Dakar Day 6: MINI Mired in 4th with Sebastian Loeb Still Lead

MINI’s Al-Attiyah and Baumel are currently sitting in fourth place with Hirvonen maintaining seventh. Unfortunately bad continues to hamper the Dakar with weather conditions reducing the final leg distance. The one spot...

Dakar Begins this Weekend with MINI Ready to Defend Title

Consider this your friendly reminder – this Saturday MINI begins it’s defense of the Dakar title. Dakar is easily MINI’s most successful event in recent history with four straight wins – mostly...

Best Look Yet at the 2017 MINI Countryman Interior

It’s not totally clear but this is our best look yet inside the 2017 MINI Countryman. As expected the Countryman takes the basic layout and design of the Clubman and evolves the...

MF Review: The 2016 MINI Countryman

The Countryman is on its way out. Introduced in 2011 the R60 (internal MINI speak) was based on the R56 platform yet modified to the point of being almost entirely unique. The...

MINI ALL4 Racing Wins the Hungarian Baja

Official Release: Hungary, 16th August 2015 was the scene for an evening of dual celebration when MINI ALL4 Racing crew Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) and Mathieu Baumel (FRA) won the Hungarian Baja 2015;...

Hybrid JCW Countryman Spotted Testing?

The German BMW site BimmerToday.de spotted the upcoming F60 Countryman in Hybrid form this week undergoing road test evaluations. While that wouldn’t normally be something that would warrant a post here at...