classic Mini magazines for the iPad

Two long-running classic Mini magazines from the UK are now available for the Apple iPad and iPhone.  Mini Magazine and MiniWorld can be found in the Apple Newsstand.

The Mini Magazine app is free to download.  Individual digital issues are $4.99 or you can get three subscription lengths: 90 days for $12.99, 180 days for [...]

Grassroots Motorsports: MINI Cooper Buyer’s Guide

The December 2011 issue of Grassroots Motorsports magazine is out now and it contains a complete MINI Cooper buyer’s guide.  The article begins with a brief history of BMW’s acquisition of Mini to create the MINI brand.  It covers the early years of the MINI in the US.  One table lists the year-by-year changes from [...]

THE MINI INTERNATIONAL iPad App released

MINI’s automotive, travel, and style magazine is now available as an app for the Apple iPad.

From BMW Group PressClub Global:

Munich. THE MINI INTERNATIONAL magazine will be released as an iPad app in German and English in the iTunes App Store on 13 September 2011 in time for the start of the IAA [...]

MC2 Magazine issues 28-32 now online

We announced in April that MC2 Magazine launched its online magazine.  Now they have released issues 28 through 32 online.

Read MC2 issues 28-32 for free:

Issue 28: October – November 2010 Issue 29: December 2010 – January 2011 Issue 30: February – March 2011 Issue 31: April – May 2011 Issue 32: June [...]

MC2 launches online magazine

MC2 magazine has gone digital.  The North American MINI magazine launched an online version of itself beginning with Issue 28 for October-November 2010.  Read the online version at mc2.epubxp.com.

In addition to the magazine, MC2 plans to roll out a few more MINI-related websites.  Later this month, a new GoMotoring website will launch.  According [...]

collectible of the day: New MINI Style Magazine

New MINI Style Magazine Vol. 8

New MINI Style Magazine Vol. 26

Japan has been a big market for MINI going back to the classic Mini days.  Sales to Japan helped keep the Mini going during the 1980s when sales elsewhere declined.  Japan probably has more MINI magazines than any other country.  We [...]

collectible of the day: Modern MINI magazine

Modern MINI is a bi-monthly magazine from the UK which started publication in 2006.

From the Modern MINI website:

Modern MINI is the only dedicated publication for the BMW MINI on the news stands in the UK. Bi-monthly, we provide the best roundup of the new MINI scene. Covering the latest news, the magazine’s [...]

collectible of the day: GoMini magazine

GoMini was a new MINI magazine from the UK from the publishers of Mini Magazine.

Shown here is Issue 1 from Dec/Jan 2004.  The first issue sold for £3.80 and featured articles on a modified MINI One, Jeremy Clarkson on the MINI, The Italian Job (2003), news, MINI products, best MINI websites, and more [...]

collectible of the day: MINI SPIRITS magazine

MINI SPIRITS Vol. 2

MINI SPIRITS Vol. 1

We have featured several magazines during the year, but none quite as exotic to Western MINI owners as the Japanese MINI SPIRITS magazine.

The large issues covered both the classic Mini and the new MINI.  Shown here is Vol. 1 (right) and Vol. 2 (far [...]

collectible of the day: MINI Scene International number 1

MINI Scene International magazine is a German magazine that preceded format:MINI magazine (which we featured in February).  It covers both MINIs and classic Minis and according to the cover is an “unabhängiges Magazin für die Mini Community” (independent Magazine for the MINI community).  The magazine is written in German and published approximately quarterly.

Shown [...]