13 Jul 2012, 14:25 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Remember the spyshots of the MINI Coupe John Cooper Works GP we showed you earlier this year? Well, if you do, you can forget the whole story, as it’s not going to happen. According to Motorin...
3 Jul 2012, 13:18 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / As a car guy, you’re probably going to be amused by strongmen lifting the back of a sedan with a special jig or pulling a big truck behind them while tugging on a rope. That’s good enter...
25 Jun 2012, 16:34 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The one biggest advantage with vinyl wraps for cars is that you can go for a matte finish that would otherwise be impossible to achieve with paint.
However, if you feel like standing out and blin...
25 Jun 2012, 11:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A MINI Countryman with beefed up wheel arches and the Cooper S engine undergoing testing - could it be a JCW GP edition? According to our man with a long lens the answer is “no”, as this...
19 Jun 2012, 12:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / MINI is turning the Paceman Concept from the 2011 Detroit Auto Show into reality, with a car they are going to call the “Countryman Coupe”. It will most likely be shown at the Paris Auto...
7 Jun 2012, 12:35 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / From the Italian Job to rallying, the MINI Cooper MkI did it all in its long life between 1959 and 1967. It’s quintessentially British styling and diminutive scale made it popular, while the l...
31 May 2012, 10:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Our dedicated team of photographers have once again caught up with the next generation MINI Cooper hatchback, this time as it undergoes road testing. And they managed to capture something really int...
30 May 2012, 11:42 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Remember the guy attending the Gumball on a BMX bicycle we talked about earlier? Not only is he back, but he's managed to get an even more spectaculat tow vehicle.
So, he gave up the SLS AMG (...
28 May 2012, 13:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Winter testing of the F56 third-generation MINI Cooper hatchback has already revealed that the car is basically a re-bodied version of the new 1-Series Gran Turismo, a front-drive hatch from BMW.
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23 May 2012, 12:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / What used to be a British brand, Mini, is getting ready to become not very British at all. That’s because the next generation of the Cooper hatch that started it all back in the early 2000s wi...
21 May 2012, 08:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / MINI recently introduced a John Cooper Works (JCW) version of the Countryman, with the vehicle being powered by a revised 1.6-liter turbo unit delivering 218 hp. Now, the automotive producer is anno...
15 May 2012, 10:52 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With an airbag to protect the person you hit with your car and a slew of other innovative safety features, the V40 five-door hatchback is the most important car Volvo has launched in the last 20 yea...
13 May 2012, 13:00 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Here’s another car built for the fans… for the rich ones in fact. MINI previewed their fastest ever production car, the GP version of the John Cooper Works hatch, production of which wi...
11 May 2012, 15:57 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Have you noticed how the MINI naming system doesn’t make sense anymore? Cooper, Cooper S and John Cooper Works are now overly complicated names for trim levels basically. The system worked fin...
8 May 2012, 17:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / MINI is working on a brand new, third generation Cooper hatch, that promises to do away with all the faults of the current model. Instead of lowering the bonnet line like we wanted, they’ve ma...
25 Apr 2012, 14:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / At the New York Auto Show, MINI officially confirmed that they were indeed working on a new John Cooper Works GP hot hatch, a stripped out road rocket based on their three-door model.
We consider...
22 Apr 2012, 11:23 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / After this piece of news, we really don’t know what MINI is thinking. We were disappointed when we learned that they’re not going to make the Rocketman any more, and now a report from Ca...
18 Apr 2012, 15:53 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Arab customers have a really strange but interesting taste when it comes to cars. Nearly every major Western European tuner has a showroom in Dubai or the Emirates, and so there is no limit to what ...
5 Apr 2012, 13:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / On the Javis Center floor of the New York Auto Show, MINI announced a very interesting car, the second generation of the limited-run John Cooper Works GP. The brand will show this racier version of ...
28 Mar 2012, 11:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The reason the camo on his supposedly secret Cooper is bright orange is because MINI is so proud of it that they want you to see it. It’s the JCW GP, a more extreme version of the most extreme...