I’m not gonna lie — I get hella excited whenever I see an array of Hella lights on the front of a car. It doesn’t matter if it is a 68 Firebird or a 2005 Mini — a set of rally lights really make a statement. But this next car isn’t just a bright face […]
The rebooted Mini might have lost much of its British charm, but the infusion of German sports DNA (from Mini’s new parent company BMW) was really noticeable in the John Cooper Works edition of the Mini Cooper S. With 211 horsepower and 261 ft-lbs of torque from the turbocharged 1.6 liter 4-cylinder engine the JCW […]
If I asked you to list all of the late model 4 door sedan/wagons with a turbocharged engine, all-wheel-drive and a manual gearbox, you’d probably come back with a list of Japanese (Subaru!) rally machines and maybe a few random oddballs..but you probably wouldn’t suspect that you could find such a setup in an Austrian […]
This next seller needs a lesson in first impressions — when you advertise a car, the first thing you should not include in your description is the phrase “works” complete with quotation marks. What the seller meant to say is that it is the John Cooper Works edition, which is a special edition of the […]
Whenever I run into a late model Mini Cooper pickup truck (Cooperchero…Minimino?) it is usually one of the RedBull promotional vehicles that has been stripped of its giant can of caffeine and ground bull testes…but those ex-RedBull cars are all automatics, so it is nice to find a Mini Cooperino that has both an S […]
This next car comes as a tip from Art C who writes: Higher miles but looks super clean… $3800 seems like a bargain if it checks out. I am a big fan of the new Mini Cooper S and had an argument today if the Cooper S or the Fiat 500 Abarth was a better deal […]
BMW’s revived Mini brand has been on a tear in the past few years with lots of new models and generally positive press. Mini released the Coupe at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show with raked windshield and funky backwards baseball cap styling attributed to Marcus Syring who is probably best known for his work on […]
In 2006 BMW decided to let the outgoing first generation Mini Hatch leave with a bang. It started with the Cooper S model (around $22k), and added the John Cooper Works GP kit (another $10k) to create one of the most expensive first gen Neue-Minis to leave the factory in Cowley, Oxfordshire. The JCW GP […]
Recently I’ve been strangely obsessed with finding a good example of the Mini Cooper Coupe…and no, I didn’t stutter, and I haven’t the foggiest idea why I’m obsessed. The Cooper Coupe, along with its topless sibling the Cooper Roadster, was a 2-seat version of the Mini Cooper built from 2011-2015. The Coupe followed along a […]
When the model year 2000 Mini reboot (brought to you by those guys in Bavaria) was released, it hit with a big splash. Magazine pundits raved about the handling, people flocked to pickup base Coopers, supercharged Cooper Ss, and plus sized Clubman versions (available in both base and S). For the first few years prices […]