MINI International Photo Award

From MINI Press: Within the scope of the International Talent Support from July 14th to 17th 2005 a renowned jury will nominate a new shooting star of photgraphy. ITS#FOUR – International Talent...

Plant Oxford: MINI Manufacturing Tour

With MINI’s new Motoring Holiday program in full swing, many of you are actively considering making the trek over and doing the Oxford Plant Tour. So it’s with exceptional timing that Pat...

New Outerwear from MOTORINGGEAR

This new product info comes from MINIUSA Press: Motoring into the great wide open requires functional fashion sense — and a sense of fun. MINI USA introduces the latest “must have” apparel:...

Worldwide MINI Sales Up for May

More May sales numbers from MINI (from MINI Press): The MINI brand worldwide is convincingly continuing its sustained growth course. In May, the increase in sales was 14.2% to 17,511 automobiles (previous...

2002 MCS Report (3 years/61,412 miles)

This report comes from long-time MotoringFIle contributor Dave Bunting: On June 7th, 2002 I flew from Denver to New York, purchased my 2002 MINI COOPER S, and hit the road to drive...

2006 Model Year Timeline

Update: It now appears certain that the 2006 model year will begin in September 2005. MotoringFile has just received word on the time-table for the 2006 MINI. While a final decision is...

Step Three: MINI Delivered

Once again I’m a MINI owner. I had expected delivery to take place almost exactly 30 days after ordering. However, with my original shipping date getting moved back over a week and...

BMW Engines and MINI's Future

For those that continue to be concerned about the 2007 MINI’s upcoming German engineered powerplant, we’ve got some reading for you. The first story from from Edmunds Inside Line and among other...

The MINI is at the Dealer

After being pulled off one ship to wait at the docks for over a week before getting on another, and after suffering through a holiday weekend that did nothing but wreak havoc...

MotoringFile May Stats

Since we’re talking numbers, I thought I’d let you all know how MotoringFile did in terms of site stats for the month of May. Visits: 300,000 Pages Served: 1,400,000 Bandwidth: way too...