On a recent out-of-state motoring adventure through New Jersey, the afternoon sky turned from a sunny blue to a hamburger grey. Clouds began to spit on the windshield as I rolled through the countryside, and shortly thereafter it was all-out vomiting on the pint-sized 2009 Chili Red Mini Cooper I had borrowed from a friend. [...]
The 2013 MINI Cooper S Paceman ALL4 is the newest and perhaps most unique MINI you can buy today. The Paceman All4 has three doors, four seats and sloping roof line making it a unique, if not all that mini, all-wheel-drive coupe. It seats only four, but comes with a very strong dash of character [...]
The 2013 MINI Cooper S Paceman ALL4 is the newest and perhaps most unique new MINI on the market. The 2013 MINI Cooper S Paceman All4 has three doors, four seats and sloping roof line making it a unique, if not mini, all-wheel-drive coupe. In this fun and informative TFLcar 0-60 MPH review we test [...]
The 2013 MINI Cooper S Paceman ALL4 is a new two door coupe that defines a lifestyles. In other words, the small MINI crossover is very heavy on performance and style but with only four seats it leaves a lot on the table when it comes to practicality. The Paceman stretches the meaning of MINI [...]
The new 2013 MINI Paceman is small modern crossover…at least as measured by the XL size of today’s American Crossovers. But the newest MINI is no so mini when measured in historic terms. It is in fact absolutely gigantic when compared to the original MINI. Not only is the new 2013 MINI Paceman gigantic by [...]
The Fast Lane Car’s Top Ten Most Fun to Drive Cars for 2013 includes the 2013 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible. The VW Beetle Convertible only had one real competitor, the MINI Cooper Convertible, but it was disqualified given the last one drive by our staff was a 2010 model. With that said, I was pleased to see [...]
Think of the all new 2013 MINI Paceman as a MINI Countryman without two doors. In the process of losing two doors it gets a lower and more sloping roof-line. Under the hood is either a 121-HP 1.6-liter engine, or if you pot for the Cooper S you’ll get the bigger 181-HP power plant. MINI [...]
The 2012 Volkswagen Golf R is the fastest, most powerful and best handling VW Golf you can buy. Unlike the VW GTI it has all-wheel-drive and more powerful 256 horsepower turbo-charged engine. The 2012 MINI Cooper S Coupe might just be the best handling and fastest MINI in the land but unlike the Golf R [...]
The 2012 MINI Cooper S Coupe is perhaps the most unique, fun and quirky MINI in the company’s line-up of diminutive cars. Unlike other MINIs, it only comes with two seats and even a hatchback to get big items in the rear of the car. It is also the best handling MINI you can buy [...]
Perhaps the car that most closely competes with the 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth is the equally diminutive and zippy MINI Cooper S. Both cars are tiny European hot hatches that make driving fun. Both cars are turbo charged and both cars will easily spin their from wheels when you slam down the accelerator. We also [...]
The 2011 MINI Countryman ALL4 is not really designed to go off-road. With just over 5 inches of ground clearance at best this newest MINI has added traction for when the road gets wet and snowy. So 2011 MINI Countryman ALL4 is not off-road worthy in the least. Or is it?
At just over 11-feet in length, the Mini Rocketman is incredibly small, much smaller than the new Mini. It’s closer in size to the 2011 Scion IQ which is the tiniest four passenger (actually 3+1) to be sold in the USA for 2011. Like the IQ, this Mini concept has more room on the [...]
You already know how cute and entertaining the new Mini Cooper is – otherwise, why read up on a fatter, heavier, four-door, all-wheel drive version? I bet it’s the same reason I do. You need more space, functionality and capability than the Mini Cooper and Mini Cooper Clubman offer, but you WANT a Mini! The [...]
The 2011 Mini Countryman Cooper S All4, the 2011 Nissan Juke, and the 2011 Volkswagen Touareg TDI are probably three of the newest and coolest cars that you can buy today. All three are new, and all three can be had in all-wheel-drive. Of course all three are also very different…especially when it comes to [...]
