This is coming together way faster than I was anticipating. Scott received a package in our mail today and was was in it? Behold!
I do have to say, I prefer the font used online:
And I still say, Ontario needs to get more creative with their plates. BC, Alberta and Newfoundland & Labrador have beautiful multi coloured plates!
Forget UPS and FedEX, they’ve got nothing on this:
Our car has officially been ‘sold’ from Plant Oxford and is now in 
Southampton awaiting loading onto the MV Torrens which is a massive floating parking lot for cars and vehicles, in this case, travelling from Germany, Belgium and the UK to Canada and the United States.
Checking the weather in Southampton, the car is definitely going to be getting used to some cooler weather. We’re having similar weather in Toronto and Halifax. We’ll see what the next week brings.
Using Marinetraffic.com, we’ll be able to track the MV Torrens as it crosses the Atlantic.
The MV Torrens is a British-registered ship built in 2004. 200m length overall, beam of 32m, and has a gross tonnage of 61,321 tons
On voyage CA543-TRS it stopped in Bremerhaven, Germany; Zeebrugge, Belgium before arriving in Southhampton, UK on Sunday. Then sails to Halifax, Canada; New York City, USA; and then Brunswick, GA, USA; dropping off it’s automative cargo. Prior to being in Germany, it spent time in Peru and Panama.
Cars Live is a really cool broadcast from the BBC that documents the life of a car at… Plant Oxford, the primary home of the MINI Cooper.
The broadcast was done over two nights in the UK on October 20th and October 21st.
Our car was completed production on October 21 and was on the same production line as the show was filming – live! Though it is doubtful it got any camera time, there were a few VINs shown during the show that I was able to confirm on BIMMER.WORK and yes, our car was in fact finished production at the same time based on the VINs I checked out.
Some interesting things I learned from the broadcast
This could mean, our car, barring any issues is actually in Southhampton awaiting loading on a ship.
This is exciting!