Oxygen Blue Arrives

At long last Oxygen Blue has finally arrived on MINI’s European online configurators. For those who may have missed it, Oxygen Blue is a non-metallic that will only be available on MINI...

The Clubman’s Boot Storage Module

   With the additional space that comes with the Clubman, MINI has been working on new storage solutions.  One that is likely to see production is a removable storage organizer hidden under...

The Clubman’s Seating Capacity

Since we broke the news a few months back that the 2008 MINI Clubman was designed to seat five, we’ve had a raft of questions about the arrangement from readers. So recently...

R56 vs. GTI vs. C30 T5

In this months Winding Road, they have a very fun piece that is not really versus as much as it is a good comparison of the MCS, the Volkswagon GTI and the...

Official 2007 MINI USA Specifications PDF

Here’s one that US MINI fans have been waiting for: the official MINI Specifications PDF with just about every number on the US spec R56 you can imagine. While we’ve seen most...

More Clubman Photos Hit the Web

Both Worldcarfans and the Car Connection are running the same photos of the Clubman doing more testing in the depths of the Nordic winter. While there’s nothing there that we didn’t see...

The Clubman’s 3rd Door (Revisited)

Last summer MotoringFile reported that the new MINI Clubman would not have four doors as many publications hass speculated. Instead we said that the new car would in fact have only three...

Official MCS Exhaust Tip Retrofit

Let’s face it, the exhaust tips on the standard Cooper S are a little minuscule. There are two things a MINI owner can do. Throw down some serious cash and get a...

The Clubman Strikes Back: More Spyshots

Our friends at Edmunds (yeah we’ve made lots of friends lately) have some fantastic spy shots of the 2008 MINI Clubman looking really thirsty at a Nordic petrol station. Like the shots...