2007 Cooper S at the Nürburgring #3
The boys at Worldcarfans have some new-ish pictures of a 2007 Cooper S testing mule hitting the Nurburgring. Nothing too shocking is revealed that we haven’t seen previously, just a few good...
The 2007 MCS Hits the Highway
With the debut of the 2007 MINI just months away, BMW engineers are busy putting the finishing touches on the final production version of the car. And that means more photos and...
R56 Production Timeline (Update #1)
A few months ago we told you about MINI US production plans for both the current MINI and the next generation 2007 MINI. The general consensus we received from our sources was...
The Next Generation MINI Slims Down
In what appears to be an almost unheared of case of new model dieting, we’ve learned from a very reliable source that both the 2007 Cooper and Cooper S will weigh less...
The R56 Officially Debuted at Oxford Plant
It looks like the 2007 MINI may have been officially debuted at the Oxford Plant by BMW brass late last week. Here’s short account from a rather jaded source at the plant:...
Next Generation MINI Revealed (Updated)
It’s been almost a year since we posted “Next Generation MINI Revealed“. During that time it has gone on to be out most visited story ever. Originally posted in March of 2005,...
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...
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...
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...
The JCW GP & Traveller Spied Testing
MPH-Online has a few new MINI spy photos today. The first two are of the Traveller testing mule that has been spotted quite a bit over the last six months. The photos...