MINI Using Service as Selling Point

From MSNBC: >Some aspects of Mini’s dealership experience are luxury grade, despite the affordable price of the car. Stylish waiting rooms often have big-screen TVs with xBox gaming consoles, and loaners are...

A MINI What?

This from GermanCarScene.com. >Benedikt Schiermeyer carried out the work for a customer, and even though it’s not what we’d do to a Cooper S, we have to admire his skills. Personally, I’ve...

Living the Brand

From latest edition of Autoweek: >When the Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners advertising agency competed for the Mini USA account in 2005, its executives visited Mini dealerships. They talked with Mini owners...

50 Years of the Mini

While it technically may be a bit early, here is a great story about the anniversary of the conceptual birth of the Mini. It includes 50 things that you may or may...

BusinessWeek on Hammer & Coop

The online edition of BusinessWeek has a piece about MINI’s new advertising campaign Hammer & Coop.  Here’s an excerpt: Webisodic marketing is part of a crucial trend toward advertisers creating engaging content rather...

Hammer & Coop – Behind the Scenes

Broadcast Newsroom has an article up about the mixing of the sound for Hammer & Coop, including some information on how the voice of Coop was done.  Here’s an excerpt: The audio tracks...

Consumer Reports Ranking: MINI Down

Coming up in the April issue of Consumer Reports is their Automobile guide for 2007, which includes reliability rankings for the 2006/2007 model year. As Usual, Japanese brands dominate with Honda and...

Newsweek Road Tests the R56

You will actually be able to check this out in the March 05 issue. >When the Mini Cooper folks took me and a few other automotive journalists to a racetrack to test...

A New Dealer in the Midwest

Next week, the fine state of Nebraska finally gets their very own MINI Cooper dealer! >Pop-art colors stand out against matte-black at the new Markel Mini Cooper dealership. The colors correspond to...