MINI JCW Team Set To Tackle Road America
Round 7 of the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge (CTSC) takes place this weekend at Road America. The MINI JCW Team will be looking to continue the momentum they’ve gained in recent weeks....
MINI Debuts Refreshed Family of Engines
BMW and MINI have taken the wraps off of a new family of petrol and diesel engines destined by the MINI range. What should we expect? According to BMW more power and...
Global MINI Sales: Best June & Best First Half of the Year Ever
Worldwide MINI Sales have surged this year capped with an incredible 38,282 cars delivered in June. A total of 174,898 MINIs were sold in the first half of the year, an increase...
MINI Wins Big at the Auto Express Awards
Official news: Auto Express magazine has awarded MINI two sought-after honours at the publication’s annual New Car Awards. MINI Hatch was awarded ‘Best Premium Small Car’ for the third consecutive year, retaining...
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...
Official Premier: UK Exclusive MINI Cooper JCW Challenge
For years MINI tuners have been applying the magic formula of a limited slip differential, lighter wheels and a coil-over suspension. And for years it’s transformed the MINI into a track machine...
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...
Car & Driver’s Long Term MINI Woes
Wow did Car & Driver have a lemon of a MINI as a long termer. That was our first thought in reading the one year (and 28,000 mile) wrap up. Dissecting the...
Chris Harris Shows Off Top Gear’s New Reasonably Priced Car – the MINI Cooper
Good news! Everyone’s favorite Youtube automotive star Chris Harris has been drafted by Top Gear to co-host a program called “Extra Gear”. Never mind that the idea of an extra year seems...
Global MINI Sales Continue Upward for April
While sales continue to slide in the US, global MINI sales continue to rise. Customer deliveries of MINI vehicles in April totalled 28,441 worldwide, an increase of 6.3% on the same month...