The Geography of Buying a MINI

With MINI dealers only located in the largest cities around the US there are many of us out there that are having to travel far and wide to find a dealer. This...

New Getrag Gearbox for the Cooper in 2005

This news comes from the industry publication Automotive Engineer Magazine: Midland Gear, the BMW-owned firm that supplies the R65 gearbox for the MINI ONE and MINI Cooper, is to be wound up...

The MINI Scores in Car & Driver Superfour Challenge

From Car & Driver.com: Since 2001, we've hosted an annual two-day competition for modified production cars. The event involved a day of driving on public streets and a day at the track....

Wired Magazine Compares Apples to MINIs

Wired Magazine has an interested article which discusses why some companies are just destined for success and hit products: To change an industry once is impressive. To do it as many times...

MINIUSA/MCO Trademark Update

Since this issue has gotten so much attention over the past week or so I thought I'd post this update from Mark at MINI Cooper Online: TechTV interview – we did this...

Repairing Your Own Foglight

Sean Bartnik has an interesting story on his site about doing self repair on the MINI's front foglights. The damage was unfortunately caused by a run-in with a cat that didn't fare...

The MINI vs the C230 Sports Coupe

I just got back from a Mercedes “C Spot Drive” event where invited participants get to check out the entire range of C Class offerings from the C230 Sports Coupe to the...