For those of you that don’t follow along on Facebook or Twitter, my son (aka teh lad) recently joined the Navy. This weekend, he graduated Navy Bootcamp, turned 19 and made me a very proud father. I jotted down a few words about it here on my personal blog. What is MINI related, and I’m …
Category Archives: Op/Ed
Not Again
Did you see this? In case you didn’t. I’m not even sure what to say here, folks, to be honest with you. Last night Gabe and I pulled more than 25 comments from the MINI Super Bowl commercial post before just closing comments all together. I’ve seen some sniping and name calling on MotoringFile before …
Not MINI Related
Not MINI related, but podcast related, I had the chance to present a session at PodcampAZ this weekend. Of course I recorded it. If you are interested in hearing what I think about podcast consistency and listener building, you can check it out here or listen below. Later this week I’m going to tell you …
Would you buy this MINI?
Pictured above is a pre-production R60 Cooper, otherwise known as the Countryman Cooper. Cooper as in normally aspirated. Normally aspirated as in no turbo charger under the bonnet. Would you buy it? I wouldn’t. The problem with the Countryman Cooper is that it is just too slow. I’m not saying this from an enthusiasts point …
Time to get the names right
This is something that has been bothering me for some time. So much so that I actually said something during one of the episodes of White Roof Radio. And quite recently at that. I know there are many of you out there that get confused on what your MINI should be called, and while this …