New Bluetooth Integration and Armrest
MINI will be releasing a new bluetooth system with armrest at the end of Q1 '05. The system is listed as only working with three phones: the SonyEricsson T610(6), and the Siemens...
US & Worldwide MINI Sales Up for October
Here's the US info from MINIUSA PR: MINI USA reported an increase of 3.2 percent in October sales, with 3,189 MINI automobiles compared to the 3,091 sold in the same month of...
Washer Fluid and Orange Lights
This is from an internal MINI UK bulletin and it may just be the most underrated change of the past year: The washer bottle capacity will increase on all models by 0.4...
MotoringFile Review: Cooper S Convertible
My week with the MINI Cooper S convertible has come and gone all too quickly. While I’ve never had much of a soft spot in my heart for open top cars I’ve...
Contacting and Contributing to MotoringFile
We get a ton of email daily at MotoringFile with Matt handling technical questions while I try to tackle the rest. And as you can expect much of what we get we...
MF Mailbag: Where's the MINI/iPod Adapter?
In this edition of the MotoringFile Mailbag we tackle the question, where is the official iPod adapter for the MINI: Question: I have not heard anything lately about the perpetually delayed MINI/iPod...
Ask a Motoring Advisor is Back!
MotoringFile is happy to announce a new edition of Ask a Motoring Advisor. In this edition we'll be using the expertise of Aleks from Hassel MINI in Freeeport, NY. As before Aleks...
Day Six with the MCS Convertible
The MINI Convertible suffers one major downside that is common to most open top cars – a huge blind spot. It's so bad that my lane change turn signal starts about 5...
Official MINI Armrest Delayed?
For undetermined reasons MINI has delayed the official introduction of the new armrest until 2/05 production. Here's a bit of an explanation from an internal MINI UK release: Due to a problem...
Chili Pack Changes
For those of you where the Chili Pack is offered as an option you can expect some changes for 2005. Here is the official bulletin from MINI: The standard wheels within the...