Check out our event coverage of the Southern California MINI Maniacs meet.- Web Exclusive
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Check out the R56 Stoptech Brake Upgrade on our long term 2008 MINI Cooper S.
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The Pier-Less Hot Hatch
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Ocean To Ocean In A Brand-New MINI Cooper S
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MINI Cooper S power adders
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Life With America's Hottest Hatch
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The release of a revamped 2007 MINI Cooper Supercharge
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I know what you're thinking: This is the new Mini? It looks just like the last new Mini.
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Gazing up at the mushroom cloud coming directly towards us, it looks to me like the world is about to end. A thick, black swirli
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Mini ran a radio ad a few months ago on the convertible, something about a "top-down patrol" who would go around and harass those convertible drivers motoring with their tops up. It's true, it seems a shame to drive a convertible on a nice day without feeling the sun on your face and the wind in you
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Our man Kerry Morse spends some quality freeway time in the MINI Cooper S Steptronic. Read the review of its Steptronic transmission in LA traffic.
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A MINI stretch limo made its world debut in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. The six-wheel, four-door, six-seater stretch MINI Cooper S, featuring the John Cooper Works tuning kit, was built by a specialist in Los Angeles. The MINI XXL comes with a retractable flat-screen TV, a DVD player, C
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When MINI invited european car to drive the new convertible MINI Cooper-in Marseille, France-I jumped up and down and waved my arms. Being a fan of the MINI as well as an eternal Francophile, I exclaimed, "Mais oui" and packed my Louis Vuitton duffels.
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It's 10 p.m. at the upmarket Galereya restaurant in downtown Moscow. A pale blue MINI Cooper S sits on a makeshift startline as a girl with an eccentric fringe unfurls a Russian flag. The flag drops and the driver wheelspins his way into the city traffic. Welc
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Billed as the North West's largest gathering of all-European automobiles, the first annual Eurofest NW attracted an impressive gathering of enthusiast vehicles, including Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Volvo, Volkswagen and others.
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Living Legends40 Years Later And Still On TopStanding upon the windswept Col de Turini, high above the Principality of Monaco, I
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"It's like a loose rollerskate or a flying Toastmaster," said Denise McCluggage, with a girlish giggle, as she threw her head ba
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"Have a Guinness or two for me."
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If you want to bring down a big man, call his car "cute." It hurts worse than a surprise nut trample or swift blow to the solar plexus. So when the wife called the Cooper S "cute," I decided to return the insult by taking her on a little drive. In a blaze of t
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On the coolness scale from 1 to10, the new Mini Cooper pings off the redline. It's one of those rare cars that manages to blend aesthetics, utility and performance in a package that is universally regarded as hot (hot enough, in fact, to be attractive to both sexes).
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When we first heard about the plans for a successor to one of the icons of the world motor industry, we were at the very least s
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European Car Grand PrixThe Most Significant New European-Bred Automobile Of 2002It may be called the Mini, but the editors of eu
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Perugia, Italy--One of the most telling aspects of the new Mini's introduction to an assembled press corps (of mostly Americans and Canadians) was the moderator's language: German. If it weren't for Mini PR chief Mike McHale bringing his Englishness to the lau
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The new MINI Cooper S has a number of attractive qualities, but it all begins with the platform's long wheelbase combined with wide tracks, short overhangs and a low center of gravity. Add sporty and direct steering and a responsive manual gearbox mated to a s
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The exciting new Cooper S, though "imitative" of the original Mini, happily does not share the "endearing" quirks of its older namesake. Instead it "modernizes" the enjoyment that comes from driving a small, nimble, responsive urban-centric car.
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