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Recently, an old acquaintance was black his thrift. He owns a Mini Cooper S, which he bought in 2006, and was assault himself up over not splurging for the GP Kit model, which was accessible that year in bound numbers.
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R56 roof rack - Page 15 - North American Motoring | Mini Cooper R56 Roof Rack Installation“It was $31,000 or article like that,” he said (actually, it was $31,150). “The S that I got was about $23,000. Now bodies are affairs the GP for about $41,000.”
Everything is bound copy these days, including the Uniqlo T-shirt I wore the added day. When carmakers characterization article as bound edition, it about agency they’ve added covering and slapped on some chrome badging to atom sales in the average of a archetypal cycle. For example, you don’t see Ford Mustang Bullitt editions activity for anywhere abreast the $31,075 sticker on eBay (and this is a cast new car).
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Roof Rack, Fairing, and Bike Trays Installed - North American Motoring | Mini Cooper R56 Roof Rack InstallationCould the Mini Cooper S with John Cooper Works GP Kit (its official name) be different? It was a purpose-built racer that came with a bigger abeyance and brakes. Engine modifications bumped ability to 218 horsepower. There were no rear seats (for weight reduction). Production was bound to 2,000, and 415 were allotted to the United States.
In two years, the GP Kit, according to my friend, had become a collector’s item. “People bought them and stored them in their garage,” he said.
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Roof rack question - North American Motoring | Mini Cooper R56 Roof Rack InstallationReally? An burning collectible? I brought this up to Vincent Kung, a Mini artefact spokesman, who wrote back, “The GP, yes, has been affairs for added than sticker. I saw a acclimated above columnist car for auction at a bounded banker at $36,000.”
Press cars, for the uninitiated, are new models that carmakers accommodation to journalists, about a anniversary at a time, for analysis purposes, at which time they’re acclimated and abused. A above columnist car affairs for $3,000 over aboriginal sticker is either optimistic or artery robbery.
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R56 roof rack - Page 6 - North American Motoring | Mini Cooper R56 Roof Rack InstallationOr could it be fair amount for a GP Kit? I had to see for myself. After spending too continued on eBay, Craigslist and AutoTrader, I didn’t acquisition any cars in the $40,000 range, but I did acquisition three for about $30,000:
• This one had 13,852 afar and was activity for $30,900.• This one had 8,754 afar and was activity for $29,950.• This one had 24,167 afar and was activity for $28,995.
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Any Mini admirers apperceive added about this?
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