MINI of Manhattan is sponsoring a hospitality tent and a chance to meet up with other MINI owners during the Vintage Festival at Lime Rock Park September 4th through the 7th. You can check it out below and even add it to your Facebook profile. Here are the details:
As we have done for the past two years, we’ll be doing our hospitality bit on Monday the 7th, complete with a shady tent and a sweet spot next to the track to watch the racing, refreshments, and hopefully some track time. More on this to come.
New this year is an invitation for clubs (that’s us!) to join on Sunday the 6th for the car show portion. They are offering each club space on the track – at no cost – to display their cars, recruit new members. etc. They’ll also give prizes for the best cars in class. Sunday has turned into a great fun day, great cars, big crowds, lots of fun. continued →
Ok we aren’t that big yet but there is a way to treat the site almost like a TV channel. Just click on the “Browse by Category” link on the top left and choose “Video“. There you have it, every video we’ve ever posted on MF in over ten pages. Or if you want to head straight to our Vimeo or Youtube Channels, just click below. You may even find some rare unreleased videos if you look hard enough.
With all the talk of RWD MINI city cars and FWD MINI speedsters we thought it was worth looking at why front wheel drive can be a great asset to performance cars at the limit. And besides, it’s Friday and we want to watch some video!
Worldcarfans have some new photos of the MINI SAV that everyone loves to hate argue about. Included is the first look at the interior of the car. However we’d strongly encourage you to not make too many assumptions based on the photo above. It’s clear that this is very much a rough prototype and is simply making use of stock MINI parts to cobble together a functional interior. Look for something different than this and from what is in current MINI range when this car debuts at Frankfurt this fall and goes on sale to the public in 2010.
MINI UK are releasing three new limited edition models based on the One, Cooper and Cooper D. The models will be in production from Week 16 (week starting 27 April 2009) to Week 40 (week starting 28 September 2009). The official model names are:
MINI One GRAPHITE
MINI Cooper GRAPHITE
MINI Cooper D GRAPHITE
In addition to the standard UK specification of the respective MINI One, MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper D Hatch, these Special Editions feature the following enhancements:
Dark Silver metallic paint, previously only available for Cooper S models
Special Edition “GRAPHITE” badging on B-Pillar
Bonnet Stripes (Black for MINI One GRAPHITE and Black or White for MINI Cooper/Cooper D GRAPHITE)
15″ Rotator Spoke alloy wheels for MINI One GRAPHITE
16″ Bridge Spoke alloy wheels with Run-flat tyres for MINI Cooper/Cooper D GRAPHITE
This official BMW Group release details not only MINI’s worldwide sales for March for also the BMW Group as a whole: In March the BMW Group’s sales performance was again impacted by the global economic and financial crisis. In the month under review the BMW Group delivered 126,375 (prev.yr.: 152,586 / -17.2%) vehicles worldwide. Ian Robertson, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, responsible for Sales and Marketing: “The 17.2% decrease in March was smaller than in previous months. We have seen some encouraging signs in key markets like the United States and Germany. However, it is still too early to talk about a global turnaround.†continued →
The MINI Crossover has done the rounds in the Arctic and now it’s on to suspension development at the Nurburgring. Globalmotoring.net has a new batch of photos of the crossover from this past week at the famed track.
Look for the new model to debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show this September with photos to leak out a few weeks beforehand. For more on the R60 MINI Crossover be sure to check out MotoringFile’s R60 section.
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Sections: Events Apr 14th, 2009 5 Comments 
