For those of you that got episode 220 in your reader/iTunes, here it is, corrected.
News of the week from Motoringfile.com, but since it was mostly MTTS related, we recapped the week instead.
We had a great week and you’ve seen most of it. To recap, we posted over 700 photos, over an hour of video and almost 2 hour of audio! Thanks everyone for checking it out or coming by to say during the event. It was great to meet you all!
Planning to attend Chicago or LA? Don’t forget to register. They also posted quite a few updates during Miami and Boston that you can see here.
Check back tomorrow for the JCW show. You aren’t going to want to miss it!
Woofcast 253:
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Here it is, all of the audio from MTTS 2008. Listen in as we start in Miami and work our way north to Boston. With many interviews along the way.
Some of you have asked about the MINI we drove. We had an Astro Black R56 S with body colored roof, sunroof and automatic transmission. Yes, we know we are Whiteroofradio. I think someone at MINI USA was having a little bit of fun with us.
This is the last of the audio and there is quite a bit of it. I still have more coming in the shape of video and photos, so you can watch for those later today.
And, if you are wanting to go to either of the remaining MTTS events (like I know you are), be sure to take a minute and register. You can subscribe while you are there and get all of the updates MINIUSA was posting as well.
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Reprinted from Motoringfile to get it into the feed.
Exclusive! The Factory JCW will be getting the burble exhaust sound back as was on late R53 models. This is great news and you can see and hear for yourself at your local dealer starting July 14.
If you have the chance to test drive the MINI JCW you must take the opportunity but if you are a fan of the JCW you better get your order in now. Starting July 14 MINI will begin delivering the MINI JCW to U.S. dealers for some eager early adopters. The MINI JCW will be making appearances at the remaining MTTS events in Chicago and LA in late July and early August.
In Savannah, GA and Charleston, SC, talking to MINI Owners including our friend Murray who we actually convinced to join us at one more MTTS event!
Oh yea, and Tony the Peanut Man! Awe. Some. If you don’t know you’d better ax somebody!
The journey continues onward to Boston. Watch for more stuff coming.
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We’ve been talking to Rauno everyday this week and getting some great stories from him! This is our actually interview with him from MTTS Miami.
Little did Rauno know, but Todd kept the recorder running a little longer than the actual interview, so we also got him talking about traction and how it applies to the MINI. He is brilliant!
Enjoy.
By the way, you have registered, right? If you are planning to attend MTTS Boston, Chicago or LA, make sure you do that now!
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Todd and I at MTTS Miami on Saturday! We get a chance to talk to quite a few people and interview Michelle Branch!
So far so good. Our internet connectivity has been lacking this week, which is why the delay.
We have even more audio coming, including some time with Rauno Aaltonen that you are going to love!
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We are all here and to start you off, we went to Bicentennial Park to hang out with about 300 MINI and Mini owners who were treated to a Movie by MINIUSA and MINIs of Miami.
We are off to get Day 2 started! Until I get a chance to get them organized and posted, you can view the photos on my Flickr stream. You can get a sneak peak at the videos here as well.
There will be more later! Plus, we will be making an attempt and doing something live from Homestead! Keep an eye on my Twitter for updates.
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Can you believe this actually starts this week? Here at WRR we are getting pretty excited as you can imagine. Hopefully we’ll be able to share most of that excitement with you as well!
Before going further, do make sure you have registered for the MTTS event you are going to be attending. Besides saving $10, you will get a bag of swag for sure and the proceedes go to local charities. Win-win in my book!
Now, to keep up with all of the action.
- All photos will be on my Flickr, in the MTTS 2008 Flickr group and on Todd’s Flickr
- All videos will be posted to Whiteroof.tv for download and Vidder to watch
- Updates, as they happen, will come from Twitter, including when we broadcast live via uStream.tv
- All audio will, of course, be up on WRR for download with a player on Motoringfile.com.
To make things easier, I have set up a special RSS feed (actually it’s ATOM, but it will work in any reader) that will aggregate Twitter, Flickr, WRR and WR.tv. You can subscribe to that here.
I have already posted our possible live schedule here in case you missed it. Keep in mind that this is very tentative and is very much subject to change. This is where twitter will come in handy to keep up-to-date should things change.
Stay tuned! things are just getting warmed up!
Yes indeed, you did read that correctly! After many months of testing in our labs we have discovered that we can, for sure, broadcast live audio from the front seat of a MINI to anyone that wants to listen along via uStream.tv. Video was choppy, but we are hoping for a stronger connection then we go in our lab.
All that being said, here is our tentative live show schedule for MTTS Miami, Boston and all places in between. All times are EST and subject to change without us saying a damned thing about it.
- Saturday, June 14th - Live from Homestead at 3:00 EST
- Sunday, June 15th - MTTS Wrap up, Live @ 1:30 EST
- Monday, June 16th - Live@12:00est from the car
- Tuesday, June 17th - Live from the road @ 12:00EST
- Wednesday, June 18th - Live from the road @ 12:00 EST
- Thursday, June 19th - Live from the road @12:00 EST
- Friday, June 20th - Live from the road @12:00 EST
- Saturday, June 21st - Live from MTTS grounds # 3:00 EST
- Sunday, June 22nd - We are hoping for something special at around 1:30 EST
The best way to keep up is to follow me via Twitter or keep an eye on my FriendFeed. I’ll post updates and announcements along the way to keep you up-to-date!
Besides the live shows, we will still be posting audio, video and photos at all the usual places.
Along the way from Miami to Boston we would like to meet as many of you will come out to see us. Let us know! We are already meeting up with a couple of clubs and would like to have all of those details hammered out by early next week so we can get that posted as well.
See you next week!
We gave you the chance to ask some questions, and Gina Koutros took almost 20 minutes with us earlier today to answer them.
Besides the questions, we also get some more information about the way the events were planned, hows and whys and all that.
There will be more updates coming a little later this week or early next. You can get updates automatically via email or subscribe via RSS. Of course, we will be posting those updates at Motoringfile.com as well.
And, finally, don’t forget to register if you plan on going! If you want the goodie bag, you are going to have to register!
And, keep up with WRR, MF and WR.tv for all of our coverage. Audio, video, photos and blog posts. So, if for whatever reason you can’t make it, we’ll have you covered!
Interview with Gina 3:
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Another from our live outing last Saturday. Before getting into talking about MPG and the JCW MINI we had a little Cinco de Mayo Celebration. It was fun if you missed it.
If you did miss the live outing because I forgot to post it the day before, you could always follow me on Twitter. I post that kind of thing there all the time.
Also, some requests out the WRR Audience. Looking for someone to run the WRR MySpace Page and, if you fancy yourself a writer and would like to write a review of a product that you have used to share with the MF audience, let us know.
MTTS is right around the corner! We’ll be bringing you full coverage from all of the events as well as the road trip from Miami to Boston! And, WRR turns 3 during the LA stop, so if you are around, come find us to help celebrate!
Woofcast 242:
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Since Gabe is out of town, we thought it would be a treat to have Michael and Robert on this week as a precursor to AMVIV next week.
A quick recap of how Micheal got to be known as the ‘Free Porn King’ of Las Vegas and Robert is subscribing to WRR in Apple stores all over Canada.
Then, of course, news of the week from Motoringfile.com.
As we’ve been saying for the last bit of forever, the four of us will be at AMVIV later this week. If you are going, be sure to come by and say hi! Or keep an eye out here for audio, video, photos and words. We’ll have your covered!
And nowhere else to go for your MTTS news and information. WRR and MF will be covering all 4 weeks of MTTS ‘08! Expect another update to come down after AMVIV, and you’ll read it here first!
Woofcast 233:
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Gina Koutros from MINIUSA took time away from getting ready for the New York Auto Show to give us some more detail on MINI Takes the States 2008!
We find out the reasoning behind selection Miami, Boston, Chicago and LA for this years event. Plus a sneak peak into the reasoning behind separate weekends. For those of you that missed it, there was a poll conducted late last year as to what type of event owners would like to see, and the four regional events won hands down!
Again, those dates for those of you that haven’t put it into your calendars yet.
- Miami: June 13-15
- Boston: June 20-22
- Chicago: July 25-27
- Los Angeles: August 1-3
Everyone is invited, even if they don’t own a MINI! Of course, there will be something special going on for owners only as well. Registration should be open around the 2nd week of April. Don’t worry, we’ll be sure to let you know when as soon as we know!
Keep an eye (and ear) out here and Motoringfile for all the news and updates about MINI Takes the States 2008. No need to look anywhere else!
Event Update: MTTS
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I’m noticing that some of you are going back through the archives to check out our MTTS coverage from 2006. Excellent! Makes me excited about what MINI might have in store for us for this year.
To make it easier for you to check out that coverage, I’ve gone back and installed the flash audio player on all of those posts, which you can find here.
Comments are still open on those posts as well, so feel free to leave any feedback or questions you might have. As long as you don’t ask about what’s going on in ‘08. We still only know as much as you and that is 4 events spread out across the US. But as soon as we know more, you’ll know. Well, more like as soon as we know you’ll know as soon as we are allowed to pass it along ;).
How about a little bit of reporting from those of you that have actually participated in MTTS this time around? Plus, Todd did a great Interview with Ian Cull and Gabe where he got their take, after 2,000 miles, on the GP.
Coming down the home stretch gang and we are almost done! Make sure if you are out for these last few days that you go out and thank any of the MINIUSA folks you can for putting on such a great event! Oh yea, thank Fireball Tim and his crew too for helping out with our MTTS Coverage!
MPG contest has finished. Winners will be announced on Woof 92 (September 10th, 2006). Thanks to all of you that participated!
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