November 2004

JC Challenge Joins British GT/F3 Series

This news comes from Crash.net: Following its elevation to 'promoted series' status by the MSA, the John Cooper Challenge has been confirmed as the primary support race series for the British GT...

US MINIs (again) Speak w/Brit English

From frequent contributor Ian Cull and gbmini.net In the early days of the new MINI, with CD-based navigation, you could have directions spoken with a British voice which seemed to many owners...

Small Cars Go Big Time in the US

Fox News (of all places) has a short piece on the MINI's popularity in the US. Here's are a few excerpt: The Mini has shown carmakers that small cars can do well...

North American Motoring 2005 Calendar

The 2005 North American Motoring Calendar is out and available over at the NAM store. Like last year the 2005 calendar is a collection of black and white photos from MINI owners...

The JCW Do-It-Yourself Upgrade Kit

For those that like to get hands on with their MINI and have the previous John Cooper Works kit for their MCS we now have the official install PDF instructions on the...

Twin-lamp Shock For New MINI

AutoExpress has some news on the next iteration of everyone's favorite small car. Mechanically speaking there's nothing really new from the article that we haven't heard on MotoringFile many times before –...

Dension Introduces the Ice>Link Plus

Dension has made a key upgrade to its already popular Ice>Link iPod adapter (reviewed last spring). For those that don't know the Ice>Link was the first to integrate the iPod and the...

Join the Queue for New MINI

What Car? (a UK car mag) shows that the US isn't the only place that has long wait times and high residuals for the new MINI. Here's an excerpt: Waiting times (in...

MotoringFile 2004 Holiday Gift Guide

We’d like to introduce the MotoringFile 2004 Holiday Gift Guide downloadable PDF. Instead of just posting a few gift ideas like we did last year we’ve created a downloadable PDF that can...