Hatchback Success in the US

Bloomberg is running a story today that has some very interesting insight as to why there won't be a BMW 1 series in the US and why BMW considers it different than...

MINI Cabrio at the NYC Auto Show

Wish you could have made it to the official USA Cabrio introduction in New York this past week? Well here's a great write-up that may just make you feel like you were...

2005 US Spec Rear Foglight Insert

Get ready for some drama… what we see above appears to be the standard US-spec bumper for the 2005 MINI Cooper. Notice in place of the center mounted rear foglight US MINIs...

Miscellaneous News From Oxford

Here's some miscellaneous information that I heard while in Oxford recently. Some of it is certain and some of unsubstantiated at this point and some of it is very confirmed. The Anthracite...

Radar clocks Mini at Mach 3

This news comes from the BBC: A Belgium motorist was left stunned after authorities sent him a speeding ticket for travelling in his Mini at three times the speed of sound. The...

MINIUSA Wants You To Be Open

MINIUSA has launched the first part of their MINI Cabrio marketing effort with a small portion of the current MINIUSA site. You can check it out here. The site also makes reference...

JCW Introduces 225hp and 265hp Works kits

At this point JCW lists these kits are for “Motorsport” use only. Here's the copy that goes with the products: “All John Cooper Motorsport products are tried, tested and developed for motorsport...

New Two-Tone Leather Seats

In yet more news from this month's MINI International (yes you'll probably want to subscribe) MINI will begin offering dealer installed two-toned leather seats. It's not clear if this will be available...

The Official MINI Answer to CD storage

Also in this month's MINI International there's word of a new cd storage accessory. Here's the text: “The new MINI CD holder is also highly convenient and does away with awkward scrabbling...