MINI Road Tests
BMW's new N47 145PS, 305Nm torque 2.0 diesel in the special edition Cubman Hampton
Wed, 20 Apr 2011
No doubt about it the MINI is the biggest motoring marketing success Britain has ever seen.
The Oxford factory will turn out 240,000 next...
Fri, 21 Sep 2007
First a lesson in MINI product codes, just so we're all clear about this.
The first BMW MINI was coded R50, followed by the R52 convertible,...
Sun, 15 Mar 2009
Whatever was wrong with the MINI Cooper S we tested back in October, now they seem to have fixed it.
The Cooper Diesel I've just handed back...
Wed, 09 May 2007
I thought I was the last bloke in the country to get my hands on the new MINI. Until I drove one to the auctions and half the traders wanted...
Wed, 27 Mar 2002
Tuesday 31st October 2006
Last updated 18-1-2007
Has BMW taken the fun out of the MINI?
First reports from "first drives" a month ago...
Tue, 31 Oct 2006
Tuesday, 20th Sept 2005
When I tested a MINI Cooper back in 2002 I reckoned it was the most fun car there was. Not the fastest by a long way....
Mon, 19 Sep 2005
On the launch in Spain back in 2006 I found the original pre-production R56 Cooper S a big antiseptic. We were promised go-kart handling and...
Mon, 14 Jul 2008
'MAXI' sized MINI offer 4/5 seat practicality, a 350 litre boot, low emission chain-cam diesel engines as well as a 185PS turbo petrol, four wheel drive and, from March 2011, a diesel automatic four wheel drive.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010
MINI Coupe with 2.0SD diesel engine does 50.6mpg and attracts a lot of attention on 1,400 kilometre trek from Innsbruck to Farnborough.
Mon, 26 Sep 2011
By Martin Gurdon.
Big car makers have been talking the talk about electric cars for years, but few have actually tried selling them. Prototypes...
Sun, 18 Oct 2009
It was two years since I'd driven a MINI. That long ago. Yet I could still remember the fun I'd had.
Every control sharp and immediate. Steering,...
Thu, 05 Feb 2004
Unlike the old MINI One, the new one is a 1.4 rather than a 1.6. So you can't simply programme out the throttle restrictor to get Cooper performance...
Wed, 16 May 2007
