This is all over the news today. From the article: WASHINGTON – More than half of car seats do a poor job of preventing whiplash injury because of the way they are built, according to tests by the insurance industry. And Sixteen seats, including those in the Chevrolet Malibu and the Subaru Outback, got the …
Category Archives: MINI News
Maybe next year?
From the sorry to hear that department, Paul over at One Lap MINI has had to postpone his run in the ’05 One Lap of America! Hopefully everything will be good to go for the ’06 run instead!
Mini Cooper adds convertible!
Holy cow! Can you believe it? MINI is going to add a convertible to the line-up! Do you want to go topless? Sure, the weather’s changing. But Mini USA has just unveiled a brand new convertible Mini Cooper that sure will tempt you to drop the top and head for the open roads. From this …
Gas prices
Yet again. Here in California, all of you MINI folks that are using Premium gasoline in your baby (as you should per the official MINI Owners Manual), can expect the price to continue to rise, quite possibly higher than that of regular unleaded. Why? Currently, the refineries are in the process of switching from ‘summer’ …
An interesting article
If you haven’t caught this USA Today article (posted first by Motoring File), then it’s definitely worth checking out. Special models can skew depreciation. Sports cars, some luxury models and others with strong appeal to enamored buyers hold their values well. Thus, the Mini Cooper S and the Mazda RX-8 sports car are expected to …