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 [...]
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As the FIAT 500 arrives in the United States soon, some comparisons to the MINI Cooper have been made. For our comparison, we chose the two models closest in performance: the MINI Cooper versus the FIAT 500 Sport. FIAT does have a high-performance model, the FIAT 500 Abarth, [...]
Penguin Books has listed a 2010 MINI Cooper “SD” on AutoTrader.com. The custom orange MINI is listed at $30,000 which also includes the top 75 books sold by Penguin Books over the last 75 years. The listing from AutoTrader.com: Are you or a friend or family member the ultimate literary fan? Then [...] Today we have one of the most collectible items in the Library of Motoring collection. Shown is one of the earliest MINI press kits in English. The MINI One MINI Cooper Press Information (2001) is a glossy folder containing MINI information, a book, color photographs, and a CD. Open the press kit folder left and [...] Today we feature what might be the most collectible MINI brochure of all time. One of the earliest brochures from the UK is this MINI ONE. MINI COOPER. brochure from 2001. The glossy spiral-bound brochure has a clear plastic front cover and a thicker translucent back cover. The seven sections of the booklet are a [...] IMAG-A-MINI R50 TEMPLATE Probably one of the most expensive ad inserts created for MINI is the IMAG-A-MINI ad. The insert consists of a plastic template for drawing a custom MINI Cooper (R50). The ad insert can be found in the following magazine issues: Blender. November 2005. Metropolis. December 2005. Premiere. December 2005. Surface. Issue [...] Listeners of National Public Radio (NPR) on weekends are familiar with the program “Car Talk” featuring “Click and Clack”, or Tom and Ray Magliozzi. On the program the brothers review cars and attempt to solve the car problems of callers. They have reviewed two MINI models: 2002 MINI Cooper (2003) 2009 MINI Cooper Clubman [...] Today we go back to 2002 for another launch-era MINI USA collectible. Pictured is the first US MINI models brochure for the MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S. The thick, 26 page glossy brochure lists the features of the MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S models with several fold-out pages and four translucent pages. [...] John Cooper Works produced tuning kits for both the first-generation MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S. Both versions were strictly dealer-installed accessories. With every JCW Tuning Kit came a John Cooper Works MINI Cooper Tuning Kit Certificate of Authenticity. While the John Cooper Works MINI Cooper S Tuning Kit is relatively common, the John Cooper [...] Last month we featured the John Cooper Works Tuning MINI Cooper S brochure. Today we bring you two John Cooper Works Tuning MINI Cooper brochures from the UK. These eight-page brochures were printed in March 2003 and give some background information on John and Mike Cooper, describe the parts of the tuning kit, and [...] |
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