The Mini Cooper Clubman is the epitome of a niche vehicle.
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If you like the Mini formula in hardtop form, you'll love the 2009 Mini Cooper S Convertible.
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We drive the world's greatest beach car; pity about the torque steer.
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Ready or not, electric cars are coming. Mini is the latest brand to join the kilowatt club with a clever conversion called - minus Verne Troyer's blessing - the Mini E.
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To check how the Mini Cooper S weathered the automotive-evolution storm, we ordered a second-generation edition and fed it into the Automobile Magazine staff rotation for four seasons of use, abuse, criticism, and candor.
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Does a brand that celebrates its smallness compromise itself by bringing out a larger model?
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No longer just a dealer-installed package, the John Cooper Works Mini can be ordered direct from the factory. We drive the most powerful Minis yet.
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Longer, and now with dinky doors. Is a bigger Mini really what the world needs?
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Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote that: "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." What a shame it is that he didn't live long enough to buy himself something with a heap of torque so that he
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When you boil it all down, there's only one thing to say about the new Mini: it looks a lot like the old Mini. Yes, it's better; yes, it's faster; yes, the engineers continually emphasize the number of parts that aren't shared with the outgoing car. But the po
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Adria, Italy As a send-off for the current Mini Cooper, Mini is offering the Cooper S with the John Cooper Works GP kit, a stripped-down, pumped-up version for 415 of the hard-core faithful. The GP dumps its rear seats and rear wiper and forgoes options such a
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Arguably the most fun-to-drive, affordable car in the world today, true believers will find the Mini's plusses far outstrip the inherent shortcomings.
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It's been forty-one years since a brigade of private and works Minis first charged through this part of the world.
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Toward the end of our Mini Cooper's time with us, I drove it to Indianapolis for the U.S. Grand Prix with the Lad, a.k.a. my son, Cameron. He wanted to go because Michael Schumacher is his hero, and I wanted to go because I love the cars and the noise they mak
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The first of four Mini Cooper convertibles to roll onto the catwalk at March's Geneva auto show, when the car made its world debut, contained two hip young guys in the front seats and a huge, slobbering sheepdog-age and gender indeterminate-perched in the rear
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BMW's premium small-car division slices off the roof of America's most fun little car.
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Like father, like son: Mike Cooper tweaks the modern-day Mini.
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Associate editor Joe DeMatio travels to England to sample a classic Mini Cooper.
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