The R56 MINI Cooper S, and also the Cooper, comes with a 1.6-liter engine. It's small, but so is the engine bay, so doing any mechanical work vaguely resembles contortionism. People keep complaining ...

Superchips has just unveiled its phase 2 ECU remap for the turbocharged 1.6-litre, 181 bhp engine in the the R56 MINI Cooper S (produced from 1st March 2010 onwards). Given the high demand for ...

If you’re a U.S. citizen hankering for a factory-tuned R56 MINI Cooper S, you’re officially in luck. MotoringFile has received the press release on the new JCW tuning package, and according to our ...

Credit where it's due: the 2001 Mini looked absolutely brilliant. Reinventing an icon for the 21st century was never going to be an easy job, but the task was carried out with aplomb. If you see a ...

Mini comes out with a more practical Cooper S, with four side doors and a bigger engine, but that means less of the previous generation's go-kart handling. Wayne Cunningham Managing Editor / Roadshow ...