Posted 13 August 2010 - 09:40 PM
Hi Adam,
FYI the link to your site doesn't work.
I remember reading the article on your car in Miniworld and thinking how much thought and elbow grease must have gone into it.
In terms of your business, you've already made a giant step forward with dashes and trim - a slick dash/interior combo that brought the mini bang up to date and included features modern cars take for granted (like built-in sat nav, bluetooth, climate control) could be the product that people batter down the door for. I think to make a transformation like that truly complete, you'd have to go to the trouble of restyling/replacing virtually everything the eye can see, even things like the steering column surround, switches and indicator stalks.
I could see you needing to offer either a full bespoke design service (although I dread to think what that would cost!) or offer a range of differently styled standard trim replacement kits, i.e. a classic walnut/leather combo for the traditionalists, a black rubberised/brushed aluminium combo for the modernists and maybe carbon fibre when weight is the primary consideration. In that case you would almost certainly want to offer a fitment service.
I've not got my mini yet, but I'm toying with the idea of attempting an in-dash sat nav, mp3, bluetooth, rear-view camera all-in-one jobbie. If you had a dash that offered those kind of options and looked as good as the ones in the pics there, I'd probably just save up.