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...
Drive Takes the JCW GP to the Silver State Classic
Drive TV – a Youtube favorite of ours features a handful or different shows that explore every corner of the automotive world. One of our favorites, Tuned with Matt Farah recently took...
Official: The Final R56 Hardtop Hatch Rolls off the Line at MINI Plant Oxford
Over 1 million current MINI Hatch models built at Plant Oxford between 2006 – 2013 1,863,289 total MINI Hatch built since 2001 14% of all cars built in the UK last year...
White Roof Radio #491: The F56
Finally! After months of speculation, spy shots, really bad renders and more press releases than we could shake a stick at, we get to see and talk about the F56! Full coverage...
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Finding the Perfect Used MINI – Your Stories
For so many years MotoringFile has focused on whats new and recently released. However with the price of 2002 MINIs now well below $10k there are great used MINI deals to be...
Transforming a Stock JCW into the JCW GP
The following is the story of one man (Karl Muller) and his obsession (we’d call it healthy) in transforming his 2009 factory JCW MINI into a JCW GP. A few months back...
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MINI USA Announces 2014 Pricing
2014 Model year pricing is in and things are looking good. In fact the only price increase is to the Paceman and Countryman and there MINI is only raising the price $100....
Is MINI Preparing a New Campaign for the Infamous Chain Tensioner?
The R56 has been been incredibly successful for MINI in terms of sales and growing the brand. But one issue has stuck around with the R56 since 2007. From 2007 to 2010...
Old vs New: Two Generations of JCW GPs Compared in Photos
Since the release of the 2nd generation JCW GP we’ve been debating how it compares to the original. And while we’ve found that the new GP runs rings around the first generation...