MINI USA Price Increases for 2006
Like last year, MINI USA will be increasing the prices across the model range for 2006. However, unlike last year (when all cars on the lot by 1.1.05 got the increase) this...
Motor Trend Drives the MCSa
MotorTrend takes a short drive in that lightening rod of opinions, the Cooper S Automatic. >Sad but true: Less than 10 percent of all vehicles sold in the U.S. and Canada have...
MINI Plant Construction to Cause Shortage?
As we’ve reported over the past year, BMW is investing over $200 million dollars to expand the MINI Plant in Oxford for 2006. While this will give MINI further flexibility and scalability,...
Global MINI Sales Up for Q3
A total of 51,299 MINI brand cars were sold between July and September 2005, an increase of 7.5% (third quarter 2004: 47,713 units). 159,413 MINI were delivered to customers during the first...
MotoringFile Analysis: JCW GP Kit
With all the hype and build up of the rumored “lightweight” Cooper S, there was probably little MINI could do to actually impress everyone. With numbers like 230bhp and 15% weight reduction...
White Roof Radio Podcast #20
This week we focus on the newly released John Cooper Works GP Kit that everyone loves to talk about. Lots opinions and some of them may surprise you. You can check it...
Welcome to MotoringFile 2.0
This is one of those stealth upgrades that most users probably won’t notice initially. However don’t let that fool you, this change is the largest we’ve made yet to the site. In...
Change Your MF RSS URLs!
In the next few hours we’ll be moving MotoringFile’s underlying platform to WordPress. If you use MotoringFile RSS, please note that this will break your feeds. To help make the transition a...
Sniff Petrol's Take on the JCW GP
Sniff Petrol, the Onion of the automotive world, unleashes it’s usual healthy dose of sarcasm on the new MINI JCW GP: No sooner has BMW released details of the long rumoured ‘hardcore’...
MyMini Hurricane Update
Hurricane Wilma hit our friends at MyMini pretty hard recently. So bad that they have yet to fully get power restored. So if you have orders that are waiting to ship or...