The Last Day to Order the MINI Coupe & Roadster Just Weeks Away
If you’re interested in a MINI Coupe and Roadster your last chance to order is coming up fast. More specifically we’ve been told that day will be approximately April 1st depending on your MINI dealer. Why should you order a Coupe or Roadster? Three reasons.
1. The easy answer is that they are the modern MINI ethos distilled down to its core with the lowest center of gravity of any MINI.
2. There may never be another MINI Roadster (despite us all voicing our love for the Superleggera) and there will surely never be another coupe.
3. We’ve driven and owned a number of MINIs over the years. And nothing has captured our hearts like our 2012 MINI Roadster. And the Coupe wasn’t far behind after spending a week with a Black and Red JCW a couple years back.
<p>This is probably not the best time to be investing in a new Coupé or Roadster, unless you want to lose a packet on depreciation. This is, however, a great time to buy a low mileage one owner example. Choose the right one, and you could enjoy a couple of years of fun motoring, and then sell it on without losing much money. Who knows, you might even get your money back.</p>
<p>Depreciation?! These are, for all intents and purposes, limited-run collectors items.</p>
<p>You might want to clarify your comment. The GPs were limited runs, but not the Coupe and the Roadster.</p>
<p>“for all intents and purposes” is an idiom conveying similarity … as in: they weren’t limited runs, but practically-speaking they were because MINI sold so few of them.</p>
<p>It is true that one won’t know what will happen to those “limited” (read: didn’t sell well) models in the future. 😉 models in just a few years time (or much later).</p>
<p>One example:</p>
<p>Ducati made this 70s sport bike inspired models called Sport Classic. It had super hardcore riding position, typical Ducati quirks, was a a bit before hipster/cafe racer trend. It didn’t sell well and got canceled after just a few years of production. Just a few years later, Tron Legancy featured Sport Classic in it and people rediscovered this one forgotten model. Now because of short production run and low sales figure, they are very hard to find and often fetching more than the MSRP in used market.</p>
<p>You’ll never know. If Superleggera turns out to be pure electric only, Roader will likely be the only BMW MINI with enthusiast oriented (petrol, manual gearbox, relatively low-tech options) two-seater setup for a long time if not forever.</p>