New Mini Price Spec info

[rich1231]

A friend (girly) is looking to buy a new cooper S convertable.

She is mad about one of the FLIP FLOP paint colours....

Anyone got an opinion or a way for her to get a discount on the colour?

[nickster]

clean my car and I'll tell you.

[rich1231]

Clean your car?

I dont even clean mine!

[AndrewD]

Rich, I just bought a Works S with pretty much all the Mini and John Cooper Works options and even then found it hard to get more than 5% discount. Gather their margins are wafer thin. But good luck anyway

[Plotloss]

Discount on the fastest selling convertible just when the good weather arrives?

You'll be lucky I reckon. If she is financing it they can go down to 3.5% flat but I doubt they will move on the sticker price.

[rich1231]

Shes after a Flip Flop paint colour too

!! 5k for paint!!!!!

[dazren]

What is a Flip Flop paint scheme?

DAZ

[Plotloss]

dazren said:

What is a Flip Flop paint scheme? DAZ

Special effects paint Daz, like you see a lot of the TVR's painted up in. Two or more colours depending on the way the light hits the car.

[dazren]

Oh, I see.

Rich, tell her to spend the £5k on buying her boyfriend a nice watch.

DAZ

[jinxy]

5k extra is mad money for a paint job, suggest the pepper white(girlie colour), and say its only an extra 2k if you get the cash!(its std) then buy yourselve some tuning mods eh or a lads do in Barcelona!

[rich1231]

She has to have something unique is her line.

Yep, being the only person to pay 5k on a pot of paint makes her pretty unique to me.

Please note that if any Stradale owners are reading and had the strip then you have my sympathy. I have offered to do it with a pot of B&Q emulsion for a tenner.

[Plotloss]

It would probably be cheaper to get it sprayed after market...

£5K is a ludicrous amount. The paint isnt cheap but its not that bloody much!

[Paul_Riordan]

Plotloss said:

It would probably be cheaper to get it sprayed after market... £5K is a ludicrous amount. The paint isnt cheap but its not that bloody much!

The flip flop colours are a re-spray! You order the car in black and then the dealer gets the car re-sprayed! It was mentioned to me as on option by my local dealer and they said the cost was £3.5k.

[Plotloss]

Thats interesting because most of the special effects paints are sprayed over a black base.

But presumably if it left the factory in black then its going to be lacquered as well...

[glenn350sl]

MY LOCAL DEALER HAS A COOPER S IN THIS COLOUR IT £35K

[fishtek69]

Even the most reputable garages and spray shops won't charge anything like £5k for the job doing in absolutely any flipshade she would want.

Think the most expensive respray I've ever known in a flip shade came in at about £3k, and that was on a Celica with a larger surface area of bodywork (no roof to do on the MINI). Think the paint had 7 colours making it up, and came in at around £320 a litre. Looked the Mutts Nuts though!

I'd suggest getting the car, then looking in one of the 'Max Power' type mags for a professional sprayshop with a history of doing cars for Show purposes - you know they're gonna do a fine job.

N.B. Word of warning! These flip-jobs are a bugger to maintain if regular mileage is being done. Get just a couple of stone-chips (or any kind of accident) and the repair costs can be huge, as that specific flip of paint can be really hard to mix up right.

[rich1231]

Well the car has arrived and looks absolutely fing awesome. I cant believe I was a doubter before.

I'll get the young lady to take some pics and I'll post them later on.

[NikB]

I saw one of these in Ascot the other day and I must agree it looked really cool.