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Head of MINI Design Oliver Heilmer is an incredibly thoughtful and considerate designer. You can see it in the decisions he and his team have made with the highly anticipated refresh of...
Don’t have time to read the 1000s of words we’ve written on this new, aggressive refresh of MINI’s small car range? No problem – we understand busy. So for those you just...
Our first 2022 MINI video is here and it gives us the best view yet of the revised small MINI range. This second LCI is an aggressive and modern evolution for the...
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The title has successfully been defended. The MINI John Cooper Works Buggy has won the Dakar Rally for the second time in a row following its dominant 2020 win. This time it...
2021 must be better than 2020 right? In the MINI world it absolutely will be with a full refresh coming for the F55, F56 and F57 later this year and a few...
While the recently revised 2021 Countryman has garnered a lot of attention on these pages, we haven’t looked too close at the range topping JCW yet. Luckily our brand new 2021 JCW...
The manual transmission is back at MINI USA and seeing impressive demand in certain models. That’s great news for MINI enthusiasts who had feared the elimination of the option on many models...
MINI USA had seen some positive signs earlier this year just before the world was hit by COVID. And surprisingly despite the total shutdown of many dealers and parts of the US...
As auto enthusiasts, we here at MF often debate the dream garage scenario. If you hit the lottery tomorrow, what three cars would you fill this mythical dream garage with? The caveat?...