MINI Takes Three Awards from Kelly Blue Book
MINI took home three honors in Kelley Blue Book’s “2006 Best Resale Value Awards”. MINI was named “Best Brand”, tying with the BMW brand, its sibling in the BMW Group. The MINI...
MINI Dealers and Lost Sales
Even with the MINI plant in Oxford churning out cars every day of the week, demand is still quite high – especially in the US. In fact many parts of the country...
GoMINI Ends Publication
We just received word that the UK based MINI magazine, GoMINI will be ending publication. Reportedly Issue 24 will be the last to hit bookstores and newsstands. We’ll have more on MINI...
Integrated Aftermarket Bluetooth: Part 2
In part 1 of this series I focused mainly on the hard wired cradle-type (i.e. non-Bluetooth) handsfree phone kits that are currently available from MikeyTheMini of NewMiniStuff.com (NMS). Since then, I’ve switched...
MINI USA Sales Up 25% for September
From MINI USA PR: MINI USA continued to experience strong demand. The division reported year-to-date sales of 32,010 cars, up 25 percent compared to 25,670 sold in first three quarters of 2004....
Cnet Takes a Look at the MINI Concept
Ah yes Cnet, the place to go when you’re researching a printer, finding a low price on a router, and when you want to see some video of the MINI Concept. As...
White Roof Radio Podcast #15
The key word this week: quality! I’ve got a new mic (thanks Todd) and the Podcast is definitely better for it. This week we tackle reader mail and somehow end up talking...
JCW Factory Production Slips to November
You can put this in the confirmed rumor category: all 2006 MINIs with the factory JCW package will be pushed back to November production. We’ll hopefully have more info soon.
Five Years Ago This Week…
(This is a repost from a year ago with only the dates changed) Hard to believe but the new MINI made it’s US debut five years ago this past week in New...
The MINI Concept: What We Will See in 2007
Here’s a question that we’ve seen a lot of. What will actually make it to the next generation MINI (the R56) from what we’ve seen in the recent MINI Frankfurt Concept? While...