Review: The BMW i3s – Testing the MINI Electric Early
According to our sources, next year’s all electric MINI will make liberal use of the BMW i3’s powertrain. That means the best way to get a glimpse into the future is to...
Review: MINI Countryman JCW vs the BMW X1 and X2
Three cars. One chassis. Two very different driving experiences. That’s what we found after spending some time back to back to back with these three UKL2 based BMWs and MINI. But what...
MINI JCW Countryman Review – 1 Week, 1,000 Miles & Dirt Roads
Saying goodbye to our JCW Clubman was hard. We loved that car for all the reasons you’d expect. But after 25,000 miles of testing the time had come to step into something...
Our 2018 MINI JCW Countryman is Here!
After a long wait our Rebel Green JCW Countryman has finally landed in our hands. Our first order of business is of course to get to know this thing. And what better...
We’re Building the Ultimate MINI Countryman
After 23,000 miles and over a year our time with our JCW Clubman test car we’re moving on to something even bigger – the MINI Countryman. But how do you spec a...
Our JCW Clubman Hits 23,000 Miles As We Wonder What’s Next
Our 2017 MINI JCW Clubman is now over 23,000 miles (about 20k on our watch) and it has proven to be the best engineered and built MINI we’ve ever had. Let’s pause...
Review: 2019 Rolls Royce Phantom – The World’s Best Car Redefined
Is there a greater contrast to a MINI than the all new 2019 Rolls Royce Phantom? The Rolls is 3,000 lbs heavier and over 6ft longer in short wheelbase form. Yet both...
MF Garage: The JCW Clubman vs the Highway
Is it possible to call any MINI the perfect highway car? In a word, no. But our JCW Clubman may just be the perfect highway MINI. Recently we’ve been pilling on the...
MF Review: The BMW i3 (Can the i3 Finally Become an Everyday Car?)
Test Note: In late 2019 MINI will be releasing an all electric MINI hatch using an updated BMW i3 drivetrain. So consider this a hint of what’s to come from MINI. In...
Track Showdown: The F56 JCW MINI vs the F54 JCW Clubman
The F56 JCW MINI vs the F54 JCW Clubman. Not the most likely adversaries but perhaps the two best performance cars MINI has in its arsenal. They each represent a very different...