Archive for June, 2008

Used Coopers in Very High Demand

Forbes just ran an article with data showing that used MINI Coopers are benefiting from greatly increased market demand.  People who thought they could get a deal on a used Coop are finding themselves paying an average of $2,300 more than they would have just six months before in January.  While hybrids like the Prius [...]

The Glow in the Dark MINI

Garage419 recently asked the designers at Thunderdog to trick out his Cooper S with completely original “body art”, inspired by BMW’s Art Car Project.  The end result can be seen below, and you can watch how they came up with the design using reflective vinyl in this video.

My 2007 Cooper had a bad catalytic converter–with just 8,000 miles!

As I’ve mentioned here before, I run MiniCooperNews as an owner of a 2007 Cooper. This past Friday I was headed up from L.A. to San Francisco when my yellow “check engine” light came on. Yikes! Now my Coop only has 8,148 miles, so I was completely caught off guard. I [...]