I'm with you Pete, and I too am worried about the price gouging. Every indication so far is that this car is going to be a huge hit here in the US (and really, how could such a great car not be...), which means they're going to become expensive, and hard to get ahold of =/ I live in the Los Angeles area of southern California, so around here there are a lot of people with a LOT of disposable income who I'm sure wouldn't mind in the least paying far over the MSRP to get their hands on a new MINI. Then again, given some of the quality issues I've been seeing on here, I'm not so sure I want to be one of the very first guinea pi...errr people to get a MINI on our shores, so perhaps its a blessing in disguise
(Try telling yourself that, it helps the sting of the idea that you may not be able to get a MINI asap, hehe).
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