Find MINI Dealers in Atlanta, Georgia

Saw on the Global Imports Mini website that they are running 2009 Mini Coopers at $500 below MSRP. I guess the market has slowed even for them!

Hi! I may be crazy, but I am thinking about trading my 2007 G35S Infiniti for a Mini Cooper S. I LOVE the look of the car and I am in the process of selling my house in Kirkwood and want to take a condo in Midtown. This would be a great car to run errands and for my infrequent trips out of town. Let me know if you have any "real world" experience with Global Imports Mini or any other dealers here in Atlanta. Thanks!

I have run into this fee in Atlanta as well. I just look at the fee as essentially the cost of the car. My father is in the car business in a small town and I can get better deals in Atlanta, which includes the Doc prep fee, than he can in North Carolina. It is all about volume. I try to pay as close to invoice, get all of the rebates or financing deals for myself, and looko at the bottom line out the door price. It doesn't really matter what you call it other than money and to total walkout cost. Now if they are springing it on you at the last minute, then %$#%#$$ them. Walk away!

In Atlanta, the documentation fees have gotten out of hand.   I used to work at a dealership in town, and we initially had a doc fee of $149,and then we bumped it to $199, ...$249, ...$299,... $399, and finally $499 all in a period of 3 1/2 years. People kept paying it. We used to not include it if a car was advertised in the newspaper as a loss leader, because it was illegal to sell the car for more money then what was advertised; but then new management took over, and they told us to get "strong" and get the fee, and dare the customers to sue us. We sent many a shopper home without the ad car. I left the business in 1998, but it seems like nothing in Atlanta has changed. The dealers still take advantage, because the buying public keeps paying it.

Thanks for the input. I guess I'm not so mad at the dealer it just really stunk to be treated so badly by the members of the MINI group here in Atlanta. I swear, because I had the balls to say anything negative about the MINI and the dealership and their charges, I swear that they treated me like I was rejecting god himself! There were a few moments and posts when I felt like these people were "posessed by MINI"!!!! All kidding aside. I love a lot of vehicles but I've found that the perfect vehicle and/or dealership just isn't out there. There are a lot of great things about every vehicle and a lot of not so great things.