Most liked posts in thread: Is it time for a National MINI Club??

No national club for me. I enjoy the MINI crowd because it's laid back, no politics, no egos, just a bunch of different personalities enjoying their cars and each other. I believe that injecting a national club into MOTD would take the grass roots fabric from the event.

 

From what I have seen here locally, MINI would do much better if they weren't constantly tied to BMW. I appreciate BMW, but frankly, they don't want us kicking their butts any more than we want to lower ourselves to constantly doing it...

I just went through being treated like a red-headed step child in buying a new Coupe for my wife through a BMW-centric dealership, and frankly, I wanted to tell their finance people to kiss my arse before it was all said and done with.

Same goes with tying ourselves to BMWCCA. Nothing wrong with using their model, but I will never join BMWCCA just because I don't feel MINI is a spin off. It is its own brand and doesn't need BMW to stand alone.

Getting out from under that umbrella trickles down to clubs, also. I think if a national club were to be done, it would need to be independent of BMW and their idea of how things are.

MINI's are NOT BMW's and their owners tend to not be modern BMW-types either.

Clubs are a lot of work... I know! But we have been steadily growing and doing things at even a state level is a huge challenge. Going national would bring a whole other set of challenges and I think it is unnecessary. I think getting the local and regional clubs that already exist to communicate more would help create an overlapping mesh that would create a very fun, very social MINI network.

MA has gone a long way to creating a place for that to happen.

 

I'm at the point in my life were "disorganized" is way better.

Jim

 

Lets hope Obama hasn't found it. :lol:

Jim

 

Ohhh you know what Secret Service means! Partay! Complete with prostitutes! W00t!

 

^ That is the only thing I think a club would be useful for. Not sure if folks realize the risk they take putting on events without insurance.

 

A National MINI club as I see it would be nothing but trouble, too many different personalities just as many different types of MINI's. Now with the MINI's that's a great thing with personalities not very good at all.

Barry and staff did a fantastic job this year and adding a National club to the mix would only bring it down. IMHO.

Gotta leave politics out of the mix.

 

...it'll be instantly over budget for sure. LOL:cornut:

 

To what benefit? Why and what for? If local clubs fill the need why then have a mothership hovering about looking for funding and sticking her nose where it need not be stuck? In general more organization results in less creativity, spontaneity and an increase in rules and regulation. MINI prides itself on youification not usification and a big brother organization seems counter to that philosophy. Sure it may fit the BMW crowd but not the MINI bunch.
That's just my opinion.

 

+2

 

Being very new to MA as well as the club idea, my thoughts may be of little value. But from what my MINI compatriots have been saying on this thread, a national club of individual members does not seem to garner much interest and, in fact, some considerable concern over what are considered liabilities.

For the few advocates, it seems that a voluntary national coalition of local clubs might be in order as a means for clubs to share and pool resources. That, too, would require resources including operating funds and volunteer workers. Local clubs are the only possible benefactors, it seems to me, and if local clubs were not interested, the handwriting would be on the wall.

From what I can tell, there does not appear to be a a good rationale nor a positive need nor a strong desire for a national club of individual members.

 

and Nathan would have to sign on twenty new moderators, all with Secret Service Badges. :lol:

Jim

 

Only standard a club needs is that they like and enjoy Mini Coopers.

 

Really, every club should require each member to eat at least one donut per year as tribute. That, and some ice cream.

 

You forgot like to DRIVE their MINI Coopers. That is important to some of us.

 

We love to drive to where the goodies are. :drool

 

I agree with you completely Jim.

OK enough of that when are you going to change the oil in your car? :smilewinkgrin: