Opinion: Drive Small or (They Will) Die
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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Opinion: MINI Should Make Adaptive Cruise a Low Cost Option
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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Let’s Create Our Own MINI Cooper Signature Line
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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Opinion: Is MINI Forgetting what it Means to be Mini?
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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Opinion: We Want Another R53 Cooper S
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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BMWM to Eliminate Manual Transmissions from – What Does it Mean for MINI?
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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November US Sales Numbers in Context
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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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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