Bentley Service Manual for second-generation MINIs coming

Nearly five years after the second-generation MINI arrived, Bentley Publishers is about to release its well-known MINI Cooper Service Manual for the R56 Hardtop, R55 Clubman, and R57 Convertible.  Set to be published on September 6, 2011, this large and thick paperback book has over 1,000 pages of information for do-it-yourself repairs.  The cover [...]

first ebook about MINI published

The first ebook about MINI has been published.  The ebook titled Is the MINI Cooper on Steroids? by James Hawthorn is available only as an Amazon Kindle Edition.  It is published by Tudor eBooks, which has a large selection of titles, but it seems like an amateur publication.

From the Forward:

The Mini Cooper [...]

Mission MINI copy available

A copy of Mission MINI, the 54 page booklet by Val McDermid is available for purchase from AbeBooks.com.

The bookseller is in the UK and priced the book at $12.75 with a shipping charge of $12.07.  According to the seller, the Mission MINI competition form is still attached.  The price is high but it’s [...]

collectible of the day: The MINI: Celebrating 50 Years of a Modern Motoring Icon

The MINI: Celebrating 50 Years of a Modern Motoring Icon

Brian Laban might be the most prolific writer on the MINI.  We have already featured two of his other books: The Little Book of MINI and The MINI: The Making of a Modern Icon.

Shown is his most recent book from 2009.  From the book [...]

collectible of the day: New MINI Performance Manual

We previously featured another MINI book by Tim Mundy: You & Your New MINI: Buying, Enjoying, Maintaining, Modifying.  His second MINI book is this New MINI Performance Manual published in 2008.

Another Haynes book, New MINI Performance Manual is a hardcover guide with 160 pages of information on the MINI engine, transmission, and running [...]

collectible of the day: The MINI: The Making of a Modern Icon

Today we feature another collectible book on the MINI.

The MINI: The Making of a Modern Icon was written by Brian Laban and includes forwards by Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear and Frank Stephenson, the designer of the original new MINI.

From Amazon UK:

This text tells the story of the Mini’s development over [...]

collectible of the day: You & Your New MINI book

From 2004 comes another of the popular early MINI books: You & Your New MINI: Buying, Enjoying, Maintaining, Modifying by Tim Mundy.

The table of contents contains:

Chapter 1:  Genesis and evolution Chapter 2:  New Mini in depth Chapter 3:  The Mini One Chapter 4:  The Mini One D Chapter 5:  The Mini Cooper [...]

collectible of the day: Owners Workshop Manual for the MINI

Back in February we featured the MINI Cooper Service Manual by Bentley Publishers.  That book was very thick and very detailed.

Today we have the Haynes Owners Workshop Manual for the MINI by Randall Martynn.  Although this book is in hardcover, the 143 pages are printed on almost newspaper-like paper with only black and [...]

collectible of the day: MINI 50 Years book

MINI 50 Years by Rob Golding is an interesting little book with a clever hardcover case.  The bright yellow cover has a magnetic closure and is opened by lifting the bonnet section (to uncover the MINI engine) and then the main cover to uncover the glossy softcover book inside.

Published in 2007, the fifty [...]

collectible of the day: MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper ‘S’ book

MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper ‘S’ is an unusual “book”. On the bright yellow cover it states “THIS BOOK CONTAINS ROAD TESTS AND FEATURES ON ALL MINI COOPER MODELS”.  Despite the MINI on the cover, the first third of the book actually contains articles on the classic Mini.

Published by Unique Motor Books, this [...]