2005

White Roof Radio Podcast #19

We have more Phil Wicks for you this week. Todd and I are back with the 2nd half of our interview. This week we touch mostly on Phil’s motorsport heritage. 50 years...

MINI United – First Update

We left Frankfurt on Thursday night and drove the first strech to a small village near Zürich in Switzerland. On the next morning we woke up with beautiful sunshine. A perfect day...

MINI Dragcar Debuts at the Track (w/video)

First here’s the official press release from MINI USA: The MINI USA/FTR made its drag strip debut at the NHRA Sport Compact World Finals at the Pomona Raceway in Pomona, California this...

The Nürburgring Nordschleife

I live in the land of the Autobahn. There is a lot you can do here in Germany to enjoy the performance of a MINI Cooper S. But what’s the point of...

MINI United – A Detailed Preview

MINI United: First International Annual Meeting of the Global MINI Fan Community. MINI United is celebrating its premiere ‘ and many fans of the brand are coming: Several thousand participants from three...

John Cooper Works GP Tuning Kit Specs

We’ll have the full press release and official photos soon… but to tide you over here are the preliminary numbers that have been released by MINI Press: 218 BHP (around 215 HP)...

The 2005 MINI Concept Cars

MINI.com has a fantastic feature on both the 2005 MINI Concepts that have recently debuted. The site features both the Concept Frankfurt and Concept Tokyo as well as the various prototype components...

The Rumored Lightweight MCS: Part 7

Rumored no more. MINI2 is now confirming what many of us had assumed all along. The images posted on the web this weekend are indeed early sketches of the upcoming MINI Cooper...

Clicking Web-Spokes

Dan over at dcmini.blogspot.com has a great write-up concering the growing problem with the ever popular web-spoke wheels. Here’s an excerpt: The Problem: Sometime in the middle of June I noticed a...