Cooper Featured Marque at Monterey Historics

The legendary Cooper Car Company is the featured marque at the 33rd Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races, August 18-20, 2006. The Cooper Car Company, perhaps best well known by Mini enthusiasts, was...

2007 MINI US Market Availability

Last week we looked at the production timeline for the entire family of next generation MINIs. This week, let’s deal with the simple question we’ve been seeing a lot lately; “when can...

The R56 Soundtrack

The loss of the supercharger on the Cooper S means a serious change to the soundtrack we’ve all grown accustom to. However the new Cooper S has a sound all its own...

The 2007 MINI: In Detail

Evolution of an Original. The new MINI. Here comes the first generation change since the start of a new era: The new MINI is warming up to continue the outstanding success of...

MINI UK Launches R56 Preview Site

Looking for a way to blow-off about 20 minutes? MINI UK has a 2007 MINI preview site that gives us a sneak peak at Lightning Blue, a few new wheel options (alng...

2007 MINI Drops Weight

We don’t have the English version of the official R56 specifications yet but with the help of Google translation services we were able to figure out this little nugget of information from...

MINI.com Launches 2007 Section

MINI.com has details on the new 2007 Cooper and Cooper S. The site gives us our first look at the gorgous piano black/creme white interior combination among other niceties. Just uh, watch...

2007 Cooper and Cooper S Officially Revealed

The day many of us have waited for is here. The press embargo wasn’t scheduled to be lifted for a few hours but several online publications have already broken it so we’re...

2007 MINI In Motion

Beyond the press release and the images, MINI has also released four minute video of both the Cooper and Cooper S doing their thing on some curvy roads. Since our servers shudder...

White Roof Radio #87

Todd finally found the Nano button while recording. Give it a go! Should sound much louder, even with the volume leveling on. We do a full recap of Todd’s GP adventures and...