Tuners are now giving names to their car! We just looked at the Whitestorm, and now check out the MINI Cooper Eagle by AC Schinitzer. Read More… This car is actually developed for track use and the evidence of it is the blistering time it’s set around Hockenheim race track. The Eagle has undergone a [...]

You might remember a couple of weeks back we told you about the special MINI designed for this year’s Life Ball by Canadian designers DSQUARED² . Well, here it is in the flesh. Read More… Dean and Dan Caten managed to totally revamp a MINI Cooper S by adding lots of off road bits  to [...]

Superchips, a British company specializing in automotive electronic tuning, has come up with a new ECU kit for the MINI Cooper S. Read More… The ECU remap for ‘phase 2’ versions of the R56 MINI Cooper S turbo powered by the 1.6-litre turbocharged engine will add an extra 25 bhp and 32 Nm of torque [...]

Each year for the Life Ball, Europe’s biggest AIDS charity event, MINI comes up with a special one-off model which gets auctioned off to benefit the efforts in fighting HIV. Read More… For the 2011 event, they are preparing a unique MINI cooper S designed by the DSQUARED², the Canadian twins specializing in techno art. [...]

Cover EFX realized every tuner works on a number of key points when they work on a vehicle, but that seemed a bit too ordinary for them! So besides that “key points” they’ve also wrapped the car – a Mini Cooper Works – in this rather stupid foil to be different. Read More… The combination [...]

MINI made it official that from Spring 2011 they will launch the MINI Cooper SD, which is the most powerful diesel variant of the car yet. The SD range is powered by a BMW-sourced 2.0-litre engine developing 105 kW/143 hp available for the MINI, MINI Clubman, MINI Convertible and MINI Countryman. They are also offering [...]

If the recent Internet rumors turn out to be true, and they usually so, Mini Cooper SD will be unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The SD is apparently a high performance – well, sort of – version of the Cooper D diesel, which at 74.3mpg and 99g/km CO2 is extremely frugal and clean, [...]