During MINI Takes the States 2006, MINI USA distributed these free music CDs to listen to while motoring. They were sponsored by SPIN magazine. The CD featured bands local to each of the cities of the rally.
The MINI Takes the States 2006 CD track listing is:
01 Oranger – Crooked in the Weird of [...]
Four years ago today, MINI Takes the States 2006 began in Monterey, California.
Each registered attendee was given this MINI TAKES THE STATES TRAVELOGUE. The spiral-bound book was part guide and part scrapbook. There are pages to collect names and information from friends you met. Journal pages are designed for attaching photos and recording [...]
Most Americans know about, and maybe attended, MINI Takes the States and MINI United. But one of the first official national or international MINI meets was Let’s MINI.
Let’s MINI 2005 was held in Loreley, Germany from August 20-21, 2005. This black Let’s MINI wristband was given to attendees.
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Everyone who registered and attended MINI TAKES THE STATES 2010 received this badge and MINI lanyard. The badge had a numbered barcode and was your entry to all of the official events. The border color indicated which Launch Party or route you registered for:
Blue – Los Angeles Green – [...]
After nearly a year of production, the 500th of 500 MINI John Cooper Works World Championship 50 special editions has left the assembly line in Oxford. It is due to be shipped to a customer in Australia.
Dr Jürgen Hedrich , managing director of Mini Plant Oxford, said: “The Mini World Championship has been [...]
MINI COOPER S WITH JOHN COOPER WORKS GP KIT.
Four years ago today, the first MINI GP vehicles were handed over to their owners in a ceremony at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. This took place a few days before the beginning of MINI Takes the States 2006.
So today we [...]
Previously we featured two Disney Earl of Sandwich pins.
Today we have another collectible Disney pin, the Seven Dwarfs MINI pin.
Dopey, Sleepy, Grumpy, Bashful, Doc, Happy, and Sneezy ride in a purple MINI Cooper S with yellow headlights. The front license plate says “DWARVES”.
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Exactly nine years ago today the first MINI ads in the US appeared in the August 20, 2001 issue of AutoWeek magazine. There was actually a series of three half-page ads on consecutive odd-numbered pages.
Page 5 had (pictured right):
LET’S BURN THE MAPS. Let’s get lost. Let’s turn right when we should turn [...]
MINI has won back-to-back races in the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge as RSR Motorsports took the checkered flag at Quebec:
Trinkler and Randy Smalley earned their second consecutive GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Street Tuner (ST) victory on the 1.521-mile, 10-turn temporary street circuit, as Trinkler took the lead from Tom Long [...]
For MINI TAKES THE STATES 2010, there was no Travelogue book as in years past. Instead of collecting stamps, this time you could collect button pins.
Attendees could collect a button pin for each city: Atlanta, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Dodge City, Grand Junction, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Knoxville, Las [...]
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