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How did last January compare to this January weather-wise?

 

January 2015 -


January 2016 -

 

Yeah, I wouldn't put too much stock in one month's year-over-year results...

 

*Note*
Besides the one weekend blizzard we have had the warmest winter since they started record keeping.

Northeast Cities Make History With Warmest Christmas Eve Ever.
Northeast Cities Make History With Warmest Christmas Eve Ever - ABC News

 

I don't think MINI is going out of business & really don't follow the sales figures. Our local dealer has so many unsold MINI's on the lot that they may have to find another place to park the overflow. This makes me wonder why this dealer keeps ordering these to put in stock or maybe MINI keeps sending them on their own? I'm not in the car sales bidness, but this sure seems like the wrong way to do this. When I ordered my MINI is Sept 05 there was not 1 MCS on the lot to drive or buy. My how times have changed for MINI.

 

^^^ YUP
Now they have a huge supply and no demand.

Maybe the car is no longer unique and looks like every other car but is over priced and not really reliable. (Motor replacements)

 

Dave...Dave...Dave (With obligatory finger wagging)

You are not getting enough of the MotoringFile Kool-Aid.

From the 2015 F56 S Long Term Review

 

Another possibility might be the drop in fuel prices. I wouldn't be surprised to find some of the muscle car crowd with an increase in sales.

 

It's all part of the plan MINI has in store for us...
You didn't hear it from me... But... Be looking for the new MINI ad campaign...

The MINI "Fish -N- Chips"special...

MINI expects them to do just swimmingly....

 

Any MF review of anything MINI can be summed up with my newly invented acronym, "IBIEW".

Rumor has it they have to wipe their chin after every interview.

 

We have no choice, MINI keeps forcing the cars down our throats.

 

I have a choice, I will not buy a new MINI ever.

 

I thought that might be the case. Seems to me somewhere along the line there will have to be a fire sale to move those off the lot. Or build a bigger lot?

 

Well MINI does like to make things BIGGER. :lol:

 

You can make the most premium product known to man but if'n it's not a product that's wanted there's gonna be a problem.

 

The problem is BMW isn't making MINI's anymore, they're making small BMW's. And at that price point, people start buying real BMWs. They had a nice niche with MINI that didn't remotely compete with BMW. Now, they're to some degree competing with themselves.

 

"IBIEW" has a video.

In Thai with subtitles (in Thai)

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZzgUAWS60k"] (Leave)â„¢ [Official MV] - YouTube[/ame]

 

Not quite. They don't count until registered.

BMW boosted 2015 sales by having dealers purchase loaners by offering incentives to do so.


BMW buoyed U.S. sales numbers by paying dealers to buy loaners, report says

 

Dude's a poseur. Stealing my thunder in Thailand.

IBIEW is mine, all mine, it's all MF needs to post for any review of any MINI they do.

"MF exclusive: The 2017 Clubman. IBIEW."

Just needs a byline, then it's done. you don't have to waste 30 seconds of your life reading the rest.

IBIEW: It's better in every way.