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.
Five years ago we posted a review that helped define our opinion for years to come. It was our first long-term review of the R56. And we thought, what better place to...
It’s early but the car is packed and the top is down. It’s the day after the ALMS race at Road America, and we’re heading three hours back north to prepare for...
The JCW GP is months away from dealerships and we still don’t know pricing, final specs and what the options list will be. But the interior? We now can cross that off...
The JCW GP. A special car about to be even more special for one lucky raffle winner. MINI USA will be giving one GP away via a raffle (proceeds going to the...
According to sources inside MINI familiar with future product features, the US market will finally see an auto start/stop system for both manual and automatic transmissions. The first version of auto start/stop...
For ten years, we here at MotoringFile have been spec’ing cars on MINIUSA’s Configurator, some of which we’ve even bought with our own money. We’ve also spent seat time in every MINI...
It’s been one year and 13,000 miles since we first took the keys fob of the MINI Countryman Cooper S All4. This is a car more than a few MINI fans thought...
We always knew the Countryman would help MINI in regards to sales. But never has that been more the case for the US market this past month. The small crossover got within...
Late this past winter MINI rolled out the highly anticipated JCW Countryman. But perhaps more interesting to MINI fans was the introduction of Valvetronic to the JCW engine. This throttle-free load control...
As we predicted when GM bought into PSA and BMW partnered with Toyota something had to give with the joint venture between PSA Peugeot Citroen and BMW. While the plug has not...
