MF Garage: Our Roadster’s First Spring Road-trip
With a quickly packed bag in the trunk and the Valentine 1 mounted on the windshield, the MINI Roadster and its first spring road trip gets underway just as the sun begins...
MotoringFile/WRR Audio Interview: MINI USA Product Manager Pat McKenna
MINI Product Manager Pat McKenna took some time out of his busy schedule to chat with us about a couple of the more debated topics on MF recently. First up the GP....
Is MINI About to Shrink its Model Lineup? (Hint – Don’t Bet on it)
Since the debut of the new MINI more than ten years ago, the line-up has grown from one to seven distinct models. As we look toward the next generation MINI hatch, the...
Opinion: An Early Take on the 2014 F56 MINI Interior
I’ve been reading a lot of criticism of the new MINI interior. These critiques range from smart, to blunt with no real rationale. So I wanted to weigh in not as MotoringFile,...
New MINI App “Connect Us” Creates MINI Centric Dating Service
April 1st 2013, Munich. Official Release: Now for something a little more romantic. The latest version of the MINI Connected App is playing cupid to make MINI fans’ dreams of finding the...
The 2014 F56 MINI: Here’s the Interior
We’ve seen glimpses of the interior before but none quite like this. Snapped by a Reddit user what we see above is a full view of the base F56 interior. When we...
JCW GP Rear Diffuser Secretly Available as Accessory
When MINI released the first GP any part associated with it could only be bought if you had an actual GP VIN. It was assumed this would be the case with new...
EVO Track Test: The MINI GP Against the Best Hot Hatches
EVO Magazine – perhaps our favorite car mag – not only got its hands on a JCW GP but managed to get it to a track and pit it against the best...
MF Garage: The JCW Roadster Tackles Winter
When we took possession of our long term JCW Roadster we told you we wanted to find out if the soft-top could indeed be an everyday, all year car. In the sun...
A Look Back at the Three Generation of the MINI Cooper & Cooper S
As MINI gears up to release the entirely new MINI Cooper and Cooper S in early autumn it’s time for a look back and where the model has come from. The idea,...