MINI Makes a Dramatic Leap in JD Power Appeal Rankings for 2017
MINI made a big jump this year in the JD Power Appeal Rankings moving up 30 points. It was enough to make the MINI Clubman and MINI hatch the winners in the...
BMW’s Strategic Partner Toyota to Release Solid State Batteries That Recharge in Minutes
The problem with most electric cars isn’t the range, it’s the time it takes to charge the batteries. Toyota, BMW’s technical partner in hybrid technology, is aiming to solve that problem with...
Electric MINI Confirmed as F56 Hatch – Will Be Built at Oxford Plant
News that many of us have been waiting for is here – an electric MINI is launching in 2019. MINI will turn it’s existing F56 hatch into a full electric car and...
MINI USA Introduces the Entry Level MINI Cooper Signature Line
MINI Cooper Signature Line is all about MINIUSA getting serious about offering value to customers. While we’d argue there’s already plenty of value to be found (especially in the F56, F55 and...
The Essential Options on the MINI JCW
For over 2,000 miles our long term MINI JCW Clubman test car has proved itself to be the most capable four door MINI we’ve ever tested. But if we were to have...
MINIUSA’s Configurator Updated with Countryman Hybrid and July Production Revisions
MINIUSA flipped the switch on the Countryman Hybrid configurator (aka the Cooper S E) this afternoon. Along with the new model the updated configurator also reflects the July production changes that we...
Opinion: We Want Another R53 Cooper S
163 hp, 2600 lbs and $22,000. Those approximate numbers were some of the key ingredients to one of the most successful cult cars of all time. The R53 Cooper S (2002 –...
It’s Official – CarPlay is Coming to MINI
Last year we broke the story that CarPlay was coming to the MINI Clubman and Countryman with July production. Today MINI is making it official along with a slew of other technology...
The MINI DCT is Coming to All MINI Models
Earlier today German BMW site Bimmertoday published a report that coraborated something we’ve been saying since 2016. MINI is getting a DCT (dual clutch) and it’s coming in the 2018 model year....
2018 MINI Refresh Looks to be Less Visual Than Expected
We’ve been reporting on the upcoming 2018 MINI refresh for well over a year but until now we’ve seen no visual evidence of it. Today that changes. The website Motor1 has a...