MINI JCW Receives “Sport Auto Award 2015”
**Official Release:** The MINI John Cooper Works continues its series of successes at the annual “Sport Auto” magazine readers’ choice and takes first place in the importer small car category. Thanks to...
Race Report: MINI JCW Series Finale at Road Atlanta
The MINI JCW Team’s first year in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, a year that saw many long hours of hard work and a little frustration, came to a glorious conclusion at...
Did MINI’s Side Impact Recall Not Happen Fast Enough?
The Detroit News believes that may be the case. An NHTSA spokesperson is quoted as saying: >”NHTSA is concerned that BMW was aware or should have been aware of the non-compliance with...
The Science of Speed
Pushing a car – especially a MINI – to its limits on a track is thrilling, exhilarating, and many more other adjectives. To understand what is behind all these feelings, the University...
Rumor: MINI Testing Carbon Fiber Components
BMW is the world’s leading automotive manufacturer of carbon fiber with its BMWi brand. We’ve reported on the strategy, the technology and the models created with it. But the brand’s plans with...
Dyno Results: F56 with JCW Tuning Kit
We’ve always known BMW and MINI to be rather conservative in listing power and torque outputs. Now it would appear we have yet another example of this. Pedro of the site MotoringFun...
MF Garage: 10,000 Miles in the 2015 MINI Cooper S
It’s been six months and 10,000 miles since we took delivery of our British Racing Green 2015 MINI Cooper S. While we ended up losing more than a few options within the...
MINI’s Launch Control Secrets Decoded
We’ve been a little down on the new automatic gearbox in the JCW (and Cooper S) recently. While it’s a huge improvement over the previous automatics in MINIs, it delivers less driver...
MINI JCW TEAM VIR Preview
The MINI John Cooper Works Team will head to scenic southern Virginia this coming weekend for the eighth round of the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge (CTSCC) at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) hoping...
Woofcast #562: When Does the Trash Talking Start?
Gabe joins us tonight to talk about news from [MotoringFile](https://www.motoringfile.com) and his time with the new JCW. Full review can be found at [iamnotwearingpants.com](http://iamnotwearingpants.com). Besides all of that, we also talk about...