MF Garage: 10,000 Miles of the Countryman
When the Countryman was first announced, pretty much everyone on MF hoped the earth would crack open and swallow it whole the moment it arrived. A MINI “SUV” needed to be sent...
MotoringFile’s Roadster: Design & Spec Chosen
Last week we asked you to help us design and spec MotoringFile’s new MINI Roadster. And after 12 hours and over a thousand votes were cast and counted we have a definitive...
Help Design MotoringFile’s MINI Roadster
(This poll is now closed. Look for more info soon). You may have noticed in our recent review of the MINI Roadster that we were completely smitten. For the first time ever...
MF Garage: MINI Countryman All4 in the Snow
As recently discussed over at our sister site BimmerFile, there are few guilty pleasures that rival driving a winter-tire equipped rear wheel drive car in snow. It’s the definition of easy hooning...
MotoringFile Review: 2012 MINI Cooper S Roadster
Kindchenschema. It’s a German word, but the idea is universal. Humans are intrinsically attracted to small things with large features — like a puppy or a baby. These things disarm us and...
MF Garage: Back Behind the Wheel of My R53
Recently my wife and I left the Twin Cities for the fine city of Chicago. Involved in that move was packing up my R53 and my wife’s Honda CRV with all the...
MotoringFile Review: 2012 MINI Cooper S
Sometimes it’s just nice to be back where you feel most comfortable. Those were my thoughts as I slipped begin the wheel of a lightly spec’d 2012 MINI Cooper S hatch. No...
MF First Drive: JCW Countryman All4
The cars of MINI’s John Cooper Works sub-brand are often described as halo models. They are intended to be each MINI in its purest, most sporting form. While perhaps not as aggressively...
MF Vault: JCW GP Road Trip
First we gave you another look at our full review of the JCW GP. Then we took you back to our last drive in the R53 JCW. Today, for MF’s month long...
MF Vault: 2006 JCW Review
Last week we kicked off JCW month with a look back at the JCW GP five years later. This week we take a look at the other JCW of the time, the...