Since I got my MINI in late April, I have waved to every other MINI is have seen. Sadly, only 1 or 2 have waved back. Most are oblivious or look at me like my hair is on fire.

Did see my first clubman on the road today ... Did not wave at the driver because I was on foot. That WOULD have warranted a strange look!

 

There's a thread by Cooptime on waving that is still current. He's got a wave sticker that looks a lot better than the one in my sig line, which I modified in Paint.

 

Oh that would not be unusual at all. I often get waves from people walking especially kids. If I am on a small local road kids often seem delighted to see my car.

 

Got my first wave today and waved back through 15% tinted windows, so I doubt he saw me. Unfortunately, I have had my car less than a week and I couldn't figure out how to open up the windows in time. I felt bad!!

 

I wave to mini's even though I'm driving an accord until July.

Friendliness never hurts.

 

I searched and only found one thread posted by Cooptime from 2003 and didn't see the wave sticker.
Can you post a link or send me the link to the thread you are refering to?

 

That's what I tell my boyfriend whenever he's in the car with me and I wave at someone and they don't wave back. I always say that it's always nice to be friendly! But, I was driving home from work yesterday and I saw a purple haze? Justacooper at the stoplight across from me going the opposite direction. when her light turned she drove right by me, slowly, and looking! So I waved and she just stared at me! Ugh! Now, if you saw someone waving and smiling at you even if you didn't know why the heck they were waving, wouldn't you wave back? Some people...sheez...

I've been trying to drive with my sunroof open (when it's actually cooperating...) in order to get a more effective wave that people could see.

 

I know what you mean I don't get the non-wavers at all. I always think... "must be having an awful day or perhaps just not a very happy person". I mean c'mon it feels good to wave. Its a natural endorphin booster.

 

Here in Atlanta we have tons of MINIs zooming around but I've noticed that the only time I get waves or waves returned are from MCS drivers.

Wonder why that is?

I probably pass 3 or 4 a day on my 5 miles commute. I'd say 1 in 4 waves. My wife thinks I'm goofy for waving at folks I think given the low return rate.

 

Wow....definitely not that way here. Same w/ first and second gen owners, too...I get waves from both!!

 

Only thing I can figure is most of the MC's around my area are folks snatching them up for the MPG whereas the MCS folks are the actual "MINI" fans.

Just a theory...

 

I'm grabbing an MC instead of MCS, main reason being MPG (when I'm not going to be just having fun with it). Both can be had by a MINI fan.

If I were a MINI driver in Atlanta, I'd probably be having lots of bad days since the traffic is so horrible and I wouldn't be driving so much as parking. I spent two years there and I swore never again (GA400 blows!).

 

Oh yeah the traffic here can cause some killer drives home...and some killer headaches! I live right off 400 and my wife drives it daily :(

Not saying anything about just a coopers vs. MCS or that you have to have one or the other to be a fan. Just saying that 40 MPG with a tailwind has probably gotten many gas misers on board that could care less what they are driving. Hence the lack of waving?

There are days where as much as I love my MCS, idling in Atlanta traffic and that 40MPG grail makes me wish I'd reigned myself in just a bit 4 months ago.

 

 

yay! Thanks Oxy! I should print this out and stick it in my glovebox so that whenever I get a non-waver I can look at it and feel whole again!

 

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...=18341&page=14

Artist is Cabriopilot

 

I just got my 08 MCS Clubman PW/B last Wednesday, and have already had lots of waves and light flashes. Maybe we are just friendlier in Idaho.
Motor on

 

Really, though, now, if you didn't care WHAT you were driving, as long as it got good gas mileage, why not get a Yaris, Civic, Fit, or any other generic econobox car?

Perhaps these owners bought used and never learned about the wave? Or their MA (if they bought new, or used off a lot) didn't fill them in?

For some reason, I just have to imagine that every MINI owner loves their MINI and it's not just an appliance to get you from point A to point B.

 

Minis in Honolulu don't wave or even look your way... So rude...

 

I got my first wave two days ago ( I've had my 2008 Oxy Blue MC two weeks now ).

I'm lucky enough to have been around sports cars here in the states in the 60's, when a wave was something done without question or thought.

I got to twist a few spanners back then as well.

Today's availability of reliable new "sports" cars in great quantities dilutes that feeling of being "In the know". The club mentality doesn't translate to all owners as it did in the above mentioned 60's. I think the fact that we are no longer twisting those spanners to keep them running has played a role as well. We are no longer that rare bird..

But some of us are still "In the know".

Bill in P.G.

 

I'll only wave at the good looking girls/women

If you wanted to get waves you should have gotten a Jeep Wrangler. Now that's a friendly bunch.

 

 

Jeep wrangeler owners are very enthousastic with the wave(that is a good thing ) including the fact that we used to own a jeep but they get very poor gas mileage

 

I wave with 1 finger

 

MiniChaser, when you go to the car wash and people come up to ooh and ah, then you've made it.
Well, that and when a cop pulls you over just to look at your Cooper.
I had the latter. "What the heck is it?"