Last week the first letters from MINI USA went out to Cooper S owners extending the warranty on their turbos for 10 years or 120,000 miles. It’s both a generous move by MINI USA and one that was sorely needed. But there’s a lot of conflicting information and plenty of confusion for owners or even would be owners of these MINIs. So we have created the MotoringFile MINI Cooper S Turbo FAQ to bring together all the information in one place to give you a place get your questions answered and some insight into what to worry about and what to not.
MINIUSA is extending the warranty on specific Cooper S models directly relating to the turbocharger of their N18 engines. The warranty is being pushed to healthy 10 years or 120,000 miles for...
MINI reliability is a phrase that many former owners would scoff at. Yet MINIs have become decidedly more reliable and better built with the F generation of cars launched in late 2014....
It’s recently come to light that an organization that both BMW and Mercedes fund led diesel research on monkeys. The effort was intended to influence the public perception of diesel fumes being...
Cheerios in the Cupholder The Ask Chad, kind of, show. Since Hank is in need of a battery, Chad helps us out with all of the information you could need about replacing...
MINI USA sales are continuing their downward trend for the first month of 2018. In total MINI USA reported 2,937 vehicles sold, a decrease of 5.6 percent from the 3,110 sold in...
BMW is betting bit that drive sharing will be a big part of the future automotive market. The urbanization of populations worldwide and the changing attitudes towards car ownership have created a...
After a successful Roar and excellent qualifying session, the MINI JCW Team was confident that they had a chance of repeating last season’s historic victory at Daytona International Speedway. Nate Norenberg was...
As anticipated, MINIUSA won’t be bringing the highly anticipated DCT transmissions to the US this year. But this news doesn’t come from secret sources. This comes via Automotive News and MINIUSA VP...
The next generation MINI due in the years ahead could get its own MINI-specific platform. A platform that isn’t bound by BMW design requirements and thus (theoretically) better suited for smaller MINIs....
