Nathaniel Salzman Jun 13th, 2006 Link
When I was ordering my MCS a week and a half ago, the sales rep was telling Todd and I that to compensate for the ramping down of production on the current cars over the next few months, MINI is actually holding back pre-spec’d cars to keep dealer allocations consistent all the way through the transition to the R56. Otherwise dealers could run out of cars in the interim between November, when R50/R53 production stops, and January when the first of the’07s arrive in the USA. So it looks like during the last few months of the model run cars will still be available all the way up to when the new car comes out – but with pre-spec’d configurations. That’s been eluded to here on MotoringFile, but that’s a little more direct confirmation. Though she didn’t go into any specifics as to when the cut-off date would be for custom orders, based on that information it looks as though we can fully expect not only will the first of the ‘07 MINIs be pre-spec’d, but most likely some of the last of the ‘06 MINIs.
Makes me very glad to have my order in!
NS in NE
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