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.
As we’ve reported over the past year, BMW is investing over $200 million dollars to expand the MINI Plant in Oxford for 2006. While this will give MINI further flexibility and scalability,...
With all the hype and build up of the rumored “lightweight” Cooper S, there was probably little MINI could do to actually impress everyone. With numbers like 230bhp and 15% weight reduction...
This week we focus on the newly released John Cooper Works GP Kit that everyone loves to talk about. Lots opinions and some of them may surprise you. You can check it...
This is one of those stealth upgrades that most users probably won’t notice initially. However don’t let that fool you, this change is the largest we’ve made yet to the site. In...
In the next few hours we’ll be moving MotoringFile’s underlying platform to WordPress. If you use MotoringFile RSS, please note that this will break your feeds. To help make the transition a...
Sniff Petrol, the Onion of the automotive world, unleashes it’s usual healthy dose of sarcasm on the new MINI JCW GP: No sooner has BMW released details of the long rumoured ‘hardcore’...
Hurricane Wilma hit our friends at MyMini pretty hard recently. So bad that they have yet to fully get power restored. So if you have orders that are waiting to ship or...
Now that the JCW GP Works Kit is out, everyone seems to be a critic. So here’s the challenge we’re giving to MotoringFile readers. How would you change the JCW GP? What...
The new US based MINI magazine launches today and we’ve got an exclusive Q&A with its co-founders Barry Brazier and Gary Anderson: Q: What made you decide to start a North American...
Based on info we’d received over the pasts few months we had expected the JCW GP to eventually make it to the North American market. I’m now happy to report that this...
