John Cooper Works Officially Rebranded

Here’s the official press release detailing the re-branding efforts of John Cooper Works we reported yesterday. Official MINI Press Release: Premium quality, racing know-how and MINI feeling are now even more closely...

Lifan 3 Series: The Fake MINI

Car Scoop found this. Not only did they copy the name from BMW (3 Series), but check out the overall looks of the car. >Here we go again; the list with Chinese...

BMW Going Green?

We mentioned this back in November, but it would appear that BMW is looking to start another brand to help it’s CAFE standards. Winding Road has a great article to this point....

The New JCW Logo is Here

As we reported last year, part of BMW’s purchase and re-branding of John Cooper Works would include a redesigned JCW logo. Today, we can finally show that to you. As you can...

White Roof Radio #216

db does his best Steve Jobs, Gabe learns about “off the hook” and Todd times us on Apple talk. Wow, all that in the first 5 minutes too. But you’ll want to...

The 12 Most Important Cars

Time magazine has recently published a great article on the greatest, most important cars of the last 100 years. Along with the ’55 Chevy, Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic and VW Beetle lies...

BMW Marketing Takes Cues from MINI

With BMW preparing for the 1 Series launch in the US late March, they’re turning to MINI for marketing ideas. >BMW IS REACHING INTO SIBLING Mini’s bag of marketing tricks for this...

White Roof Radio #215

Starting with a bit of confusion. No, you didn’t hear an edit. Honest, we didn’t spend 20 minutes talking about warranty stuff and cut it out of tonights show. We really didn’t....

Car Resale Values Explained

Have you ever wondered how Kelly Blue Book and Edmunds determines the resale value of a car? >According to Jesse Toprak, senior analyst for Edmunds, in Santa Monica, Calif., there are four...