Exclusive: MINI JCW GP Pricing Estimates
While we haven’t learned the exact GP pricing, we have sources who tell us what we believe to be a very close estimate. That estimate comes from a very basic formula and...
MotoringFile at AMVIV 2012
When I stepped off the plane in Las Vegas, my first surprise was the five-deep bank of slot and video poker machines ringing and dinging their happy songs into the airport terminal....
Exclusive: BMW Cancels MINI JCW GP Coupe
According to sources on both sides of the Atlantic, MINI has cancelled the highly anticipated JCW GP Coupe. Throughout the spring we had seen GP Coupe in prototype form roaming the streets...
MF Exclusive: Countryman to Receive Early Interior Refresh for 2013
The MINI Countryman is just two years into it’s seven year cycle and selling briskly. So why is MINI updating the interior? In a word, the Paceman. MINI moved up a couple...
BMW Announces SDK Kit for 3rd Party Apps & Future Android Support – MINI to Follow?
It’s been two years since MINI and BMW released the first automotive app-based integration of the iPhone. The system allows apps on the iPhone to be fully integrated into the car’s display...
Rumor: Next Generation MINI to Feature Both Three & Four Cylinder Engines
The secret has been out for years now that MINI and BMW will be introducing a new family if 1.5L three cylinder engines destined for small front wheel drive cars. But would...
BMW Invests £250M in UK Manufacturing
BMW Group has today announced a further £250m investment in its UK manufacturing operations by the end of 2015 at its manufacturing plant in Oxford, steel body pressings operation at Swindon and...
Exclusive: MINI Paceman to Be a Two Door
We were led astray and we were wrong. Back in the glory days of early 2012 we proudly proclaimed that the MINI Paceman would include two club doors a la the Clubman....
MTTS 2012: Day 3 and 4
Day 3 starts early for MTTS! 6:00 am at Charlotte Motor Speedway for a quick breakfast, a sight of the new B-Spec MINIs (that can be built for about $US6,000 plus tires,...
Worldwide MINI Sales up 7% for 2012
Official Release: Worldwide sales for MINI climbed 3.9% to 32,337 vehicles in the month under review (prev. yr 31,112). Year-to-date, MINI sales are up +7.0% to 151,875 units compared to 141,915 in...