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Cadillac Targeting MINI In Europe
British car site Autocar is reporting that Cadillac has set its sights on MINI with the Urban Luxury Concept recently debuted at the LA Auto Show. Talking with designer Niki Smart, the MINI appears to...
View ArticleFifth Gear Reviews The Countryman
Host Vicki Butler-Henderson from Britain’s other car show gives us her video two cents on MINI’s new Countryman. In short, she praises the car for its practicality, then derides it for not being a...
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MF Review: MINI Countryman All4 On Snowy Streets
In my estimation, the Countryman exists to appeal primarily to two groups: those who want more interior room, and those who want a MINI with AWD. I definitely fall into the latter category. These...
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MF Interviews At NAIAS, We Want Your Questions
Next week we’ll be at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit and have access to a number of key people within MINI. We’ll be talking Paceman and certainly trying to get as much teaser...
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The MINI Diet
This story comes to us from MotoringFile contributor Brendan. I met TonyB two years ago through North American Motoring and we’ve kept in touch sporadically since then. I bought my current suspension...
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An Ode to the Manual
It’s the right of passage many of us graduate to early in life that quickly becomes a badge of honor. It’s the subtle cue to another enthusiast that you’re serious about the art of driving and a...
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An Ode to the Automatic
(In part two of our manual vs automatic debate we’re writing about the unyielding march of technology and how that’s actually a good thing — even for manual drivers). The manual is a dying breed....
View ArticleWe’re Better Than This
I’m not even sure what to say here, folks, to be honest with you. Last night Gabe and I pulled more than 25 comments from the MINI Super Bowl commercial post before just closing comments all together....
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Steve Jobs Changed Our World
It’s rare when someone affects our lives as much as Stve Jobs has. Whether you have an iPhone in your pocket or not, Steve Jobs has defined our technological present and future more than any one man...
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The 2002 MINI USA Launch & How it Inspired MotoringFile
Ten years ago I played hooky from work for a few hours. After all it was a special day. A new brand from BMW was being introduced to the US that had completely captured my imagination. As a bit of an...
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Opinion: Can BMW & MINI Sell More Without Selling Out?
Back in 2002, BMW and MINI produced only a handful of models; the 3, 5 and 7 series, X5, Z4 and of course the MINI hatch. With the current model line-up that seems like an eternity ago but in reality...
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Opinion: Us vs. Them
This op/ed comes to us from veteran MotoringFile contributor and White Roof Radio co-founder, Don Burnside. Over the years I have had many opportunities to speak directly with those in charge at MINI...
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MF Vault: An Ode to the Manual
This week from the MF Vault we’re re-visiting a couple of features we published last year giving opposing views on everyone’s favorite debate: auto vs manual. With a dramatically updated automatic...
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MF Vault: An Ode to the Automatic
This week from the MF Vault we’re re-visiting a couple of features we published last year giving opposing views on everyone’s favorite debate: auto vs manual. In part two of our manual vs automatic...
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MINI’s Exclusive Goodwood Edition Priced to Sell at $39,995
The following is an editorial that wasn’t influenced by advertising on this site but more inspired by what it and what it means for the future. As those of you in the US have likely noticed,...
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MINI Goodwood – How Would you Change it?
We love MINI and we are pretty fond of the Goodwood as well. But over the years we haven’t pulled any punches in second guessing some design and specification choices are various MINI models –...
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Review: MINI Paceman Cooper S ALL4
MINI is a car brand that means a lot of different things to a great many people. For some, it’s about economy. For others, it’s style. For many, MINI is about performance. Thing is, they’re all right....
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Opinion: An Early Take on the 2014 F56 MINI Interior
I’ve been reading a lot of criticism of the new MINI interior. These critiques range from smart, to blunt with no real rationale. So I wanted to weigh in not as MotoringFile, but just as Gabe Bridger,...
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MF Garage: Is the MINI JCW Roadster the Best Commuter Car Ever?
Bold claim for sure. But the recent warm and sunny weather in Chicago has me thinking the JCW Roadster may just represent the best every day car money can buy. Obviously, a statement like that should...
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Opinion: Quality, Change and What Makes a MINI, a MINI
In Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, the narrator takes the reader on a journey that explores the nature of “Quality” as a thing we all instinctually...
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