2018 MTTS The Great Canadian Bacon Invasion. July 6 - July 13 2018

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  1. beken

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    Rumors have it that MINI Takes The States 2018 is happening July 14-19. Precursor to that, The Canadians are doing a cross country tour beginning July 6 to end where MTTS starts in the west. Since the start of MTTS is in Portland, Seattle/Tacoma becomes an honourary Canadian city for this tour. Americans and other foreigners welcome.
     
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    That sounds fun!
     
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    Wow @Sully A link to NAM! They wont let people link to here, they should.
     
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    @MCS02 - that’s a link to our article and the MINI press.. regarding NAM, we are different, I don’t discriminate. If there is I formation there someone needs, I’ll link to it. I think anyone will find the user experience there to be sub par anyway.. (ads etc). At least that is my thoughts. Open to you and others thoughts..
     
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    @Sully Oops I didn't look hard enough.:oops: I agree with you. I just think its funny its not a shared view over there. At least I don't think they have changed.
     
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    @MCS02 - agreed.. not sure if they will or not. Their more interested in the ad revenue. Frankly I’m more interested in the community and also tuning... speaking of that, I’m looking at a 2013 GP with 38K miles.. (that one is already tuned... which kind of sucks as that means I would need to get a second one to build). Thoughts on the 2013?
     
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    @Sully That would be a great Mini. Maybe Jan will be at MOTD and you could have him do a tune on it. My thoughts on Mini in general. I have been looking at GP1s for a long time, I would love to have one. But if I had one I would leave it bone stock. I think it is a very special mini. I ended up with the Helmet, it was a wild card. Its a very different mini and Mark really did a great job modding it. If I had a GP2 I would mod the crap out of it. Just remember its a N14 engine. Its not the glass engine some say, you just need to keep up with it. But if you are wanting to really mod a mini R53 is your friend. R53 with RMW stroker would be sweet! But a nice GP2 would be sweet also!

    Now that I have said all that I realized we have hijacked @beken thread. Sorry for the High jack been. Sully may you should start a thread Sully's new Mini
     
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    Agreed - I’ll start new thread.

    @beken sorry about the thread highjack..
    Now back to the topic, are you going to do MTTS?
     
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    No worries. My kid just bought her first car and it's a 2013 MINI Cooper. Seems it was the best year of the Gen 2s if I read all the longterm reviews. Having said that, I did get to drive a GP2 and I have to say, it acts like a muscle car with, perhaps the worlds best (factory) brakes. When I slammed on the brakes, I thought I was going to fly through the windshield. The GP1 is more, well, MINI.

    Anyways, The Canadian Bacon Invasion is still in planning stages. It probably still has a dependency on what is happening with MTTS. Noted the MTTS does not hit New York state this time around so it looks like there will be a contingency crossing the border for a cross country drive. It is being talked about in Facebook.

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/355604481516685/
     
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    Oh - that would be cool.. looks like a pretty active discussion.. hope you or someone else will be going on the trip and posting pics (and I hope soon.. video.. =)

    Regarding the GP - I will start new thread. Its a 38K mile "built" one.. usually I wouldn't buy a "built" one, I would build it. But this one looks pretty super clean and all records. That will leave me more time for "building" the site.. then I would get a second one to build... at least mentally that is how I'm trying to justify it. :D
     
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    I am on the coast in Vancouver BC already. I was thinking of going to Banff in the Rockies and driving back with the group and then going with them to Portland for the first couple of legs of MTTS.

    Being the picture taking nut that I am, I will certainly fill my Flickr page with car pictures.
     

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