MotoringFile was born out of a love for all things MINI. Technically started in January 2003 with our first post announcing that MINI had just won car of the year. But in reality it started way before. I grew up with a love for all things automotive. That fascination was particularly influenced by my dad’s BMW 2002tii and my love for all things British.
Peter Egan – we couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Earlier today I was behind the wheel of a well cared for and well specced 2006 R53 Cooper S. I was blown...
Frank Stephenson is not only a critical part of MINI history but has long been a friend of MotoringFile. So it was with great pleasure when we saw him move into the...
Official Release: A large investment programme to develop the BMW Hams Hall engine plant near Birmingham is complete. The production of new three and four-cylinder engines is already being ramped up on...
The MINI JCW Team’s first year in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, a year that saw many long hours of hard work and a little frustration, came to a glorious conclusion at...
Walking into the depths of BMW’s secretive training center is a surreal experience. Cameras are bagged and iPhones pocketed. And yet there are things that are seen that are asked to be...
BMW/MINI board member Peter Schwarzenbauer took time out of the Clubman’s European launch to chat about the car and the evolution of the MINI brand. For those of you who have been...
Over the past decade MotoringFile has grown along with the MINI brand tremendously. But more readers and more sales shouldn’t be the metric we live our lives by. Recently my father was...
The Countryman is on its way out. Introduced in 2011 the R60 (internal MINI speak) was based on the R56 platform yet modified to the point of being almost entirely unique. The...
The MINI Clubman is not just all new but entirely re-imagined from its the previous generation. The 2016 Clubman is based on the UKL2 platform that offers not just dramatically more space...
Race weekends can usually be classified as either ‘good’, when your cars run fine for qualifying and racing, and finish well, or ‘bad’ when everything seems to be a constant struggle and...
