the purchase of a new Mini Cooper was a good decision. My then-boyfriend, now-husband was sneaky and did all of this research behind my back so that he could surprise me at the dealership. We went for our little test drive and waved goodbye to the cars in the showroom on our way out. And then Darr turns to me and says quite calmly “What color do you want?” Woohoo! I was so flabbergasted I could barely spit out sentence fragments let alone choose a color. But choose a color we did, British Green, and after requesting one slight modification - they used the European specs so we could have all six toggles instead of a row of six with one missing - and writing the check for our down payment, we waited. We waited for three long months. And finally, we got the call that our car, which we named Sophie the Great, had arrived. We’ve been motoring ever since. I highly recommend it if you get the chance.