The F65 MINI Cooper Five-Door Is Quietly Becoming Major Seller
When the F65 MINI Cooper five-door first launched, it sat in a bit of an odd space. Purists dismissed it as a compromise, while others weren’t sure if the added practicality really...
EU is Rethinking its EV Mandate – What It Means for The MINI Cooper’s Future
The EU has announced it will bring forward its review of the 2035 zero-emission vehicle target to the end of this year, two years earlier than planned. On the surface this is...
The Magic of MINI’s Adaptive LED Headlights & why you can’t get them in the US
MINI’s newest generation of cars, launched in 2024, is packed with tech designed to make driving safer and smarter. One of the most transformative features is also one of the easiest to...
Could MINI Bring the Dues Ex Machina Concepts to Showrooms?
Concept cars have always been part theater, part crystal ball. For decades BMW and MINI have used them to test radical ideas, hint at future direction, and just as importantly, inject a...
Video: MINI Cooper Safety – How the Smallest MINI Earned Five Stars
The latest Euro NCAP results are in, and both the new MINI Cooper F66 (combustion) and J01 Cooper E (EV) have achieved the coveted five-star safety rating. So how is MINI’s smallest...
MINI Cooper and Aceman Earn Top Euro NCAP Safety Ratings
The latest Euro NCAP results are in: both the new MINI Cooper 3-door (F66) and the MINI Aceman (J05) have earned five-star ratings. That headline alone is easy to gloss over, but it carries more weight...
The All-New BMW iX3: A Glimpse Into MINI’s Rear-Wheel-Drive Future
BMW has been teasing the Neue Klasse for years. On MotoringFile, we’ve covered how it represents a full reboot for BMW Group, built from the ground up for electrification, digitalization, and sustainability....
How Deus Ex Machina and MINI Reimagined the Mini Cooper
MINI x Dues Ex Machina have succeeded in creating the most talked about MINI concepts in over a decade. But how did they come together? We have an inside look at the...
Design Review: The Skeg & Machina – The MINI Concepts We’ve Been Waiting For
The Deus Ex Machina one-offs are more than just another pair of design exercises. They’re MINI staging a dialogue about the future of John Cooper Works, two cars built from the same...
Video Walk-Through – The MINI X Deus Ex Machina JCW Concepts
MINI and Deus Ex Machina have created two one-off JCWs that couldn’t be more different yet are just as exciting. In this video we take a deep dive into both, dissecting the...