Globe and Mail: Look-at-me MINI has a truly modest thirst
Subcompact cars typically boast spacious interiors and astonishing cargo capacity as reasons to buy. Not so the Mini Cooper S.
The premium price the Cooper S commands is for pace, not space; good sense takes second place to good times; and the person behind the wheel best be an extrovert ’cause everybody looks.
As cars go, it’s a two-door party.
National Post: Packed With Punch
The original Mini, penned by Sir Alec Issigonis, earned a solid reputation for its impish personality, delicate handling (this despite of the 10-inch wheels!), a large centrally mounted speedometer and toggle switches galore. Consequently, when the new Mini arrived in 2002, it was greeted like a long lost friend — it picked up on the old’s key styling cues (including the row of toggle switches and large round speedo) while adding a healthy dose of substance.
Edmunds First Drive: MINI Clubman
We come to the 2008 Mini Cooper S Clubman with more than the usual sense of curiosity. After all, the Mini is a great car, but it’s also not a car for everybody.
Now Mini has brought us an even stranger version of an already eccentric car, a stretched-out model with three doors for people and two doors for cargo. And yet Mini expects the new car to eventually account for more than a quarter of all its sales worldwide.
The crucial question is: Has Mini managed to preserve the qualities that have made its standard model such a hit even as it reaches out to a broader audience with this stretched version of its iconic small car?
Globe and Mail: Your car is trying to tell you something
It is surprising how little some people know about the information displayed on the instrument panel of their vehicle. The Budds’ Service team felt that it may be a great idea to post such an article for those of us who have no idea what that little yellow light in the middle of our dash is trying to tell us.
While it may seem superfluous, every gauge or light has a story to tell and in virtually every case failure to listen to that tale can have disastrous and expensive repercussions.
The 2008 MINI Clubman Official Press Release
We are sure you’re tired of seeing spy shots of the MINI Clubman popping up here and there. Well, rest easy because MINI has just released the first official images along with the specs on the upcoming 5-door Clubman.
MINI Clubman brings back the suicide door!
Having already exposed the first exterior images of the forthcoming MINI Clubman, the only thing left for us to see before the Frankfurt Show unveiling were the interior shots. Thanks’ to a couple of readers at Motoringfile, we now get that chance. The scoop images not only reveal details on the interior but we also see the mechanism on the 3rd (suicide style) door and the space provided for the rear passengers. View pictures of the Clubman inside……..
The AC Schnitzer MINI Cooper S
We’re used to seeing the German tuners upgrade cars for the likes of BMW, Audi and Porsche, but it’s not often that you come across a Mini Cooper modified by one of Germany’s top customizers. This time it’s AC Schnitzer, whose engineers have created the new R56 Mini Cooper.
All-electric MINI Cooper enters production
Hybrid Technologies, emerging leaders in the development and marketing of lithium-powered products, said today that it has moved into production with the BMW AG Mini Cooper all lithium model. After two years of reasearch and an extensive vehicle selection process, Hybrid Technologies engineers selected the Mini Cooper built in Cowley, England.
Globe and Mail: A green machine with pizzazz
The 2007 Mini Cooper is fuel-efficient, decently quick, practical and compact enough to park almost anywhere in the city.
It’s also a green machine with pizzazz. With the manual six-speed transmission, the Mini qualifies for a $1,000 ecoAuto rebate from the federal government. In real terms, that takes the base price down from $25,900 to $24,900.
Naked Clubman caught in the open!
While we all wait to see it live at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September, spies have caught the new MINI Clubman without any disguise as it was being filmed for a commercial.
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