Top Gear Names MCS Best Small Car for ’07
The magazine version of our favorite TV show seems to like the 2007 MINI. So much so that it has just named it the best small car for 2007. Here’s an excerpt...
MF Podcast Review: JCW GP (part 3)
With temps up to a balmy 45°F and the roads a little less salt encrusted, I take the GP through some some of my favorite area twisties. The only problem is the...
MINI USA Releases 2007 MPG Numbers
In light of increasing fuel prices, many manufacturers are striving to produce vehicles with an average fuel economy of 30 miles per gallon. The fact that the all-new 2007 MINI Cooper achieves...
MF Podcast Review: JCW GP (Part 2)
With the LSD working overtime, I take the GP through some one of my favorite local five minute drives. It’s still cold and the tires are still not much better than solid...
First Photos of the 2009 MINI Convertible
Our friends at LeftLaneNews have the very first photos of the R57 2009 MINI Convertible. Due out in Europe sometime during the fall of 2008 (early 2009 for the US market), the...
JCW Recaro Seat Install Guide for the R56
We’ve got another PDF in our series of R56 install guides for this week’s DIY Friday. This time it’s the coveted JCW Recaro seats. They may not be available in the US...
MF Podcast Review: JCW GP (Part 1)
Sometimes it’s just easier to get behind the wheel and talk about a car rather than write. Especially about something that has been covered as much as the GP. It also gives...
MINI’s Future Models Revealed
Over the past several years we’ve reported countless times on the future of the R56 platform. Upcoming models, rumored models and even definitive production time-lines. Most readers just about know everything there...
AutoWeek Drives the 2007 MCS
Autoweek chimes in with their take on the R56. Of course, they loved it, but spent much of the review trying to explain the lack of difference in appearance between the R53...
Autoweek Drives the Dinan MCS
Autoweek writer Mark (three MINI articles in one issue) Vaughn had a chance to spend some quality time with a new 2006 Dinan Cooper S. Dinan, long one of the more respected...