MINI USA Introduces the Cooper S Red line Edition
MINI USA is back with its second of eight planned special edition drops for 2025. This one is called the Red Line, and if that name sounds familiar, it should. This is...
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MINI JCW F66 vs. the Tail of the Dragon: An Old Test for the New JCW
There are few roads in America that carry mythology quite like Deals Gap. Straddling the border of North Carolina and Tennessee, this remote stretch of US 129, better known as the Tail...
The Return of the Sensible MINI: MINI USA Revives the Oxford Edition Countryman for 2027
There is something quietly subversive about the Oxford Edition. In a lineup increasingly defined by tech-laden trims and creeping price tags, it has always been MINI USA’s way of reminding us that...
Our Favorite MINI April Fools’ Pranks
There are two types of automotive April Fools’ jokes. The lazy ones, dashed off by brands that should know better, and the rare good ones, the kind that feel just plausible enough...
The 25th Anniversary of the New MINI Cooper – Building a Brand While Reinventing an Icon
Reinventing a car is one thing. Reinventing a car while simultaneously inventing a brand is something else entirely. It’s a story that often gets lost in the narrative but sets the MINI’s...
Was the Wagon-Like F54 MINI Clubman Ahead of Its Time?
The F54 Clubman spent years trapped in one of the auto industry’s least forgiving categories: the car people admired but never bought. It was too big to fit the tidy little-hatchback mythology...
The Science Behind That New MINI Smell
For years MINI owners have had their own version of a familiar automotive joke. Open the door to a brand new MINI, slide into the driver’s seat, and there it is. That...
MINI Countryman Goes Full Adventure Mode With New Off-Road Accessories
When MINI releases a batch of “after sales accessories,” it is usually worth a polite nod and a quick scroll. This time, it deserves a second look. Because what MINI has just...
Revisiting the U25 Countryman JCW: MINI’s Most Powerful Car Ever
There’s a predictable cycle to every new MINI. The first drive is all adrenaline and first impressions. The specs dominate the conversation, the design gets endlessly dissected, and enthusiasts immediately begin comparing...
MINI USA Celebrates 24 Years & 1 Million Sold: How the MINI Cooper Found America and Built Something Bigger
This week MINI USA celebrates its 1 millionth car sold and its 24th birthday. So we wanted to look back at the start of this improbable journey for a brand that most...
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Are the New MINIs Actually Selling? We Now Have Our Answer
For the last year or so, one question has hung over MINI like a stubborn warning light: how would buyers respond to this new generation? Not just to the new designs, although...
The New Electric BMW i3 Might Be the Most Important New Car for MINI in 2026
There are moments in BMW Group history when a new car feels bigger than a normal launch. For MINI fans, those moments matter even more because what starts in Munich has a...
Paddy Hopkirk Memorial Foundation
db and Gabe were joined by Norm Nelson and Eric Newland, President and Vice President of the Paddy Hopkirk Memorial Foundation. They are building a life-sized bronze monument of Paddy and his...
The Best MINI Manual Ever? A Deep Dive Into the F56 JCW’s Surprising Getrag 6-Speed
For enthusiasts who still insist on three pedals, the manual gearbox in the modern JCW hatch may be one of the most underrated parts of the car. Beneath the compact bodywork of...
Stability at BMW Group, and What It Quietly Means for MINI
At first glance, BMW Group’s latest earnings report reads like the sort of corporate document designed to induce mild drowsiness. There are margins to discuss, tariffs to acknowledge, and the usual parade...
MINI Heads Back to the Forest for the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood
This weekend MINI USA and the John Cooper Works Race Team return to the American Rally Association championship for the second round of the 2026 season. The March 13–14 event, based around...
MINI Climbs to Third in J.D. Power Dependability Study, A Major Milestone for Quality
For decades, MINI ownership came with a small, unspoken disclaimer. The cars were charming, quick and bursting with personality. Reliability, however, was sometimes treated as more of a suggestion than a promise....
MINI Rally Return Starts With a Podium and It’s Just Getting Started
The 2026 American Rally Association season began exactly the way MINI hoped it might, sideways, snow-covered and standing on a podium. At the February 6–7 Sno*Drift Rally in Atlanta, Michigan, MINI USA...
The Secret AWD MINI That Could Have Changed JCW Forever
In 2004, while the R53 MINI Cooper S was busy redefining what a modern hot hatch could be, Getrag was testing something that might have redefined MINI itself: a compact, torque vectoring...
A Look Back at the Best Looking F66 MINI Cooper Yet, The Elie Saab One Off
If you ask us what the best looking F66 MINI Cooper is to date, the answer is easy. It is the Elie Saab Cooper S. Not just because of the sculptural copper...
BMW Pauses Level 3 Rollout – What It Might Mean for MINI Autonomous Driving
For some MINI owners, hands off, eyes off driving has always felt fundamentally off brand. The joy of a MINI is not in disengagement. It is in the tactility, the immediacy, the...
MINI’s Latest Special Edition Rewinds to 1965 Monte Carlo Glory
Just one week after unveiling its latest GP inspired special edition, MINI is back with another heritage play. The new MINI 1965 Victory Edition is a design focused, appearance driven package with...
MINI Takes the States 2026: Three Weekends, Nine Cities, One Very Big Birthday
In 2006, MINI USA did something that felt slightly unhinged and completely on brand. It invited owners to drive across the country in celebration of the new GP and called it MINI...
New Leaderships Takes the Wheel at MINIUSA as Mike Peyton Departs
BMW Group has announced that Sean Green will assume the role of Vice President, MINI Region Americas, effective May 1, 2026. He succeeds Mike Peyton, who has decided to pursue opportunities outside...
MINI Week in Review: GP Badge Drama, Countryman Goes Off Road and a Tariff Twist
Another week in MINI land, another reminder that the brand is at its best when it leans into myth and at its most frustrating when it monetizes it. If you felt a...
Ultra-Rare David Brown Electric Classic Mini for Sale
There are rare MINIs. There are bespoke MINIs. And then there is this: one of just three right hand drive David Brown Mini eMastered examples ever built, now quietly listed for sale....
The MINI GP Inspired Edition Arrives Without a GP to Inspire It
There is something slightly surreal about the F66 MINI GP Inspired Edition. It is a special edition that celebrates a car that does not exist. Not in this generation, anyway. When MINI...
Faith of a Few: Is This the Best MINI Cooper Commercial Ever Made?
There are plenty of memorable MINI Cooper commercials. But in 2017, the brand produced one that stood apart. A short film set in 1964 Monte Carlo that redefined how MINI talked about...
Head of MINI Design on Touchscreens vs Physical Buttons
There is a quiet course correction happening inside the modern dashboard. For the last decade, the industry convinced itself that screens were the inevitable future. Bigger meant better. Fewer buttons meant progress....
MINI Rally Recap: Grit, Snowbanks and a Podium at Sno*Drift
Sno*Drift does not ease anyone into a season. Snow-packed forest roads, ice polished by repeated passes, and margins measured in inches rather than seconds make it one of the most honest rallies...
Ferrari’s Bold UI Move Is the Lesson BMW and MINI Shouldn’t Ignore
For the past decade, in-car UI has followed a predictable path: bigger screens, more plastic, and fewer physical controls. Today, Jony Ive and Marc Newson delivered a striking counterpoint. Their vision, revealed inside Ferrari’s first all-electric...
White Roof Radio 703: We Recap MINI in 2025 & Ahead To What’s Coming in 2026
Happy New Year, White Roof – the first and longest-running MINI podcast in the world. Gabe and I recap the last couple of months of MINI news and look ahead into 2026....
North American Debut: The MINI JCW x Deus Ex Machina Concept Arrives in Toronto
When was the last time a MINI concept made automotive obsessives actually gasp? For most of us, that moment came when the MINI JCW x Deus Ex Machina concept was revealed in Europe, a...
MINI Officially Commits to Full 2026 ARA Rally Season with Two Factory-Backed Cars
It’s official – MINI is back in rally. For months we’ve been circling this story, first when we broke the news last fall that MINI was “rally curious”, and then again just...