Exclusive: The Surprising Technical Details of the J01 2025 MINI Cooper EV
It’s been months since the J01 MINI Cooper EV was revealed and yet we still don’t have a complete list of technical details. Until today. And there are more than a few...
Opinion: JCW Appearance Packages Confuse Buyers and Hurt the Brand
MINI won’t release an all electric JCW until 2025. Yet much of the automotive press is reporting that it just did. What happened? Last week MINI officially debuted the J01 MINI Cooper...
First Look at the All Electric MINI Cooper JCW
With MINI’s strategy to go all electric 2030, fans have been wondering what that will mean for the performance oriented JCW brand. Today we’re getting our first official view at what they...
An Inside Look at How MINI Coopers Are Made at it’s Oxford Plant
The MINI Oxford Plant is the spiritual home of the brand since new MNI production started in 2001. We’ve visited the plan previously in 2004 and found it full of new energy...
Exclusive: MINI Is Killing Run-flat Tires in All Future Models
The 20 year experiment of run-flats is over for MINI. After years of customer complaints about ride quality, performance impacted by weight and high replacement costs, MINI has decided to eliminates run-flats...
Europe vs the US – The New MINI Countryman and its Horsepower Differences Will Surprise You
If you’ve been following our coverage on the new (U25) MINI Countryman internal combustion models you’ll notice an unusual discrepancy. The US spec versions of the Countryman S and Countryman JCW have...
Warning – Production of the 3rd Generation MINI Cooper (and Manuals) is Ending
The 3rd Generation MINI Cooper (known as the F56) is ending production and with it the manual transmission. Replacing it will be the F66, an almost entirely new MINI Cooper that will...
Review: The CravenSpeed Gemini Phone Mount
The world is full of cheap plastic phone mounts that squeeze into a vent or stick on a dash. But one has earned a reputation as the opposite of that. The CravenSpeed...
Review: MINI OS9 CarPlay Integration
When we first saw spy photos of radical MINI’s circular OLED display we quietly wondered if the brand was moving away from CarPlay and Android Auto like General Motors has. Turns it...
Video: MINI OS9 Demo With CarPlay and Experience Modes
MINI OS9 and its integration of CarPlay and Experience Modes is unlike anything we’ve see from MINI or an other automaker. We recently had a chance to go hands-on with the new...