Print magazine Business Car – unsurprisingly all about cars for business use – had an interesting review of the MINI Countryman from the company car driver’s perspective. Firstly, all the vehicles allocated for the UK production run have sold out, meaning that any cars ordered now will not be delivered until next year. MINI Product [...]
No, it’s not an apparition, I really am writing a post! One about an event that Keith didn’t go to either! Back in April 2010 my wife suddenly announced that she’d booked a hotel and bought advanced tickets for Mini In The Park (MITP) at Santa Pod in Wellingborough. We had been to MITP previously [...]
It’s not very often that I get to make a news post on the site, and this one is yet more bad news. According to the BBC News website, BMW has confirmed that 850 jobs are being shed at the Cowley plant in Oxford: All agency workers who did the weekend shift at the factory [...]
According to Motoring File, Mini USA is recalling the 2009 John Cooper Works MINIs. The suggestion seems to be that the brakes are either not up to the job, the wrong size or not what the original specification said. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in its recalls summary pointed out that the affected vehicles [...]
If you were wandering round Miniworld’s Castle Combe Action Day like I was a couple of weeks ago then you will have had a hard time trying to decide on all those nice shiny bits you want for your Mini. You know, the standard fare – mirrors, fog lamps, wheels, bumpers and the like – [...]
You will have no doubt seen pictures in the motoring press of the MINI crossover concept. Whilst the low quality images shown generally around the web don’t do the vehicle any justice at all, most comments I have seen suggest that the front of the new vehicle is not gaining widespread approval. It must be [...]
I am actually quite surprised that I’ve beaten Keith to this one! According to Automotive News BMW are going to supply 500 electic Minis to California. Built in the factory at Cowley in Oxford, they will be shipped to Munich, Germany to have their electric power trains fitted and then shipped on to California. 490 [...]
Please allow me to apologise for my tardiness with this report – no excuses I’m afraid. 60 Minis, 60s dress code and lovely bright sunshine. What more could be asked for when you’re going to a Mini show. 11 May saw us all gather at the D-Day Museum on Southsea seafront to convoy into Gunwharf [...]
No less bad language can be used: Jiffy At Brooklands: Jiffy this morning: You selfish wankers. If we ever find out who did this they will feel the full force of the law and then some. Read about it on the P&SMOC Forum. It was in a locked garage!
You get the itch right? It’s the itch where you really want to get your teeth stuck into a project Mini and you have all those ideas that you want to implement. Yes, that itch. I have the itch. I want to do something different. There’s the possibility of a Clubman shell winging its way [...]
