MF Podcast Review: 2006 Cooper S Automatic
As a follow-up to the recent MotoringFile VW GTI review (and previous MCSa review) I thought I’d offer up my thoughts on the automatic Cooper S while behind the wheel. In some...
MINI Video Friday
Since it’s Friday we thought it would be as good a time as any to post a few links that have made their way to the MotoringFile inbox lately. Now it wouldn’t...
Clarkson on the MCSc
Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame reviews the MCS Convertible in The Sunday Times (UK). Here is a brief excerpt: Beneath the veneer of cool-this and brushed-aluminium-that the hard-top Mini has a...
Best Roads in the World (MotoringFile Edition)
Okay MotoringFile readers, you’ve asked for it and now you’ve got it. Let’s hear all about that sacred strip of pavement that you call your favorite. Where they are, when to drive...
Chinese Negotiating to Buy The Tritec Factory
A Chinese company is currently trying to buy the Brazilian factory where BMW produces engines for the MINI according to today’s New York Times. For those that may not be aware, the...
MINI’s Brand Ranking Falls
According to the fifth annual Interbrand Reader’s Choice Awards, MINI has dropped from the No.6 global brand in 2004 to No. 22 this past year. Interestingly MINI does not even make the...
MINI Challenge & Phil Wicks Join Forces
Phil Wicks of the North American MINI Cooper Championship series are scheduled to announce an affliation with UK based MINI Challenge (formerly the John Cooper Challenge) to organize and direct a MINI...
White Roof Radio Podcast #35
In our second podcast for the week we tackle the questsion: How will the next MINI change the MINI community? We also give some V-day shoutouts discuss why Todd and I are...
Road & Track MINI Owner Survey
Good reading for both the newbies and the oldsters among us. Here’s an excerpt: >Road & Track has been conducting owner surveys for some three decades now, on all manner of cars...
More MINI Competition – The Dodge Hornet
It looks like the MINI’s success has not gone unnoticed at the Chrysler Group. Chrysler’s Dodge division will debut the Dodge Hornet concept car in Geneva and early word is that it...