Tag Archive for ‘Cooper’
Rough Roading the MINI Countryman Cooper S
Aaron Bartel takes the newest and largest MINI offroading at the Dirtfish Rally School’s back-lot. How well does the FWD MINI handle the mud and rocks?
MC2 Magazine Posts Up-to-the-Minute Shots of the Newest MINIs
Check out MC2 Magazine today for the recently de-embargoed driving shots of the new MINI roadster and coupe concepts. For what it’s worth, we’re not awestruck by these concepts – they don’t seem to offer anything that the basic MINI hardtop hatch and convertible aren’t already delivering. We think the AWD crossover “Sport Activity Vehicle” [...]
MINI Debuts Concept Coupe at Frankfurt
MINI is celebrating a great birthday: Just over fifty years ago, on 26 August 1959, the classic Mini was presented to the public for the first time, a unique story of success starting out and today giving MINI the perfect opportunity to look ahead without losing sight of the brand’s great tradition. Here’s what the [...]
Fun on the Run to the Sun
Being an automotive journalist has to have some upside this year – amid all the news of declining subscription rates and advertising sales in free-fall, there’s got to be a silver lining somewhere on this cloud! The automotive journalism business has always had its ups and downs. On the downside, you’ll never buy a villa [...]
Army of Cuteness – 1,500,000 MINI Coopers on the Road
You see them everywhere – “New Mini” Cooper S and Cooper hatchbacks, convertibles, and now the lengthened Clubman editions. Occasionally, you’ll see the super-duper hot rod “John Cooper Works” editions or even the limited-run Factory Lightweight GP editions. But each day, each week, you see more and more of them driven by shiny happy people [...]
Dig the new MINI Cooper Convertible
Almost without exception soft-top editions have poorer visibility, are louder on the freeway, weigh more and cost a hefty ransom greater than their tin-top variants. Is the open air experience that much better to justify all the heartache? Yes and no. I will admit, I own a Miata and there is something special about zooming [...]
MINI E charges up plug-in market
Just a couple years ago, the Los Angeles Auto Show was all about bigger, heavier, taller, faster. But what a difference a fuel price spike can make! There were a few standout fast cars this year (The Nissan 370Z springs readily to mind) but the big noise at every automaker’s display was alternative fuel, hybrids, [...]
2008 MINI Cooper Clubman
I have to admit right at the start that I’m a MINI fan. We bought my wife a MINI Cooper back in 2004 and it’s been an automotive love affair ever since. After a year of competing for the driver’s seat, I bought my own MINI Cooper S in 2005. We’re a MINI family and [...]
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