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more about #coopers more comments → Alfisted: Officer: Did you see who ran you off the road? Motorist: Yes, it was some punkin a mini. #motortober more » YankBoffin: This does give me a good pumpkin idea. I wonder how recognizable my car's headlights, grille, and windscreen would be if carved in a pumpkin. QOTD, ... more » skaycog was here: There's some great carved pumpkins out there. My car of choice wasn't among them, but this one is pretty neat. #motortober more » Lounge Singer Chamois: Don't they realise that the word before "-tober" has to have some phonic similarity to "Oct-"? Otherwise the effect is lost. Rock-tober - Yes Truck... more » MushyHeirloom: Image presumably captured at an original Mini owner's club meetup. #motortober more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Will these mini-pumpkins be twice the size they were in the sixties? I'll take two. #motortober more » ManicSquirrel is preparing for winter: Fantastic? Yes. #motortober more » FTGDWolverineEdition'09: SAVE A ROBBER. DIG THE GRAVE. GRAVE-ROBBER p.s: I know it's lame but honest to god that's the first thing which popped into my head. #motortober more » Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): Leave it outside until November 17th and you'll have the New Mini Coupe. #motortober more » snapoversteer 'bout to get told: Good find, Peter. How the hell did they beat Lancias and Porsches? #mini more » VeeArrrSix: Nice hat Comrade! #mini more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Mini should take these guys around to old folks homes everywhere to put on demonstrations. "See, you old farts, this is how you get to the bingo hall.... more » skaycog was here: I really enjoyed that video....it was very well done! Kudos to the Mini Company. If I could do any kind of racing, it would be hillclimbs. #mini more » Heavern2: What a great glimpse into the live's of two old racing hoons. Wish I could be a race car driver. #mini more » DoctorNine: You can get a new 2008 R32 for the same price. I think there might actually be more space in the R32 when you fold both cars' rear seats down too. T... more » -
#adwatch
"Motor-Tober" Campaign Hopes To Scare Up Mini Sales
Mini's rolling out a campaign dubbed "Motor-Tober" to drum up interest in the lineup. The fall-theme includes the above ad and others, open houses at dealers, auto-cross events and the like. Wonder if there'll be a mini-pumpkin carving contest? [Twitpic] -
#motorsports
Rally Gods Take To Monte Carlo Course In Convertible Mini
Paddy Hopkirk and Rauno Aaltonen—winners, respectively, of the 1964 and 1967 Monte Carlo Rallies in Mini Cooper S’s—revisit the rally course 40+ years later in a convertible John Cooper Works Mini. More » -
#minicooperclubmans
2009 MINI Cooper Clubman S, Part One
As interns at Jalopnik, we've got a pretty sweet gig. Admittedly, there are occasionally humdrum duties such as cleaning the tire debris off of Challengers and Corvette ZR1s, but at the end of the day, the perks outweigh everything else. Heavily. When two of us were tossed the keys to a fully-fueled 2009 MINI Cooper Clubman S so fresh its interior plastics were still off-gassing, and the only spoken rule was that it had to be at the airport the next morning to meet the boss man with most of its important bits still attached, our minds ran wild. A full trunk of camera gear in tow, we did what anyone would when presented the keys to a MINI S. We went straight to Hell. More » -
