UKPylot’s MINI Blog

Whilst looking at the Google Analytics report for my little site today that almost 50% of my traffic comes from the excellent MINI ‘news’ portal GoMotoring.com. They’ve recently added a new site to their family: MotoringCards.com which lets you send a motoring-themed e-card. There are some excellent pictures to choose from so send a loved one a card today.

Google released their new google blog search today. My first search was for MINI Cooper blogs and whose blog was at the very top – Ian’s GBMini weblog!! Well done, Ian!

Sadly, this humble offering was not on the first page and neither was the rockin’ dbmini either!

However, if you search for ‘private pilot’ then my flying diary is the top related blog – whoo hoo!

AMVIV3 will be March 24-26, 2006 at the Palace Station. I think we’ll try to make it this time.

After boring me beyond tears with their woofcast devoted to tyres, the good folk at whiteroofradio.com have redeemed themselves with a great discussion with Randy Webb. I don’t know a throttle body from a hole in the ground but the technical info was cool to listen to.

There’s a new competition at the Owner’s Lounge – a trip to MINI United being up for grabs. Each day MINIUSA will give you a photo assignment, you upload your picture and someobody gets to win. Today’s assignment, for day one, is to Find a diner that looks like it’s been around for a while. Park your MINI curbside and tell it to say “cheeseburger and milkshake.”. Check out the competition at the Scavenger Hunt website.

I’m about a month late in joining the party but I finally got to listen to the rapidly becoming infamous White Roof Radio PodCasts; senors Todd and DB waxing lyrical on our favourite topic(s). I’ve only listened to one so far and found it fairly entertaining and easy on the ear. Perhaps a little too long for me and I wonder if there are enough topics to keep up a regular ‘broadcast’ but props to them for putting it together and doing a good job with it. I don’t know that I will tune in every time but I’ll definitely check it out from time to time.

Got a flyer at the weekend announcing the opening of the new MINI showroom at Brecht. This weekend they are having a bit of a celebratory bash and claim to have over 60 MINIs on the lot. I think I’ll pop over and see what they have. Perhaps they’ll leave their markup off as part of their celebration??

Update: If this car wasn’t black I’d be all over it!

I was thinking about changing plates for the new vehicle, something that combines the MINI theme and my flying. Best I could come up with was MNIFLYER but it is already taken. Got any better ideas – please leave ‘em in the comments!