R56 Nurbugring Video Resurfaces at Edmunds
This is the exact same video posted on AutoExpress early this month has shown up on Edmund’s Inside the Line website. However Edmunds also offers some voiced over commentary giving a high-level...
Official Full JCW Cooper Engine Kit DIY
Since it’s officially Cooper Friday (and DIY Friday if you didn’t notice) here at MotoringFile I thought I’d pull out all the stops. Behold, the mother of all DIY projects, the full...
Official JCW Cooper Sound Kit DIY
Here’s one just for the Cooper owners out there. With the recent release of the John Cooper Sound Kit for the Cooper, we’ve had several people ask about the official installation PDF....
MF Podcast Review: 2006 Cooper S Automatic
As a follow-up to the recent MotoringFile VW GTI review (and previous MCSa review) I thought I’d offer up my thoughts on the automatic Cooper S while behind the wheel. In some...
JCW Shift Indicator Install PDF
Since we had several requests for the official install PDF for the newly available JCW Shift Indicator we figured it was finally time to produce. So here it is, the official install...
New JCW GP Photos and Debut Info
The MINI Cooper S JCW GP edition will be publicly debuting in final production trim at the Geneva Autoshow in early march. And with that date fast approaching, MINI.com has a few...
The New MINI Keeps the Clamshell Hood
Sometimes a polite “I told you so” is in order. It would seem that recent photos published in AutoExpress have verified something we mentioned last March on MotoringFile; MINI will indeed be...
MotoringFile Review: The JCW Cold Air Intake
One of the most popular upgrades for MINI’s has historically been the cold air intake. This is especially true for the Cooper S as the location of the air intake lends itself...
JCW MCSa Kit Finally Coming to the US?
It’s not dead yet. We’ve just learned that BMW and JCW are still working to get the MCSa JCW kit to pass US emissions. We were originally told this late last summer...
New R56 Cooper Spyshots Surface
Worldcarfans.com has a couple of new spyshots of the upcoming R56 MINI Cooper. MF readers will notice the uncanny resmeblence to the photos we posted a few weeks back. We also get...