Archive for the ‘MINI’ Category

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  The First Front Wheel Drive BMW: The 2014 MINI

  Nov 18, 13 • MINI • Gabe • No Comments

  20 years ago BMW created a plan to revitalize the Mini brand. The idea was to create an entirely new car from the best of Mini’s heritage. Tapping into its history of performance and style, BMW combined that heritage with BMW’s renowned...

• Dakar: Husqvarna Finishes Top Ten

  Jan 20, 13 • Dakar, Husqvarna, MINI, Motorrad • Nathaniel Salzman • No Comments

  It\'s been a great Dakar for BMW Group. MINI successfully defended their title with overall victory two years in a row. On two wheels, the Husqvarna...

• Sprint Start: All or Nothing?

  Jan 6, 13 • MINI, Motorsport • Matt • 1 Comment

  BMW ‘s MINI brand has returned to motorsport ‘s most grueling competition, the Dakar Rally.The X-raid team has returned to defend its championship with four MINI All4 Racing Countryman. This year ‘s route will take the teams across some of...

• MINI & BMW to Dramatically Expand Small Car Offerings

  Nov 26, 12 • F45 2 Series Active Tourer, F4X GT, F4X Z1, FXX 2 Series Gran Coupe, MINI, Uncategorized • Gabe • 7 Comments

  In various interviews over the past few months, BMW executives have hinted at grand plans for the UKL platform. Reported by both MotoringFile and BimmerFile, the UKL platform will spawn an onslaught of FWD models. This will make MINI more long-term viable...

• BimmerCast #65: M550d, Manual M5, Diesels in the US & the JCW GP

  Nov 13, 12 • //M, //M Diesels, //M5, BimmerCast, EfficientDynamics, MINI • Gabe • No Comments

  We\'re back for the November episode of the BimmerCast with a full plate of BMW news to discuss.

• BimmerFile First Drive: MINI JCW GP

  Nov 11, 12 • MINI, Reviews • Gabe • 7 Comments

  We\'re going to tip our hat here. It may come as no surprise that the 2013 R56 JCW GP is the fastest MINI of all time. Yet what may be surprising is that it\'s the most involving and engaging MINI we\'ve ever driven. And it feels closer to an M...

• BimmerFile Video Review: 2013 MINI JCW GP

  Nov 11, 12 • MINI, Reviews, Video • Gabe • 1 Comment

  You can learn a lot about a car (especially a car designed for the track) in ten hard laps on a well designed track. If you haven\'t read our full review of the car, certainly

• Preview: BMW at Geneva 2013

  Oct 2, 12 • F2X X4, F3X Gran Turismo, MINI • Staff • 2 Comments

  It ‘s four months away but it ‘s not too early to start talking about the Geneva Motor Show. It ‘s planned to be a massive show with several high profile introductions and concepts. Let ‘s go through the list...

• The X2; BMW\’s Future Compact Crossover Coupe

  Sep 25, 12 • F26 X2, MINI, Rumor • Gabe • No Comments

  As BMW goes further down the path of integrating future MINI products into the BMW brand ‘s own products, the next obvious crossover is with the small crossovers themselves. More specifically we ‘ve learned that BMW will be building the next...

• BF Review: MINI JCW Coupe vs BMW 1 Series M Coupe

  Jun 18, 12 • //1M, //M, MINI, Reviews • Gabe • 6 Comments

  The high end of the MINI JCW line versus the low-end of the M line. It\'s a little apples to oranges but in the BMW Group empire, these two aren\'t that far apart in positioning and pricing. So what better way to spend a weekend than to take both of these...

• BMW to Produce Future 3 Cylinder Engines at Hams Hall in the UK

  Jun 12, 12 • F4X GT, i8, MINI • Gabe • No Comments

  Today at the SMMT 2012 International Automotive Summit at Canary Wharf, London, Ian Robertson, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Sales and Marketing BMW, announced that the new generation of high-tech, 3-cylinder petrol engines for the future BMW...

• BimmerCast #58b: The Future of MINI

  Jan 2, 12 • BimmerCast, MINI • Gabe • No Comments

  Subscribe | Download (10 MB MP3) Something funny happened after Michael and I finished our last podcast for BimmerFile. We started talking MINIs. And as we ‘re prone to do, we quickly started talking about future cars and the direction of the brand....

• The Mighty Prince Engine: It\’s Future on the Road & in Motorsport

  Nov 23, 11 • F20 1 Series, MINI, WTCC • Gabe • No Comments

  The current 1.6L MINI engine wasn ‘t quite born out of the strange bed-fellow partnership that the previous power plant was. The Tritec came to MINI from of Chrysler (where it was engineered and designed in Detroit) via Brazil (where it was produced)....

• BMW Group Wins Four Awards in the J.D. Power APEAL Study

  Jul 28, 11 • E89 Z4 Roadster, F10 5 Series, F25 X3, MINI • Gabe • No Comments

  Official Release: Driving pleasure, premium quality and reliability guarantee the latest models from the BMW and MINI brands the highest acclaim in international automobile markets. That has been confirmed yet again in a recent study conducted by...