Hot Orange MCS Cabrio Spotted in California

MotoringFile reader Brad Herman sent us this little surprise this past Sunday. It seems he had a similar experience to to what I had from a few weeks back. Here's an excerpt of the story behind the photo:
Sunday I was lucky enough to spot a Hot Orange MCS Convertible going the other direction on the PCH in Malibu, CA. I made the quickest U-turn I could and followed it into a shopping center. After loosing track of it several times I finally spotted it at the grocery store. I parked several rows away and waited for the man to go in. He left the top down giving me some access to it. The first thing I noted was how nice the Hot Orange is in person. You can see how it contrasts with my Chili Red. The whole car just looks good. It has the interior chrome package, even chromed Nav. The quality of the chrome was very high and looked like a great fit for the car.
I have to say the whole car felt very MINI. They did a good job of keeping the spirit in the new car. The fabric roof tucks nicely behind the rear seats. It's also softer than I would have guessed, not as plastic feeling as some other convertible roofs. The bars retract to an angle that keeps the lines of the car. The Chrome Roll bars are sweet. The back seats are smaller, looks like you loose about 4″ on each side for the roof mechanism. This car had the option wind screen mesh fitted, it looks like it pops in or out in just a moment like the boot privacy cover. The retracting rear windows don't seem to go all the way down, about 1/2″ sticks up but this could be a pre-production thing. It also lacked the S's Chrome gas cover.
As the car is an 05 it did have all the new 05 features including the new headlights, tail lights and extra storage under the hand break. The new headlights match the car very well, I would pick them over my current ones. I'm not a huge fan of the new tail light design. As these have been well documented I didn't take many new photos.
You can check out Brad's entire story and many more photos here.
Seems like Brad's experience is somewhat similar to mine: MINI Cabrio in Person
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