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Last Call: Mickey & MINI 4 Registration

With just a few days left to get your Mickey & MINI 4 registration in, what are you waiting for? Over 260 MINIacs have already sent in their registrations and are making preparations to converge in Orlando for one huge party!! Don’t delay and make sure you are part of the largest Mickey & MINI yet. For those early birds who will be arriving Thursday, we have made some reservations at a Disney restaurant to kick the weekend off right. Check out the link below to add your name to the Thursday night dinner list. See you there!!

Mickey and MINI 4

[ Mickey & MINI 4 Website ]
[ Mickey & MINI 4 Forum ]
[ Thursday Night Dinner Sign-Up ]

MINI Events

Mickey & MINI Deluxe Registration About To End

If you have been putting it off, DON’T wait any longer!! Deluxe registration for Mickey and MINI 4 will only be open for a couple of hours before it is closed for good! Join the rest of the 230+ MINIacs who will converge in Orlando, Florida in one month to be part of the largest MINI meet in the Southeast. Get ready to “Motor The Magic” and have a blast. Register NOW before it’s too late.

[ Mickey & MINI 4 Website ]
[ Mickey & MINI 4 Forum ]

MINI Events

Mickey & MINI 4 Registration Breaks Records

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With only a few more days to register for Mickey & MINI 4, 217 people have registered so far! That is more than double what we had last year!!! The number of people that are coming from outside the state of Florida is simply amazing. There are reports of people shipping their cars to the event and others planning long caravans across various states. If you have not had a chance to register, what are you waiting for? Come join us for an awesome time!

Mickey and MINI 4

[ Mickey & MINI 4 Website ]
[ Mickey & MINI 4 Forum ]

MINI Events, Modern MINI

Mickey & MINI 4: Hotel Rooms Going Fast!

If you are one of the 100+ registrants who have already registered for Mickey and MINI 4 and have been holding off on booking a hotel room at the host hotel, you may want to book ASAP. Rooms are filling up FAST and there are not too many rooms left at the discounted $89/night event rate. To help make sure that as many rooms are available for registrants, the organizers of the event are asking the hotel to honor the special event rate only to those who have actually registered for Mickey and MINI 4. This will help prevent those who try to get the hotel discount without actually supporting the event. Even if you register for the $10 base registration package, you will qualify for the discounted room. So what are you waiting for? Register for Mickey and MINI 4 today and book your hotel room now!

[ Register Now For Mickey & MINI 4 ]

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Video Media Coverage: MTTS 2008 Miami

I think this is the best media coverage to date that I have seen for MINI Takes The States 2008. It was aired on Univision and shows quite a few of our MINIs. Even if you don’t understand Spanish, you get an idea of how much fun we had. Look closely and you will see some familiar faces, including Pedro Vidal, who raced in the La Carrera Panamericana of 2007 and our good friend Alex Fuentes (nice job on the interview Alex!). Enjoy!

Audio & Video, MINI Events, Modern MINI

Video: MTTS 2008 – Day 2

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First of all, sorry for the delay in getting this video posted. Priorities had to shift when my 4 year old got a stomach virus and between taking him to the ER and various doctor appointments, let’s just say that editing video just did not make the list over the past week or so. Anyways, here is the video for day 2 of MINI Takes The States 2008 from Miami, FL. I had a lot of footage to sort out and wanted to include as many different MINIs so that, if you were there, your MINI hopefully is shown. I tried to cover as much of the rally as possible, without it getting too long. I hope you enjoy it!


The day started early with a continental breakfast at Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami, courtesy of MINI USA. The number of MINIs/Minis that showed up for the owners-only rally appeared to be over 300. For me, it was the largest number of Minis I had ever seen in one place – very cool!
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Video: MTTS 2008 – Day 1

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Between catching up on sleep and trying to figure out how to use my new Mac, I feel like I am playing catch-up lately after last weekend’s MINI Takes The States kick-off in Miami. I finally got to play with iMovie ’08 and posted my first Mac-editted video.


This video pretty much sums up the first day of MINI Takes The States 2008 for the Sunshine MINI group. We spent the majority of the day traveling South. Since our members are spread out over such a large geographic area, we decided to meet in a central location for lunch – the Queen Mary British Pub in Jupiter, FL. Huge thanks to Neal from the pub for putting on such a wonderful buffet. Also, special thanks to Tom Bush MINI and Downtown MINI for picking up the tab!
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Photos: MINI Takes The States 2008 – Miami

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It sure was hard getting up today and having to get back to the grind after this weekend. I was pretty wiped, but managed to sort through my photos (all 359 of them!). Don’t worry, I cut them down to the best 140 pics ;). This gave me my first chance to do something like this with iPhoto on the Mac – pretty cool piece of software by the way.

MINI Takes The States 2008 Miami

Next on the list to tackle is sorting through all the video footage and finish my review of the weekend (what I liked, what could be improved for next time, etc.). For now, enjoy the photos.

[ MTTS 2008 Miami Photo Gallery ]

MINI Events

MINI Takes The States 2008 – Miami

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Phew – I am beat. What a weekend. MINI Takes the States 2008 – Miami is officially in the history books. I had a great time seeing old and new faces this past weekend. I can honestly say that was the most MINIs I have ever seen in one place in my life – WOW (ok – I have never done a Dragon event so bear with me)! I have tons of photos and video to sort through, but for now, enjoy this video that was produced by Sunshine MINIs member, Rowan. Great job at getting this up so quick Rowan!

Images, MINI Events, Modern MINI

MTTS 2008 RV Spotted

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Huge props go out to Sarah from SunshineMINIs.org for being the first person to catch photos of MTTS 2008-related items here in Florida. Sarah snapped this photo in the Oaks Mall parking lot in Gainesville. Nice find Sarah!

MTTS 2008 RV

For those heading down to MTTS tomorrow, if you see a Chili Red Cooper S with a Team Minspeed banner on the front, make sure to stop by and say hi! See you at MTTS!!