Pulley Party Day at the MotoringFile Garage

Yes the rumors are true; the MotoringFile garage is hosting one of Randy Webb’s last ever Pulley parties today. From 9am to 11pm Randy will be in the garage installing everything from...

MF Review: MINIs on the Dragon 2006

The Road. The Tail of the Dragon is probably the closest thing in spirit to a place like the Nurburgring that we have in North America. While there are countless great roads...

Low Numbers for the GP Monterey Delivery

MotoringFile has learned that, as of last week, only eight soon to be GP owners have signed up for MINI USA’s Monterey Delivery Program. While this has probably changed a bit since...

True Spirit of Motoring

Since I’m still writing my Dragon review, I thought this might fill the void a bit. This Dragon experience was sent in by long time MotoringFile reader Deb Sutliff (aka Nekowoman). >There...

Road & Track Discovers the Dragon

R&T has a timely article in this month’s issue about everyones favorite 11-mile stretch of road. Here’s an excerpt: >Driving the Dragon requires full-time concentration. Hands at 3 and 9 o’clock are...

Back from the Dragon

We’re back and we’ve got photos. Everything from a few action shots to even some dragon induced carnage. I’ll be writing a brief summary in the next few days but first, some...

MINI Ad Agency Drive

On Sunday, MINIUSA’s new ad agency Butler, Shine, Stern, and Partners (BSSP) welcomed roughly 80 Northern California MINI owners to their Sausalito headquarters. The days events included a group drive organized in...

Photos From the Dragon

Greetings from the Travel Lodge somewhere in Kentucky. The Chicago Dragon group (it’s more of a coalition really) has made it halfway. I’ll be posting photos from the road to the MotoringFile...

Dragon Pre-Registration Closed

And the total number of those registered for this year’s largest MINI event in North America….(drum roll please)… 612. Of course there will be dozens more there that haven’t registered so the...

The German MINI2 Deutschlandrundfahrt

From May 19th to June 2nd German MINI enthusiasts from the German MINI² Club will do a round trip throughout Germany: The MINI² Deutschlandrundfahrt The trip is covering over 3,500 km (2,175...