They drive the cars off and line them up on the pier. Then I think they have to go through Customs and then they're released for truck or rail transportation or stored on the lot as general inventory for dealers to draw from. They also ship farm and construction equipment on the ships.

It's not the greatest picture since I was a ways away, but the cars lined up near the telephone pole, fronts facing the camera, came off the ship yesterday. BMWs on the left and Minis toward the right. There's an Ice Blue Cooper hardtop in the front row of Minis - first one of that colour I've ever seen in person.

 

I might be wrong but from what I learned...If yours tend to come with WW Tamesis your VIN should show on WW site by now (it should show even right after it releases from birth canal). WW don't have my VIN on record as well so I suppose that mine will come with any of the K line's which ( I might be wrong again, please anyone correct me) 2 of K line's come to Baltimore, and the other 2 come to Charleston. Charleston is as far as Baltimore from where I live.

I think I am gonna leave it be, I heard that a lot of mini owners in some other countries can't even customize their mini. They get whatever the dealers have or await without any expectation on what will be available for them and no estimate delivery date. Here, we customize ours and the dealers give us the estimate delivery. I'll let dealers and cargo's work on it for me If I go crazy with this again, I'll go shopping, eating and dancing!!

 

Here's the numbers from MotoringFile. The article mentions the Clubman and Hardtop numbers are transposed.

 

This is frustrating! There is a vin 3 before mine and 14 after mine booked on the Mignon. I'm pretty confident mine is at the port. But the question is, will it make the Tulane?!

 

I'm lost! My baby completed production on May 3rd and as of today, MINI has just said that it is finishing Quality checks. I checked the VIN on WW, but nothing. I was hoping to be on the Mignon, but it doesn't look promising. I'm starting to think that because I'm probably going to Brunswick or Charleston that I'll get loaded on the K-Line. Everything moved real fast up to this point, now it looks as though the voyage is really going to stall out....Ah this waiting is killing me.....

 

I think the mignon is packed so there's an overflow to the next ship. We'll all be driving before you know it.

 

Mine completed April 27... Waiting to go to B-more also...but no shipping info yet!

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<Cough, Cough, Sneeze> Gee, you don't look so good. You should go home early!

 

At least you all seem to be on the east coast! When it get to you your neck of the woods, there's still a continent to be crossed before it get out here to the west coast....such a drag! Though I was amazed at my dealer's ability to pop my order into one of their slots that was just about to start production. It's been at the port waiting to hitch a ride and I only ordered it on 4/22...pretty spectacular.

 

Kingfishcoon ~ they don't break out JCW as a separate line item? That's weird.

 

Got my VIN. :) Had to put my face in a vice to get the smile out so I could return to interacting with human beings.

 

Thanks for the link! It will be interesting to see if I make the 5/4th departure on the Torino to Port Humane or it sits until the 5/15th sailing on the Fedora...hope it's the earlier one! I think it was in the port as of 5/1 after a lightening fast build.

I still haven't been able to get a VIN number, so there's no way to know what's up! My MA not a tremendous help, despite the very significant $$ spent. Oh well, it will get here...sooner or later!.

 

Hit up the OL with your production number to get your VIN

 

I agree with you, this is too stressful. My MA has been pretty good with updating me so I will wait until he calls me. My estimated delivery is the beginning of June so I think I'm right on target at this rate. If I get any updates I will post to the forum. Good luck everyone!

 

My status on ask mini and OL went to En-route today. How long after it is on a ship does this normaly happen?

The Tambora a WWL ship is loading today and I don't think it is that real time. I may have caught the K-Line ship the other day and it just updated. My MA went to Porsche after I ordered and have not gotten the replacement live on the phone yet.

But at least I am floating

 

As of 5/3/13, my status changed to "Awaiting Transport." There has been no change in this status as of this morning. My MINI will be coming into Baltimore, MD, and based on the WW departure schedule (thanks, kavatski), it looks like departure might be in the next few days, with arrival between May 16th-28th.

 

Hope yours ships out quickly, Mr. T.

For those watching the Mignon (Halifax/New York, departing today), it looks like more VINs have been added to that booking. There are now 439 cars booked in total, up from 396 yesterday. So if you were hoping for the Mignon but hadn't seen your VIN yet, check again.

Bookings for the Tulane (Port Hueneme, departing tomorrow) are showing up as well.

 

Mine didn't make it (at least yet). It looks like they're sitting at port for a week before being loaded. There must be a back log of cars waiting to go out - if there wasn't we'd all be getting on much quicker.

 

That Spring Cleaning event must have been pretty popular. I bought mine a week before that was announced and had no problems getting on a ship within a day or two. Hope you get on one soon though.

 

My VIN is booked on the Tulane as of May 7! :D

 

That makes sense. I ordered mine before then but it didn't finish production until 5/4 (although I still was able to get the $750 off by going in to the dealership). Oh well, all of these cars will be in our garages before we know it. Its fun to have something to look forward to.

 

The sale event really doesn't effect things. They make the cars at the same speed, no matter how many orders. This is pretty typical timing for all this.

This is the second mini I ordered, and I was hoping the wait wouldn't be as bad, but who am I kidding!!! I was lucky enough to ship on WW the first round, and yes, you typically get booked right after the car is built. So at this point, I am most likely on the k-line. For those who are, you just have to wait until your MA has the ship name to track it.

 

I assume you can also call ASK-MINI and find out by speaking to a representative

 

Your MA will have the info quicker then ask-mini. I don't understand why or how, they usually do

 

Your comment made me realize I could have done the same! The rules set a cut-off date for delivery, but didn't say anything about when you could order. No matter, my MA just called to let me know I'm in production. Woohoo!