The touchscreen backlash is officially an industry story now, not just an enthusiast gripe. A recent Automotive News report lays out how automakers from Volkswagen’s Scout Motors to Hyundai are walking back...
MINI announced the Oxford Edition globally earlier today, a Union Jack tribute to 25 years of modern MINI production at the plant that started it all. American buyers won’t find that name...
Twenty five years is long enough to earn a proper party, and MINI has decided to throw itself one in the form of a new car. The MINI Cooper Oxford Edition isn’t...
There’s a detail about JCW GP origin story that MINI would probably prefer you believe: a dedicated skunkworks team, months of focused engineering, a halo car built with intent from the first...
Ahead of MINI’s latest release dropping this week, we’re recapping the numerous special editions that MINI have already given us in 2026. least five distinct special editions somewhere in the world so...
Ferrari has done something nobody expected in 2026: it has put a clutch pedal and a gated shifter back into a V12 flagship. The new 12Cilindri Manuale, unveiled this week, is the...
MINI USA has marked America’s 250th birthday with a love letter dressed up as a press release, and buried near the bottom of all that transatlantic charm is an actual line of...
MINI USA sold 7,456 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, a 2.1% decline from the 7,616 units delivered in the same period last year, according to figures released today by BMW...
MINI is back at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year with a massive presence that includes a working pub, a farm shop with a climbing wall, a Paul Smith collaboration store,...
Pop the bonnet on a MINI JCW GP3 and you’ll find a reinforced subframe, a strut brace where the back seat used to be, and 69 extra horsepower wrung out of the...
The numbers tell one story. The experience tells another. Comparing the R53 and F66 Cooper S is, on paper, a simple exercise in automotive evolution. More power, more technology, more weight, more...
The definitive used buyer's guide to the F56 MINI Cooper. Covers both LCI facelifts, every engine, transmission choices, and exactly which model years are worth owning.
MINI has sold a watch alongside almost every generation of its cars since 2001. Most buyers never knew. Most dealers barely mentioned them. And yet the brand’s watch program, running continuously for...
On the surface it’s a paint option. A roof color. The kind of detail that shows up in a configurator update and gets a paragraph in an ordering guide. But for anyone...
If you follow MINI and care about where the JCW brand is heading, the car that debuted today at the 24 Hours of Le Mans deserves your full attention. The BMW M...
MINI ended manual production in February 2024. Here's what that cost the brand, what the sales data revealed, and whether it returns.
MINI built its identity on personalization. The F66's style system simplified ordering while removing most genuine choice. Here's what was lost and why it matters.
MINI has been building special editions longer than most of its current buyers have been alive. From the Limited Edition 1000 in 1976 to the 1965 Victory Edition and the Paul Smith collaboration this year, the...
Are we about to see MINI get serious about JCW the way BMW got serious about M in the 1980s? That’s not a small question. When BMW M GmbH stopped being an...
Ask a child to draw a small car. Not a MINI, just a small car, and there’s a reasonable chance the proportions they reach for will look like a Cooper. Short overhangs,...
The F66 Cooper C and Cooper S share the same engine. Here's what you actually get for the premium, how the Oxford Edition changes the math, and whether the upgrade is worth it.
MINI is reintroducing the One nameplate on the F66 Cooper with a 121hp 1.6-litre engine and a £24,735 starting price.
MINI has formalized what was previously an ad hoc special edition strategy into something more deliberate. Under the MINI Icon Drops banner, the brand has mapped out eight editions releasing between now...
The MINI Cooper Paul Smith Edition is available across the full Cooper family. Here is a closer look at what the five-door delivers and whether the premium is worth it.
The gap between Cooper S and JCW has never been consistent. A generation-by-generation breakdown of what the premium actually buys, and which one is worth it at each price point.
For over two decades, OutMotoring.com has been one of the pillars of the MINI aftermarket community. If you’ve owned an R53 with a supercharger whine louder than your financial judgment, or an F56 with...
The headline from Holger Hampf’s recent confirmation of the F66 MINI Cooper LCI isn’t that a refresh is coming. We reported that last October. It’s what he said about why: the changes...
MINI held the Americas reveal of the Paul Smith Edition at the Paul Smith flagship store on Melrose in Los Angeles, with Sir Paul Smith and MINI Design Chief Holger Hampf both...
Holger Hampf has closed the door on a fourth JCW GP, at least for this generation. But he’s also made clear that something more extreme than the standard JCW is coming, something...
For anyone who has been quietly hoping the current F66 Cooper JCW would eventually beget a track-focused GP variant, Holger Hampf has your answer: it won’t. But the MINI design chief’s recent...
MINI's head of design confirms the Rocketman is still under active study. After over a decade of fits and starts, we look at the full history of the car MINI keeps almost building.
MINI and Bulldog Racing built one of the most compelling recent stories at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, capped by a class win in 2024. With no entry this year, it's worth looking back at what they achieved and what it meant.
The 2026 MINI Countryman is the best version of the model MINI has ever built. It’s also the most complicated to buy. Three models, three trim levels, three style packages, and in...
One of the largest special edition MINI release is about to launch but what models are available, what options are there and what will it cost? We’ve created the first ever MINI...
