MotoringFile was born out of a love for all things MINI. Technically started in January 2003 with our first post announcing that MINI had just won car of the year. But in reality it started way before. I grew up with a love for all things automotive. That fascination was particularly influenced by my dad’s BMW 2002tii and my love for all things British.
A friendly reminder that you only have 12 hours to get your questions in to us for our interview with MINI USA Product manager Jeff Stracco. As you may recall we’ll be...
R&T has a timely article in this month’s issue about everyones favorite 11-mile stretch of road. Here’s an excerpt: >Driving the Dragon requires full-time concentration. Hands at 3 and 9 o’clock are...
The continuing high demand for the MINI makes the expansion of production capacities in the UK MINI plant in Oxford essential. In the medium term, annual capacity there is being expanded to...
We’re back and we’ve got photos. Everything from a few action shots to even some dragon induced carnage. I’ll be writing a brief summary in the next few days but first, some...
MINI USA and MotoringFile are going to bring you the answers. Answers to what? Answers to those MINI related questions you’ve itching to know for months or even years. Using my Motoringfile...
Long time reader and recent contributor James Day has created a Mozilla Search Plugin which lets you search the MotoringFile website from a search box on the Mozilla Firefox Toolbar. It works...
Greetings from the Travel Lodge somewhere in Kentucky. The Chicago Dragon group (it’s more of a coalition really) has made it halfway. I’ll be posting photos from the road to the MotoringFile...
Frequent contributor Dave Bunting will be the ruler of all things MotoringFile for the next couple of days as I head down south for some Dragon slaying. Dave is well versed in...
While Dave will probably be posting a bit more on the recent (and untimely) death of several MINI colors, I thought I’d make a special mention on Liquid Yellow. As we reported...
And the total number of those registered for this year’s largest MINI event in North America….(drum roll please)… 612. Of course there will be dozens more there that haven’t registered so the...