R50 1st Gen MINI // 2000-2007

Twenty years ago this week BMW took the wraps off of the all new MINI at the Paris Motor Show. Two decades and three...

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...

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...

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

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

Autocar has an excellent look back at the formative years of the new MINI and specifically the last minute switch For MINI production from...

13 years ago when the JCW GP entered the automotive scene things were different. Turbocharged MINIs were only a tuner thing and fast meant...

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

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

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