Interviews w/MINI Challenge Organizers
Official MINI Press Release: Interview with Ludwig Willisch, Director German Region of the BMW Group. The MINI CHALLENGE is entering its fourth season. So what has happened since 2004? Like the MINI...
MINI Challenge 2007
Official MINI Press Release: A full line-up on the grid and lots of top events: Entering the first race as part of a DTM event and highlighting two starts in Formula 1...
Worldwide MINI Sales up 14.1% in May
Official MINI Press Release: After the worldwide launch of the new model generation, the MINI is continuing its sustainable growth. In May 2007, the millionth MINI since the market launch was delivered....
MINI USA Prices the R56 JCW Kit
MF Exclusive: MotoringFile has learned that MINI USA will be offering the JCW “Stage 1” Kit (as it’s commonly referred to) for $2100 plus a suggested two hours of labor. The kit...
Autoweek Drives the 2007 Cooper S
This time they focus not on performance but on the character of the car and how it relates to what came before it. In fact this review will sound familiar to anyone...
MINI USA Offers Factory Installed HD Radio
Official MINI Press Release: MINI USA is now offering a factory-installed digital HD Radio receiver with FM multicasting capability as an option in the all-new 2007 MINI Cooper and Cooper S hardtops,...
Fifth Gear Test: 2007 MC vs Suzuki Swift Sport
Last Sunday’s Fifth Gear (not Top Gear mind you) track tested the Suzuki Swift Sport and a (very) base MINI Cooper. We won’t give away the finish but we will say that...
Buying a 2007 MCS: Production Completed
Part of the fun one has in building a MINI is following its progress from the MA’s computer to the factory floor and so on. With this MINI I had told myself...
Why the MINI Diesel Won’t Come to The US (Soon)
Recently fellow MF writer and diesel fan DB posted about the MINI Cooper D in relation to the US market. Specifically he asked the question; would you (in the US) buy one?...
MINI SUV Rendering Surfaces
Worldcarfans today is re-running much of the same information that has reported recently around the web (and at MF) on the upcoming MINI soft-roader/SUV. Unfortunately the title of their article is fairly...