Why Can’t MINI Continue Making Its Old Cars?
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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Runflats vs Non-Runflats – Are There Any Winners?
Last Friday I was on the receiving end of a tire-shredding Chicago pothole for the second time in two months. The first happened as…
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Why Are MINI USA Sales Are Dropping?
Fact: Since 2008 MINI USA’s share of total MINI sales has steadily decreased. Even the raw numbers (courtesy of reader Nick Dawson) are pretty…
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MTTS 2016 – MINI’s Massive Traveling Festival Grows Up While Staying (Mostly) the Same
The 2016 version of MINI Takes the States is not just the largest of all time, participation has more than doubled since the rally last…
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What Does the Brexit Mean for MINI?
The brexit votes have been tallied and the UK is officially leaving the EU. The implication are enormous throughout the world but at MF…
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Opinion: Can MINI Grow its Sales in the US?
There have been plenty of conversations on MF and elsewhere recently around MINIUSA’s sales seemingly stagnating. And for 2016 the number are more than…
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R56 JCW GP Revisited: Why it May Still be the Ultimate MINI
Three years ago I fell in love on a beautiful island in the Mediterranean. The 2013 R56 JCW GP carved the mountain corners of…
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The Most Underrated Option on MINIs is…
We’ve specced our fair share of MINIs over the years and followed MINIUSA’s tweaking of options and packages. The truth is that the most…
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How the R53 MINI Re-Ignited Car Enthusiasm
Peter Egan – we couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Earlier today I was behind the wheel of a well cared for and well…
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57% of JCWs in the US Are Manual – Lets Keep it that Way
So often we’re told that the US market is all about automatics. MINI USA has given us some stats that prove that is simply…
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