Electric MINI Production Update
The electric Minis are in production as we speak and have been for the previous 6 or 7 weeks. They are assembled as pretty much normal cars, then shipped out to Munich...
2009 MINI Convertible to Get Exclusive Color
When the R57 goes on sale next spring it will receive an exclusive color much like the launch of the R52 convertibles in the latter half of 2004. Like the R52 the...
The MINI D in the US, Part II
Bosch sure is being generous with it’s handing out of the test drives on the MINI Cooper D they have in the US for testing. This time, NextAutos gets a shot. >We...
BMW/MINI Start Electric Vehicle Testing
Official BMW Press Release: Over the next months, the BMW Group will be carrying out various series of tests on electrically powered vehicles to determine the alternative drive of the future. Several...
Electric MINIs coming to the States?
According to Autoweek, BMW plans to build a few electric MINIs and send them to the states to help meet the need for zero-emissions vehicles sold in California. >BMW plans to export...
$100 for a Tank of Gas
A great story recently posted at the paper of record about how the price of fuel is affecting those with 25 gallon (and larger) fuel tanks. >By late spring, owners of pickups...
Used Cars Coming Back
With more and more people trying to get into more fuel efficient cars, resale values of used cars is going up. From Forbes.com. >It’s not just used hybrids seeing a price increase,...
A MINI Cooper D in the USA
Not for sale in the United States, Bosch has one here as part of it’s in-house Euro Diesel fleet. And MPGoMatic got to drive one in Las Vegas Nevada. >While a 0-62...
More Bad News for the SUV
I’m sure you have heard this already. >G.M.’s chairman and chief executive, Rick Wagoner, said G.M. will cease production at four North American assembly plants that make S.U.V.’s and pickups by 2010....
White Roof Radio #250
We start off with some rambling, some MTTS stuff and a reminder that we do accept, quite gladly in fact, beverages of any type. Todd does go through the hypermiling techniques that...