After owning a few pairs of Piloti Driving shoes for a few years I realized that our customers would most likely enjoy them as much as I have and do. Piloti shoes are the ultimate choice for those looking for a casual daily wear shoe that not only have the technical features needed to be a great shoes for use when Autocrossing or doing road races yet are VERY comfortable as a day to day shoe. I wear them for 10-14 hours straight at the office on concrete floors and they have always been very easy on my feet. I currently have about 5 pairs of Piloti Shoes to match my mood. A few people have recently emailed asking if these shoes are only for driving and my answer is that while they were designed to be a great driving shoe and have features that make the ideal for driving and racing they are actually some of the most comfortable shoes I have ever owned and I wear mine frequently. They are very supportive, are easy to put on and take off and look cool. I say ditch your Nikes and get some of these pups.

Of course, in most of the color patterns that they offer they are a quite different from most ‘normal’ shoes. Keep in mind that MINI Cooper owners tend to be anything but normal or mainstream. My guess is that most will find it fun to pick a Piloti shoe that matches their MINI Cooper. I got a pair of the Prototipos in Black and yellow to go with my Yellow MINI Coooper S and love em’. They also have some pretty clean and simple looking shoes for those that want something more mainstream. Check out the Black and White Prototipos or the Sebring in Black and Tifosi Red. The G16 in the Olive and gum is also a pretty slick looking casual shoe.

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For those die hard Out Motoring fans out there we now have chrome letter badge kits ready to apply to your MINI Cooper.

I did this front view of the MINI Cooper in Freehand. Just to back up a bit and fill in those non-graphics folds out there what that is..Freehand is a illustration program that allows users to basically create anything or any shape using arcs, lines, curves and shapes, etc. It’s a very cool program that has been out there for quite a while but was bought along with the whole macromedia suite by Adobe a few years ago. Basically Freehand was the biggest competitor with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe wanted to get rid of the competiton but more importantly they wanted Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver because their web design product had taken the very back seat amongst designers.

So anyways, I have used Freehand for about 10 years and know it inside and out and have used Illustrator off and on but am switching to it entirely as Freehand will be killed off soon by Adobe. So, I created this graphic that I just loved and wanted to do something with so I turned it into a shirt (actually two shirts). One has a heart on it and is called “MINI Girly Love” and the other is called “its not cute” and yes all the punctuation and such are designed to be wrong. I will take some heat for it but don’t care.

So, check them out. People love them!

http://www.outmotoring.com/mini-cooper/out-motoring-its_not_cute-shirt.html