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AMVIV7 will be March 25-28, 2010.

Total cars in attendance at AMVIV6: 478

MINIUSA is now sponsoring the Meet The MINIACS Mixer

MINIUSA has sent us some money to pay for the hors d'ouvers during the mixer on Friday night. Many thanks to the MINI corporate people who continue to show that they appreciate the people who love these little cars.

Check out this promo video from Ladd Pagan

The shirt, hat and grille badge designs

The design contest was won by COOPERation who entered some amazing artwork, as did all our entrants in the AMVIV6 design contest. You can see the winning designs (which will be the event shirt, hat and grille badge art) here.

Event Mailing List

Add yourself to the AMVIV mailing list here. Keep up to date with all the AMVIV news as it happens. We promise not to use your email address for anything other than actual AMVIV related emails, and we won't send too many of those, just the things you need to know.

Prior AMVIV videos for your enjoyment

The Sin City MINI Club's own Ladd has put together a video showing some of the fun from prior AMVIVs. Have a look here. It includes still images from various people, plus video from the plane that followed several runs last year and the Strip overpass during the Strip Cruise.

Rob Saunders posted back in April '07 a great video of his experiences at AMVIV4. Have a look here. You might see yourself in it if you were here.

I also have finally done my writeup of AMVIV5. Have a look.

MotorTrend covered AMVIV4

Many thanks go out to our good friend Melissa aka WickedGolf who is a MotorTrend writer and convinced her bosses to cover AMVIV for the 2nd time.
Read her coverage on MotorTrend.com.

Melissa's coverage of AMVIV3 is still accessible here.

HISTORY

In September of 2003, Dominic Tuso and Andrew Ross started talking about organizing a group drive for about 10 to 20 of the Arizona MINI Owners to visit Las Vegas for a weekend of fun and relaxation. By the time the drive happened in February of 2004, it had snowballed to a national event with MINIs and Minis coming from all over the US, as well as attention from other countries, and somewhere over 200 cars attending (we never did get an accurate count).

That was A MINI Vacation In Vegas. The original. It was such a success and so much fun, that there was an immediate call to start planning a sequel event. After some intense volunteering, it was decided that the Sin City MINI Club would co-ordinate the 2005 event, A MINI Vacation In Vegas II (aka AMVIV2). AMVIV2 happened in early March of 2005 and was bigger and better than the original, so we started planning AMVIV3 a couple of months after it ended.

To try to get some better weather and to ensure that a track day could occur, AMVIV3 moved to the end of March, 2006. The end result was over 300 cars and a fantastic event that was a huge hit in the MINI community.

AMVIV4 was March 22 - 25th, 2007 and built on the previous success. The final count was just under 500 MINIs and Minis, and the event has become known as one of the biggest and funnest MINI events in the world.

In 2008, AMVIV5 ran from March 27 - 30th (the weekend of the last Sunday in March, as usual) and attracted 572 MINIs and Minis.

March 26 - 29th, 2009 was AMVIV 6. Due to the mess going on in the economy, attendance was down a little from 2008, but pretty close to the turnout for 2008 at 478 MINIs and Minis with 230 on the Strip Cruise.

AMVIV Lucky Number 7 will run from March 25th to 28th, 2010 and we're expecting it to be THE MINI event of the year once again. See you here!