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That's the RM wave.:devil: uncross and remove index--> :fingerscrossed:

 

^^^^^ :lol::lol::lol:

Nope

 

The other evening, after owning my car for almost a year, I actually got a wave! It caught me so off guard that I didn't realize it was happening until it was almost too late. The driver was an "older" gentleman, possibly around my age, driving an S Vert, like mine, and perhaps that may have been the catalyst, but he did wave! I've been waving at so many ungrateful Mini owners that I probably am perceived as a perv or else someone in need of friends!

During my Miata days, it was a rare car that didn't wave. Maybe it's because the owners of Miatae are slightly different from the owners of Minis. :wink:

 

I waved at one MINI today and got a wave back! That's 100% wave backs today!

 

I don't know about the Jeep thing, I've never owned a Jeep, but it is definitely an old British car thing. When I am driving one of my MGs and see any kind of old British iron, there is a waving frenzy, from both cars!

 

I wave and like to think that I just missed them waving back if it isn't obvious [emoji4]

 

Today, on a trip to Seattle, I waved at four MINIs and got waves back every time!

 

It's not what you are driving Eric. Look in the Mirror, it you. :lol::lol:

That was just too easy.

 

:cornut: The more that we wave and the more ostentatious the wave( ie. both hands through the roof hole if one can safely do it), the more likely one is to see the other driver smile and wave back.

Jason

 

I'm not quite that aggressive.

I did meet a group of ladies outside the Mothman Museum that were eyeing up Dark Helmet. One of them is from Marysville and owns a Countyman. She got a card.

The wave is not as prevalent as it once was now that MINIs are more mainstream, but don't give up. Keep waving, people do wave back now and then.

 

I admit I do not wave first.
BUT if you wave to me I wave back

 

:cornut: I wave first as I don't get waves other wise.

Jason

 

LOL- you're not kidding :ihih::cornut:

 

JAC MINI owner's

Yep many new MINI owners see MINIs as Just A Car. Sad but true.:frown2: I wave at all of them & rarely get a wave, more often odd look. It's fun to see the dumbfounded look on the JAC owner's faces. :confused5:

 

Sometimes I don't think they see me, as I often don't see them until the last moment. Not sure about the JAC part. My wife has always felt that a car was just a car, until she got the CMS. It has changed her all on its own. I have met MINI owners who are not as caught up in the MINI movement as we are here, but never one that did not love the car.

Jim

 

Jim you have indoctrinated your wife. She saw your unbridled enthusiasm & couldn't help but drink that Kool-aide once she got her own.

 

I wave.

I wave first, hoping for a wave, and with some hope that non-wavers will see enough of us wave to think..."that's the 2nd or 3rd MINI driver who's waved. Is there a cult of MINI waving? Must be..." and then start waving back next time.

I'm currently at 2 for 25 or so, so sort of a slump by most standards. Hard to predict, too. Shiny Chili Red convertible, top down, sunny day, dapper young-ish male driver with photogenic passenger: no wave. Road-grimey R50 piloted by middle-aged woman: enthusiastic wave.

We do better with the Corvette crowd, 8 of 10 or so return waves (of any kind, you have to factor in too-cool-to-wave hand-salute movements or slight head nods).

About 9 of 10 on the motorcycles too, other than H-Ds (my experience being they rarely return waves to non- H-D riders, and I've sorta stopped trying).

 

Jim your enthusiasm is infectious. Don't understand how she ended up with a turbo though? :smilewinkgrin:

Babs when from a turbo to a justa, go figure? :wink:

 

Babs went from AWD to FWD. I bought her new Blizzaks to keep her outa the ditch. :fingerscrossed: