After years of anticipation CarPlay finally arrived on MINIs last year. Offered in its latest and great wireless form, it promised unequalled mobile integration and ease of use. We’ve been living with it in our new JCW Countryman and over the last 5,000 miles have formed a few well informed opinions. Notably that CarPlay is at best medicroe and should be classified as beta software until major updates are offered.
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The term MINI Cooper has become the brand name for MINI in the US and it drives us at MF crazy. Let’s back up…
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Small cars are dying in the United States. This week Ford announced that it will no longer be selling traditional sedans in North America…
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As MINI looks to get its footing back in the US market there are a couple of areas that the brand clearly needs to…
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MINI USA is releasing something called “The MINI Cooper Signature Line” – a package that brings a handful of key options to customers for…
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As MINI prepares to design and engineer the next generation of MINIs, we thought we’d get the cards on the table and talk about…
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163 hp, 2600 lbs and $22,000. Those approximate numbers were some of the key ingredients to one of the most successful cult cars of…
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According to our sister site BimmerFile, BMW is moving to eliminate manual transmissions (and DCTs) from all its products in the next “handful of…
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Due to travel conflicts, we couldn’t post the November sales numbers in the context of the industry as a whole. This post is about…
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Pedestrian impact standards. Crash standards. Efficiency standards. Lets just get them out of the way. These are the typical reasons stated why automakers redesign…
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