The Smoking Tire Tests the MINI Four Door JCW Carbon Edition
The Smoking Tire (aka Matt Farah) spent some time in a F55 JCW Carbon Edition recently and came away with some mixed feelings. The issues he seems to have with it are...
MINI USA Announces 2017 Pricing: More Tech, Less Features & a Slight Price Increase
MINI USA is making changes for 2017 in an effort to keep prices low while increasing standard levels of technology ahead of the 2018 refresh. The effect of this is that MINI...
Are MINI’s Special Editions Not Special Enough?
The special edition MINI Seven was unveiled yesterday and the Internet seems ablaze with opinions. Jalopnik is doing their click-bait thing and calling it a deperste hipster malarkey while others are wondering...
World Premier: The MINI Seven Special Edition
Today MINI has taken the wraps off of its first special edition car of the new generation. Available in both the F56 hatch and F55 four door, the MINI Seven combines exterior...
BMWs Receive Poor Headlight Ratings – What it Means for MINI
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (the IIHS) has completed its first ever rating of automotive headlights. While MINI was absent from this first test, two BMWs (representing several different lighting systems)...
Can MINI Grow Its Brand Without Losing Its Fans?
This is the question many of us have been asking for years now. But now with the UKL platform, that change might be upon us. We’ve had this debate on Whiteroofradio several...
MINIs Takes New York – the Ultimate Gallery
With the NYC auto show underway MINI took the time to get the full range together for a family photoshoot around the big apple. Pictures are ether F54 Clubman, F55 Four door,...
Worldwide MINI Sales Up 4.1% for the Year
MINI sales continued their upward trend worldwide with and increase 4.1% in the first two months of the year. This is sharp contrast to US sales which were down 23.7% for February....
What MINI Hybrid Models Do You Want?
If you’ve been reading MotorigFile you’ll know that MINI is preparing to launch the brands first hybrid. The Countryman plugin hybrid will debut in about a year’s time with a modified version...
The Most Underrated Option on MINIs is…
We’ve specced our fair share of MINIs over the years and followed MINIUSA’s tweaking of options and packages. The truth is that the most underrated options differs greatly on what you’re doing...