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 ...

The 2014 Cooper will come with a three-cylinder engine and the Cooper S will get a 2.0-liter four-cylinder, both with Mini’s TwinPower turbochargers. A higher-performing package will, of course, ...

It wasn’t simply that the R56 Mini Cooper S Hatch, which hit the road in 2007, was a couple of inches longer than the R53 that came before it. No, there was something else about the new model, too. It ...

We look at the most common problems to blight the second-generation R56 Mini models, and how to cure and prevent them in this buyer’s guide. BMW’s relaunch of the Mini brand has to be the perfect ...

The all new MINI Cooper Works R56 CHALLENGE cars have taken to the sky on their way downunder from Germany. True to their “Flying Brick” moniker, the first 20 cars are currently being airlifted from ...

, which added both performance and a distinctive whine. For the second generation Cooper S, though, Mini had to look to turbocharging to hit the right emissions and economy figures, as well as improve ...