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R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007

Aug 1, 23Aug 1, 23
Marketing R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007 R50 Two-Door Hardtop (Cooper) R53 Two-Door Hardtop (Cooper S)

A Look Back at MINI Mavericks – An Early Ad Campaign From MINI USA

After weeks of new MINI news we wanted to dig into the MotoringFile archives for a blast from the past. Behold the MINI Maverick trading cards from the MINI Maverick campaign. Mavericks...

An Inside Look at How BMW and MINI Recycles Entire Cars 

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It’s The 20th Anniversary of MINI USA – Join Us As We Look Back

Opinion: It’s Time for BMW To Embrace MINI R53 Generation

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R50 Two-Door Hardtop (Cooper) R53 Two-Door Hardtop (Cooper S) Video

The R50 & R53 MINI Prices Are Going Up

The crazy inception of the R50 and R53 is even more an an amazing story that just gets better when you realize just how good those cars were. Literally from day one...

Dec 30, 21Dec 30, 21
Classic Mini F56 3rd Gen MINI // 2014-2022 R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007 R56 2nd Gen MINI // 2006-2014

The MINI Cooper Turns Sixty – A Look Back

MINI is giving us a look back at the history of the MINI Cooper and specifically the sporty side of things. OFFICIAL RELEASE For automotive fans with manual skills, the premises in...

Nov 17, 21Nov 23, 21
F56 3rd Gen MINI // 2014-2022 Official News R50 Two-Door Hardtop (Cooper)

Celebrating 20 Years of The New MINI at Plant Oxford

It’s almost impossible to believe but the modern new MINI now 20 years old. We take it for granted now but the ramping top of production that up at Plant Oxford was...

Apr 26, 21Apr 26, 21
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Classic Mini R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007

Celebrating 20 Years of the New MINI

It’s hard to believe but it’s been 20 years of the new MINI. While we’ll have our own look-back later this year, Autocar has a great retrospective work a look full of...

Apr 14, 21Apr 17, 21
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R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007 Video

Let’s Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the New MINI with a Look Back

Twenty years ago this week BMW took the wraps off of the all new MINI at the Paris Motor Show. Two decades and three generations on the original “new” MINI still appeals...

Oct 6, 20Oct 6, 20
Accessories JCW R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007 R50 Two-Door Hardtop (Cooper) R53 Two-Door Hardtop (Cooper S)

MotoringFile Review: The R50/R53 JCW Leather Dash

This story originally appeared in the April 2006 edition of MotoringFile. Due to a recent post on Instagram we’ve seen a bunch of interest in this long forgotten and highly rare JCW...

Aug 17, 20Aug 17, 20
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R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007 R50 Two-Door Hardtop (Cooper) Video

Watch Press Coverage of the Original R50 MINI Launch 20 Years Ago

Shockingly it’s been nearly 20 years since the R50 MINI was introduced at the Paris motor show in the fall of 2000. Two decades and three generations on the original “new” MINI...

May 10, 20May 11, 20
Classic Mini Design R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007

The Secret MINI Concepts That Could have Changed MINI Forever

How was the modern MINI born? Over the past 15 years MotoringFile has written much about Mini, Rover and BMW in the 1990s. Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of that...

Apr 20, 20Apr 21, 20
Design R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007

Frank Stephenson Shows Us How the Original New MINI Cooper was Designed

The original “new” MINI Cooper was designed over 20 years ago by Frank Stephenson, one of the most revered automotive designers of the last 50 years. But beyond that Frank has also...

Apr 18, 20Apr 18, 20
R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007

When MINI Came to Oxford – The History of New MINI Production

Autocar has an excellent look back at the formative years of the new MINI and specifically the last minute switch For MINI production from the famous Longbridge plant to MINI’s current home...

Dec 24, 19Feb 26, 20
JCW GP R53 Two-Door Hardtop (Cooper S) Reviews

Driving the First MINI JCW GP – Can it Compete with Modern MINIs?

13 years ago when the JCW GP entered the automotive scene things were different. Turbocharged MINIs were only a tuner thing and fast meant under 6 seconds to 60. 13 years on...

May 20, 19May 20, 19
F56 3rd Gen MINI // 2014-2022 Faults & Fixes R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007

Opinion: Can MINI Overcome it’s History of Quality Problems?

MINI currently makes the most trouble free small sporty car, ranks highest in class in sales satisfaction and is the 4th highest quality brand sold in America. Put another way, MINI in...

Mar 4, 19Mar 4, 19
Design R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007

The MINI Concepts of the 90s – How the Modern MINI was Born

How was the modern MINI born? Over the past 15 years MotoringFile has written much about Mini, Rover and BMW in the 1990s. Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of that...

Dec 19, 18Apr 18, 20
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Design R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007

Original MINI Designer Frank Stephenson Interviewed

Autocar recently sat down with Frank Stephenson to talk about his past, current and future projects. But most interesting to us was his stories of how his MINI, perhaps the most beautifully...

Dec 17, 18Dec 17, 18
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