MotoringFile Most liked posts in thread: MINI USA Kills the Clubvan

  1. Nathan

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    Don't think it will be missed.
     
  2. Metalman

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    Fiddy years from now it will be a sought after collectors item.... Even with the Prince engine...:D
     
  3. Crashton

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    I think there would have been a market had it been priced right. The chicken tax & MINI killed it.

    RIP Clubvan we hardly knew you. :(
     
  4. Minidave

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    Might have made a good racer if you could have gotten it in an S, and priced more competitively.

    I know I've said it before, but all car prices - including MINI - are getting out of hand. I don't know how people can afford to buy them anymore, I know I can't.
     
  5. Dave.0

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    Good bye ugly MINI, you won't be missed.
     
  6. eMINIparts

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    It could have been a good idea :idea:...if they had not jacked the price up so high..:frown5:
     
  7. Dave.0

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    You mean like that little company that delivers the snail mail.

    Because only the US govt. would pay that price for a delivery truck that small and such high maintenance.
     
  8. Motoring Magic

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    called it!

    I believe I called that one correctly Immediately after they announced the overblown price-i am still annoyed at how they handled it.

    http://www.motoringalliance.com/forums/motoringfile-feeds/17280-official-mini-usa-clubvan-pricing-25-985-a.html#axzz2Y6hKNeVX
     
  9. Crashton

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    I'll miss that little bread van. It was destined to fail. Wonder if a fella could buy the parts needed & convert his wife's clubster into one? :idea:
     
  10. maacodale

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    I was amazed they ever even built this. I just didn't see the market they were going after as being big enough to make it a success. Wishful thinking I suppose.
     
  11. wmwny

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    Chuck, be the FIRST to come out with the Rear Seat Clubman Delete Kit, cover up the side rear passenger and back door windows, and there ya go!
     
  12. Jason Montague

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    :cornut: Yeah especially as eye catching advertising for businesses that do delivery of light/small articles/packages.:Thumbsup:

    Jason
     
  13. Angib

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    Killed off, just as the US-EU trade talks start where it is hoped that a lot of anti-free-trade laws will get eliminated. Oops, getting political there...