How a Failed BMW Scooter Built the First MINI JCW GP
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...
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MINI’s 2026 Special Editions: What’s Actually Available Where
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...
How Ferrari’s Manual Return Could Change Cars like the MINI Cooper
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 Gets a Patriotic for America’s 250th and Teases an Upcoming Special Edition
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’s Q2 2026 Sales Slip 2.1% as the First Half Falls Behind 2025
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 Builds Its Biggest Goodwood Yet: Pubs, Farm Shops, and a New Edition
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,...
F56 MINI Cooper Special Edition Buying Guide – Why They’re Not All Equal
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...
BMW M5 Touring Review: The JCW Clubman’s Larger, More Electric Cousin
The high-performance wagon was declared dead. After a week in the BMW M5 Touring alongside a MINI JCW Clubman, the obituary looks premature.
R53 vs F66 MINI Cooper S: Two Generations, One Soul
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...
This MINI Cooper D Hit 1,000,000 Kilometres. Here’s What That Says About the F56
At some point, a number stops being a statistic and starts being an argument. One million kilometres in a single MINI Cooper D is that kind of number. It is the equivalent...
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Twenty-Five Years of the MINI Watch: A Brand That Never Stopped Telling Time
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...
The White Roof Is Back on the JCW. Here’s Why That Matters More Than It Sounds.
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...
The BMW iM3 Concept and What It All Means for the Future of JCW
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...
The Day MINI Stopped Making the Manual: What We Lost and What It Means
MINI ended manual production in February 2024. Here's what that cost the brand, what the sales data revealed, and whether it returns.
MINI’s Customization Strategy Is Its Best Feature and Its Biggest Problem
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 USA Is Turning Special Editions Into Sneaker Drops
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...
Is MINI’s Next JCW Moving into BMW M Territory?
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...
MINI’s Design Chief on What Defines a MINI and the Future of the Rocketman
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,...
MINI Cooper C or Cooper S? The Case for the Cheaper One
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.
The MINI One Is Back. What it Is and Where it’ll Be Sold
MINI is reintroducing the One nameplate on the F66 Cooper with a 121hp 1.6-litre engine and a £24,735 starting price.
Every MINI Special Edition Coming in the Next 12 Months
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 5-Door Paul Smith Edition: The Details, The Pricing and Our Take
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.
MINI Cooper S vs. JCW: Which One Is Actually Worth the Money?
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.
OutMotoring Expands Beyond MINI, Adds Huge BMW Parts Catalog
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...
Is The 2027 MINI Cooper Refresh Worth Waiting For?
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 Paul Smith Edition Pricing Announced Ahead of US Debut in Los Angeles
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...
MINI’s Next Halo Car Has One Job: Be Better Than the JCW GP
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...
The MINI JCW GP Is Dead, But Something Wilder Might Be Coming
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...
The Rocketman Lives, Again. This Time, Maybe for Real.
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.
From the Green Hell to the Podium: Revisiting MINI’s Recent Nürburgring 24 Hours Success
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.
2026 MINI Countryman Buyer’s Guide: Every Model, Every Trim, and What to Buy
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...
2026 MINI Cooper Paul Smith Edition: The Complete Buyer’s Guide
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...
MINI’s 5th Consecutive Quarter of Growth: What BMW Group’s Q1 Numbers Mean for the Brand
Buried inside BMW Group’s Q1 2026 financial results is a number that deserves more attention than the headline EBT margin will get it: MINI delivered 68,503 vehicles globally in the first quarter,...
The MINI Cooper Paul Smith Edition in the Real World: Best Photos Yet
The 2026 MINI Cooper Paul Smith Edition looks better in the real world than staged press images suggested. Here's our best real-world photo gallery yet, plus full details and pricing.