Official News

COLOUR ONE for MINI by Scholten & Baijings

During the Salone del Mobile 2012, MINI presents a probing, thought-provoking and inspiring concept created by the Dutch design duo. [Official Release] On the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2012, MINI...

Feature

The Rolls Royce MINI Goes On Sale at Harrods

[Official Release] The MINI Inspired by Goodwood is the most ambitious and luxurious special edition model the brand has ever launched. To celebrate delivery of the first customer cars, a single example...

Podcast

White Roof Radio #422

Happy birthday shout-outs, Mars in retrograde and we provide some history behind The Shuttle Cast. We also run through news of the week from Motoringfile and a few Ask Chad questions. Woofcast...

Faults & Fixes

MINI Shortens Oil Change Interval

A regular topic on <a href="http://www.whiteroofradio.com">White Roof Radio</a> is our opinion that the factory-specified 1 year/15,000 mile oil service intervals on the R56 MINIs are <em>far</em> too long. WRR co-host and MF contributor, Todd Pearson, snapped this photo of a MINI Monroney sticker in Kansas City showing a new oil change interval of 1 year/10,000 miles. Given the number of R56s that have had oil-related troubles, a more sensible interval seemed in order. It would appear that MINI has come to the same conclusion. However, we don't yet have any information as to exactly why MINI has dropped the interval back to 1 year/10,000 miles, which was the original service interval on the R50/R53.

JCW GP

An Ode to the JCW GP

The MINI JCW was a kit until 2006. Even then it was a factory option that was engineered in a garage. Then came the GP. Taking the spirit of the garage and...