Magical Mystery Mini Tour 2008
Well I thought it might be time to update many of you on what’s going on and what is planned for the Magical Mystery Mini Tour 2008 in San Francisco September 5-7, 2008. The event headquarters will be on the Great Lawn on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. If you have never been here, the view from the Great Lawn is spectacular of the SF Skyline, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, etc.
[from MINIUSA insider email, as you know StarLord was one of the lucky Motorby participants. You can see him interacting with the billboard on an earlier Miniology episode]
All Technologically Advanced Good Things Come To An End.
Well, it’s time. At the end of December the Motorby boards will come down. And we want to thank you for your participation and for your comments and feedback on the program. Through the technical hiccups, construction obstacles and random acts of lightning, your participation and enthusiasm never flagged. It is because of you that these innovative ideas are possible.
The staff of miniology wishes you a joyful season and a wonderful 2008!
You can see our electronic greeting card courtesy of YouTube (if the video doesn’t work for you, try this link
From our “interesting Mini stuff you find across the pond” department…
The latest nude fundraising calendar has been launched by the Central Mini Owners’ Club in Coventry and Warwickshire, who are raising funds for Cancer Research UK and the breast care unit at Nuneaton’s George Eliot Hospital.
Yeh, the long wheelbase big MINI SAV, some places are calling it the MINI Moke now. Is that what it is to be called? I dunno what to think..
I do think it’s ugly though. Looks more like a BMW X5 than a MINI, but I guess it’s loosely based on that .
Wish we were there, but hey AutoNetwork was, and here’s their video as posted on YouTube!
Cool video, I like most of these folk’s vids because they are clean, edited but not “in your face” – You can see more of their vids at AutoNetwork.com — so stated the largest selection of new car Ride and Drives on the Internet – with over 850 videos posted to YouTube, I can totally believe that! 
Califzeph and StarLord bring you another audio edition of our upcoming Mini events calendar for 2008, highlighting some of the best ideas for you and your motoring entourage to experience over the next year! Well, what are you waiting for? Go and take a listen to it now!
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The Magical Mystery Mini Tour will take place in San Francisco, September 5-7 2008. The event is sponsored by the Redwood Empire Mini Enthusiasts.
This event will be a gathering of MINI/Mini Cooper enthusiasts from the west coast and some from overseas, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and others. We expect to have nearly 500 Minis. This will be a three-day event, starting on Friday and ending on Sunday evening.
Our event will be headquartered on the Great Lawn on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. There will be Port-O-Lets/washing stations, tenting, dumpsters, fencing, tables, food vendors, and Mini vendors. We will have parking along the Great Lawn. Each participant will have a wrist band and their Mini will have a windshield sticker. This will provide identification and access to the Great Lawn and other events during the weekend. There will be security & parking attendants.
MINI USA AND RIDEMAKERZ TEAM UP TO DEBUT SMALLEST MINI EVER
 Companies Announce Joint Holiday Donation Guaranteeing 2,000 MINI RIDEZ to Toys for Tots; Invite Public to Donate As Well
“Tween” Sensation Jansen Panettiere, and Children from Madison Square Boys & Girls Club and Latino Pastoral Action Center, Family Life Academy Charter School are the First to Build Their Own RIDEMAKERZ MINI Cooper S.
Woodcliff Lake, NJ – December 2, 2007…
MINI USA and RIDEMAKERZ have teamed up to create the smallest MINI ever
(didn’t they just say that? dang news editors..)
- the RIDEMAKERZ MINI – a 12-inch, completely customizable toy replica of the iconic MINI Cooper S – and have guaranteed a holiday donation of 2,000 of the new toy MINIs to Toys for Tots – the companies jointly announced today at an event celebrating the launch of the new MINI RIDE.
What?! A MINI SAV?! Yeah, you heard it here first.. well.. maybe not.. but the concept is done and production to follow…
Does this mean another, larger version of the clubman is forthcoming? Yes, it does.
Someone smack me and tell me the BMW press club isn’t smoking crack and hell hasn’t froze over?!
( minutes later.. )
Ok, I just chatted with White Roof Radio‘s Don Burnside (aka DB) and he confirmed this has been in the works for some time, and yes it is much like the clubman, except, imagine it with 4 full-size doors going back instead of just the suicide door on one side of the 9″ longer MINI we see today.
Here’s the write-up from BMW AG. We had this posted in broken Google-translated German earlier, however ask and ye shall receive, they just gave me an updated article in ENGLISH, yay!
