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New Episode of DRIVE Features the MINI Dakar Racing Team
Every wonder what’s behind the Dakar winning MINI? Drive’s DRIVEN program, takes us behind-the-scenes to look at Team X-Raid, the clever chaps behind the two-time Dakar winning MINI off road racing...
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Video: The F56 Gets Rendered in 3D, Badly
In what has to be a massive cease-and-desist-letter in the making, virtual modeling site Humster3D.com has made some pretty ham-fisted rendering models of the still as yet unveiled 2014 MINI Hardtop,...
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Infographic: 42 months of MINI USA Sales
MINI fan and data man Robert Mohns has compiled quite an impressive breakdown of MINI USA sales starting from January of 2010. Breaking sales down by year, month and model, this infographic shows...
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Move Over Weiner, MINI Uses Fake Twitter Account to “Sext”
Every year, there’s no shortage of stories about brands who try to ride the waterfall’s edge of being in touch with current events, only to cascade over the brink into disaster. By now most brand...
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Video: Buying a Paul Smith Rover Mini
Take a classic motoring journey with John Quirk, a vintage Mini owner, as he goes from selling yard rescue, to restoration, to weekend motoring nirvana in his Paul Smith special edition Mini. What I...
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The New, Responsive MINIUSA.com
This just in! MINIUSA.com has been updated to an all-new website. No more flash. No separate mobile version. The new site is fully responsive, but still 100% MINI. It’s a long overdue update, as the...
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The Moke Lives: Australian Company to Remake Mini Mokes in China
The chaps at Jalopnik shared a story this week so improbable and wonderful that we just had to share it here. Apparently an Australian company (read family of Australian Mini Moke fans) have gotten...
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Video: New TV Spot for Countryman as IIHS Safety Pick
When it comes to cars and safety, there’s the stats and there’s how a car makes you feel. Small cars like the MINI always struggle to be thought of as “safe” when so many bigger, heavier vehicles roam...
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Video: MINI JCW GP an EVO Car of the Year Contender
The MINI JCW GP is a car that we here at MotoringFile hold in rather high esteem. While certainly not for everyone, it’s a package deal of everything the second generation MINI has to offer in terms...
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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. You read that right: 270 hp. We’ve...
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Spied: The F55 5-door Next Gen MINI
We’re expecting that more than any other, the upcoming 5-door MINI variant will significantly impact the brand’s popularity, especially with American buyers. Mixing a bit of the Countryman’s 4-door...
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Pre-production Rover R50 Prototype Shell Shows up on eBay
Want an early look at MINI development? This prototype shell found on eBay gives us an interesting window into that time period where Rover still had some control over engineering and BMW was guiding...
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City of Houston Tickets MINI …Parked on a Wall
We’ve all gotten a parking ticket before. Chances are though, when the local parking enforcement officer ticketed your MINI, it wasn’t attached to the side of a building. It’s also very likely that...
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Exclusive: MINI USA Launches Paceman Configurator
MINI USA has snuck the new Paceman into the Configurator, but you have to know where to look. Details after the break. To access it, you have to start a configuration on any other MINI model and then...
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Video: MINI JCW GP vs. Mini Busa
This from the UK, Autocar has had a bit of fun pitting the new MINI JCW GP against a bonkers little kit Mini made out of racing bits and half a motorcycle. While one could hardly consider this a...
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Engadget Plugs In to MINI Connected
The MINI Connected system is old news to MINI fans and MotoringFile readers, but for the tech world at large, people are just starting to realize what MINI is up to in this regard. Criticism abound,...
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Video: Autocar Pits the Paceman JCW Against the BMW M135i
Today we’ve got an unlikely pairing from AutoCar.co.uk between the new MINI Paceman JCW and the BMW 135i. While the Paceman JCW is the more sporting than its Cooper and Cooper S siblings, it’s still a...
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Videos: MINIs on the ‘Ring
When MINI debuted the latest GP, a big part of the story was how much faster the new R56-based JCW GP is than the R53 JCW GP. Yet the GP isn’t the only MINI to have been ’round the ‘Ring. For example,...
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MOTOR Magazine Names JCW GP its 2013 Best “Bang for Your Bucks”
Australian motoring site and friends of MotoringFile, Ausmotive.com, are reporting this morning that MOTOR Magazine has named the second generation JCW GP as the latest winner of their “Bang for your...
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MINI Sends Great Apology Letter
MINI delivers a car with miss steering wheel paddles. Hilarity ensues.The post MINI Sends Great Apology Letter first appeared on MotoringFile.The post MINI Sends Great Apology Letter appeared first on...
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