Automakers must feel like they have something to prove with electric cars. Every new concept and production EV we hear about has supercar horsepower, a ludicrous 0-60 mph time and an interior that looks like the H.R. Giger version of an Apple Store. What if I just want something simple, small and easy to navigate a…
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Minis! They’re fun cars, but please miss me with that British kitsch—they’re BMWs now and we all know it. So, why not stuff a BMW V8 in the front?
Welcome to Jalopnik Movie Club, where we take a look at cars in movies and movies about cars, and you write in with all of your hot takes. This week, we’re reviewing the boring 2003 remake of The Italian Job, a movie that strips most of the style, flair and humor away from the original and replaces it with Marky Mark.
I am nothing if not a fair, honest, and gracious (and beautiful, too, why not) journalist. That’s why when I review Minis, I try to do so from the deranged standpoint of someone who might actually buy them. But the truth is, I hate them for a ton of reasons. Patrick George, who is wrong, thinks I’m wrong. Welcome back…
Welcome to Jalopnik Movie Club, where we take a look at cars in movies and movies about cars, and you write in with all of your hot takes. This week, we’re reviewing the original The Italian Job—the strange tonal genesis of Austin Powers, Top Gear and the global obsession with original Mini Coopers.
Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know. And just a heads up, there are a lot of multi-million dollar settlements and fines raining down on the auto industry today.
BMW is having a hard time figuring out our electro-autonomous future. After making a splash there early on with the i3 and i8, its alternative energy offerings have languished. Now the company has to adapt in a way that could mean losing the whole “driver’s car” thing. Either way, BMW and its Mini subsidiary are…
The 2018 Mini Cooper S E Countryman All4 has a long name and a smaller battery than almost any other plug-in hybrid in existence. But even though it’s a small step toward electric driving, it’s got a lot of personality for a car you connect to a wall socket.
The current generation of Mini Cooper launched way back in 2014, so now it’s time for an update. Here’s the bad news: it’s not getting any major changes, like the dual clutch gearbox option seen in other markets. But on the bright side, it’s getting more British. A lot more British.
The incredible 14-day Dakar Rally kicks off through South America Saturday and American off-road racer Bryce Menzies is finally getting to race it. Menzies wanted to race the Dakar last year, but was badly injured when a world record jump attempt went wrong. Now he’s there in an X-Raid Mini—one of Dakar’s best…
It’s not exactly a replicator you can just look at and yell: “Floor mats. Mini. Make them say that ‘gas, grass, or ass’ thing” and out spits some very classy floor mats for your Mini, but this is pretty close. Mini is now offering a service called Mini Yours Customized that will let Mini owners order custom, 3D…
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Three years ago I ran into Red Bull-backed off-road racer Bryce Menzies in a bar in Iquique, Chile. He was scouting the Dakar Rally- the 5,000-odd mile endurance challenge named after a place in Africa hosted by a French outfit in South America. Next year, he’s finally getting into the pilot’s seat of an X-Raid Mini.
In the 1950s and ’60s, two-tone paint schemes were a common sight on everything from family station wagons to muscle cars. According to a report by Automotive News, that trend is on its way back to the mainstream.
Eighteen engineering graduate students from Clemson University debuted a new Mini concept car, which they developed with help from the ArtCenter College of Design in California, at BMW’s U.S. manufacturing grounds in Greer, South Carolina on Saturday. Called the Deep Orange 7 Mini concept, here are all the weird…
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I had high hopes for the Mini Clubman John Cooper Works. And I will admit that at first, I was disappointed.
For those of you willing to write the Mini Cooper off as “cute” and “dumb” and “not badass enough,” I invite you to examine the Mini John Cooper Works GP: a special edition variant of the previous R53 and R56 generation Mini Coopers with no backseat, extra track goodies, more power, no automatic option, a bonkers aero…
