection point? The questions are as numerous as the needs and personalities of we the MINI owner collective.

It’s your turn to tell MINI. The MTTS 2006 had about 4,000 drivers, and 45 coast-to-coast die-hards. From our perspective, we will take what you all vote on and MINI presents, but we will vote for a national focus point outside a major metro. No more city hotels, we want to park our own MINI, rub elbows with everyone, and travel in large convoys from all over our nation with lots of clubs hosting “surprise and delights” along the backroads of America. The clubs are up for it!

I’m off to Frankfurt and Madrid with video camera and notepad, so I’ll talk with you from Europe in a few days. Please visit our Website (www.mc2magazine.com) starting Tuesday.

Watch for MINI’s e-mail, or visit their website today,

Barry Brazier (Sunday Driver), Publisher, MC2