This is what dividing the mini/MINI family and to be blunt its 9 years its getting old so time to move on, it also seems that its only in this country that this goes on reading a thread from some one in Finland there is family banter between the to and both in clubs so why not here?
BMW and it's shoddy treatment to the classic Mini fraternity perhaps?
Yes at first but they have since said that they are sorry! and that they went the wrong way of doing things. Now i know it was late in coming but now BMW has said it would like to help any thing that it can. If you remember they helped fund the imm in both 08 and 09 which is a big help in the cash flow of the clubs holding the show. They didn't over power at last years show and put on display of classic minis and 1 new in a big tent. They didn't push the new and there were not any big posters and signs. Now they didn't have to do it as they held the big mini united at Silverstone which was a good weekend. The amount of classics that turned up was great but they were mainly from main land Europe, this was a great shame because if some one from Poland can drive all that way i count not see why classic owner who live only a few hours away couldn't be arsed because of this mini/MINI thing!
This is the perfect time to move on and start a fresh and go forward in to the future with mini/MINI and not still sit in the past.BMW/MINI would like to work with suppliers and shows and Many more people would like to attend shows, but it the nastiness of some people that put them off. At many shows last year there was a greater number of clubs which have the new mini, but looking around there was a load of empty stands were only classics are allowed just because they didn't bother to turn up.
Now they have said sorry and would like to move on and try and correct things, yes its been a long time coming and they are trying so lets go from here and enjoy both cars and have a united mini family than a divided one were certain people go out of there way to ruin peoples enjoyment of the mini/MINI.
Lets make it friendly banter and not the nastiness that some people go out and do!
mini/MINI heres to the next 50 years.
Thank you 'Dave585' for talking sense..........I think the majority of us agree with you that its time to move on after nearly 10 years and its great to see the growing numbers of Mini enthusiasts who now own both a Mini & MINI and the many clubs and forums like BMC and TotalMini.com who welcome ALL Mini's.
Also to see AROnline has recently voted the
MINI 'Car of the Decade' 
http://www.aronline.co.uk/Quotes from AROnline article:"....thanks to the engineering excellence of the components on offer from the BMW parts bin, such as the Z-axle rear suspension (shared with the Rover 75/MG ZT), and the sheer skill of Rover's chassis team in dialling-in a perfectly honed set-up, the MINI was always going to be a great car to drive. And so it proved. When the road testers finally got hold of the MINI, they were bowled over by its overall dynamics and smart styling, and almost universally gave it a very big thumbs-up.
But once it hit the showroom, there was no stopping the MINI. Along with serious sales in the UK and Europe, the MINI triumphantly returned to the USA, and proved a strong seller from the start. Across the world's smartest cities, MINI became the car to be seen in - and also proved that eager customers would pay premium prices for small cars, when the conventional thinking at the time was that mini-cars should command mini-prices. As for the much-touted rivalry between BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi in the small car sector, the Oxford built car easily saw off its (far more intelligently packaged) Stuttgart rival, as well as the incredibly prescient aluminium bodied A2, which petered out unreplaced following an unexpectedly short production run.
But there's no getting away from it - MINI made owning a small car cool again, and arguably became the first genuinely classless supermini since the original Renault 5 in 1972 or maybe, just maybe, the Metro during its honeymoon period in the spring of 1981. But because of that, it easily wins the
AROnline Car of the Decade award, as it's just as relevant now (if not more so) going into these tough times, as it was when it was launched in 2000.
The real tragedy, of course, was just how much of Rover's work went into it, and how little credit the British have subsequently received......"
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Edited by mab01uk, 11 February 2010 - 08:35 AM.
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