2014 Playboy Playmate of the Year Receives Roadster as Prize
They say it’s an honor just to be nominated, but apparently if you make Playmate of the Year for Playboy magazine, you also get a car. This year Kennedy Summers takes that...
Is the Manual a Dying Breed?
Is the manual a dying breed? According to Road & Track who looked at the numbers, the answer isn’t what you might expect.
Opinion: Why the New GP is MINI’s First real JCW Product
There is little question the original JCW GP is a special car — an incredibly special car. It was thrown together at break-neck speed with off-the-shelf parts and yet it’s one of...
The Top Ten Things We Love About the New MINI (And Five We Don’t)
After spending a few days with the new MINI we’ve come away convinced that photos don’t quite do the car justice. There’s so much nuance in three-dimensions that is lost in a...
Opinion: Peugeot Shows Us the 270 hp MINI Prince Engine That Could Have Been
Pictured above is the Peugeot RCZ R — a 270 hp sport coupe that’s powered by a version of the same engine found in second generation MINIs like the R56 and R60....
MINI Coupe & Roadster Spoiler Etiquette
This weekend I took a few photos of our longterm MINI Roadster parked on the side of the road and posted one on Twitter. Top down and spoiler up. Natural right? In...
Opinion: Who Is MINI’s Real Competition?
Yesterday we shared a story from Advertising Age about how MINI is expanding its Not Normal campaign. According to the AA story, MINI is intensifying their marketing efforts because “competition has started...
MF Garage: Open Top Showdown. Roadster vs. Moto
It’s no secret that our MotoringFile long-term review car, a MINI JCW Roadster, has won us over to open top motoring. Between the grunt of the turbo, the overall refinement of the...
The BMW i3 & The Future of Motoring
BMW’s foray into electric vehicles began in the early ’70s. Since then, the company has dabbled in electric powered vehicles in proof-of-concept form for motor shows and even internal engineering studies. However...
Opinion: Quality, Change and What Makes a MINI, a MINI
In Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, the narrator takes the reader on a journey that explores the nature of “Quality” as a thing we...