The MINI that won the 2012 Dakar Rally was a turbodiesel BMW X3 racing machine under the MINI sheet-metal. Still, they are both BMW vehicles and share the automaker’s zest for winning. MINI has opted to make some special “off road” components for the MINI Countryman to celebrate their return for the 2013 Dakar Rally. Stéphane Peterhansel [...]
If you like small things enlarged, but you like to feel like you’re driving something smallish and if you need all-wheel drive (AWD) then the 2013 MINI Paceman might be your ride. Based on the same platform as the MINI Countryman, this three door hatchback is larger than its sibling, the regular MINI Cooper in [...]
I’m a guy who is lucky enough to drive a new car each week. And in that car are usually three women. While that sounds like a party and sometimes it is, more specifically, my weekly test car is full of one woman and two young girls. They represent my wife and kids and those [...]
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?
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 [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen in this corner is the all new Ford Fiesta RS WRC rally car seen her for the first time at the 2010 Paris Auto Show. It comes with a 1.6-litre turbocharged EcoBoost engine and it officially replaces the current Ford Focus. It will make it’s official race debut next February at the [...]
