Carrozeria Castagna's new MINI Offerings

Carrozeria Castagna, the maker of the MINIWagon, (profiled on MotoringFile last year) has several new MINI related offerings for 2005. For those that aren’t familiar with Castagna, they’re a bespoke Italian coach-builder...

Interested in Certified Pre-Owned MINIs?

All those who would consider themselves interested in certified pre-owned MINIs, your help is wanted. We’ve been approached by a company looking for people who would like to share why they’d be...

MINI Scores High in Reliability

Consumer Reports 2004 Reliability rankings are scheduled to be released today and we’re happy to report that the MINI has come in a respectable 9th out of 28 automakers. Specifically MINI had...

Men of Metal Transformer from MINI

It would seem my favorite childhood toy and my favorite current toy have just collided in pure 1985 retro bliss. Behold, the official Men of Metal Transformer from MINI. What originally started...

The MINI and Side Impact Testing

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety just released the side crash results for small cars. However, they excluded the Impreza, Civic, and MINI because they “will have new design features that are...

Inside MINI's Consumer Research

With all this talk of celebrity focus groups I thought it might be a good time to revisit a MotoringFile story from last spring in which we were lucky enough to get...