Archive for June 25th, 2007

MINI United Photos (Day 3)

Sections: Events, MINI United Jun 25th, 2007 No Comments

We’ll be organizing the photos a bit more later in the week for a large photo post. Also keep an eye out for our full MINI United 2007 recap coming in the days ahead. But until then, have a look below:

[ MINI United Gallery ] Gabe’s Flickr Page

[ MINI United Set ] DB’s Flickr Page

[ MINI United Gallery ] Official MINI Flickr Page

MINI United; 3 Days and 8,000 MINI Fans

Sections: Events, MINI United, Official News Jun 25th, 2007 4 Comments

(Official MINI Press Release) For this Dutch seaside town, summer has never begun quite like it did this year! Over the course of three days, more than 8000 MINI fans from 50 different countries flooded the Circuit Park on the North Sea coast for the MINI United Festival 2007. Under the banner of ‘Friends. Festival. Challenge.’, the worldwide community of MINI fans enjoyed a unique mixture of racing atmosphere, party and lifestyle. It even exceeded the resounding success of the MINI United premiere in 2005. The event underscores the growth of the MINI community and the enjoyment of the MINI brand, lifestyle and sense of community seems to be limitless.

With the North Sea on the one side, and a sea of 3000 MINIs on the other covering the town’s roads and car parks, Zandvoort was certainly the perfect location for the biggest MINI festival ever. Many of the guests had travelled a long distance to be there and join in the action of the MINI United 2007. The longest journey of all was undertaken by Yuliya Tkachenko from Krasnodar in Russia: She left her home seven days before the festival began, travelling some 4200km in her MINI to be sure of arriving in time for the event. continued →

MotoringFile May Photo Contest results

Sections: MF Photo Contest Jun 25th, 2007 10 Comments

With Summer now in full swing and the end of June looming, it’s time to recognize the photographers who provided us with some fantastic imagery during the month of May. The beautiful Spring weather here in the US has given us all some excuses to get out to motor a bit and fortunately many of you are carrying your cameras along!

This fourth installment of the MotoringFile Photo Contest saw an even gross of eligible images from the MotoringFile Flickr group with subjects ranging from cute couples and high-mileage MINIs to bouts of obsessive detailing and mean curves. One of the reasons it takes us so long to get through all these wonderful shots is that we keep getting sidetracked looking at more cool photos!

And so, without further ado, we present this month’s winners!

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