MF Garage: Is the MINI JCW Roadster the Best Commuter Car Ever?
Bold claim for sure. But the recent warm and sunny weather in Chicago has me thinking the JCW Roadster may just represent the best every day car money can buy. Obviously, a...
MINI’s New Halo LED Foglight Make a Surprise Debut?
A few weeks back at this year’s Geneva Motorshow an MF reader noticed something odd about the fogs of the R56 hatch on the MINI stand. The Foglights were completely different and...
MINI Begins Local Production in India
The idea of local production is one that isn’t new to the Mini world. The classic Mini had numerous local production points throughout the world that allowed the company to efficiently meet...
MF Garage: Our Roadster’s First Spring Road-trip
With a quickly packed bag in the trunk and the Valentine 1 mounted on the windshield, the MINI Roadster and its first spring road trip gets underway just as the sun begins...
Video: Autocar Pits the Paceman JCW Against the BMW M135i
Today we've got an unlikely pairing between the new MINI Paceman JCW and the BMW 135i. While the Paceman JCW is the more sporting than its Cooper and Cooper S siblings, it's still a no-brainer that the M135i has it beat in the performance category. So why compare the two? Simple. Because they cost about the same.
MotoringFile/WRR Audio Interview: MINI USA Product Manager Pat McKenna
MINI Product Manager Pat McKenna took some time out of his busy schedule to chat with us about a couple of the more debated topics on MF recently. First up the GP....
Is MINI About to Shrink its Model Lineup? (Hint – Don’t Bet on it)
Since the debut of the new MINI more than ten years ago, the line-up has grown from one to seven distinct models. As we look toward the next generation MINI hatch, the...
Opinion: An Early Take on the 2014 F56 MINI Interior
I’ve been reading a lot of criticism of the new MINI interior. These critiques range from smart, to blunt with no real rationale. So I wanted to weigh in not as MotoringFile,...
New MINI App “Connect Us” Creates MINI Centric Dating Service
April 1st 2013, Munich. Official Release: Now for something a little more romantic. The latest version of the MINI Connected App is playing cupid to make MINI fans’ dreams of finding the...
The 2014 F56 MINI: Here’s the Interior
We’ve seen glimpses of the interior before but none quite like this. Snapped by a Reddit user what we see above is a full view of the base F56 interior. When we...