cooper

Race

Nov 23, 2017 Lee Stern

Mini John Cooper Works Dakar rally competitors launched

The Mini John Cooper Works buggy and rally car will attack the Dakar with 335bhp 3.0-litre engines. Mini has revealed a buggy and…

Video

Mar 7, 2016 Danielle Bagnall

The classic Mini; the true Mini in enthusiast’s eyes, will always be an iconic model and this makes us see why. In…

Aug 18, 2014 James Gent

crankandpiston.com pits the brand new MINI Cooper S against a Honda-powered Sodi go-kart to find out just how accurate the ‘go-kart feeling’…

Aug 7, 2014 James Gent

Can the brand new MINI Cooper S ‘out go-kart’ a go-kart on-track? crankandpiston.com headed to the Dubai Kartdrome to find out When…

Lifestyle

Jun 8, 2014 crankandpiston

We all love a bit of LEGO here at crankandpiston.com, and although some may say we’ve outgrown the bright plastic bricks, they're…

Car Review

Mar 3, 2014 Mo Aljeda

What happens when you re-invent an icon? crankandpiston.com travels to Puerto Rico to find out by putting the brand new MINI Cooper…

Race

Dec 9, 2013 Phill Tromans

Take a regular, front engined Mini Cooper, and pop another engine in the boot. Double the power, double the fun. The standard…

Road

Sep 29, 2013 Gentleman James

The MINI Cooper S JCW. The perfect vehicle for the perfect heist? Ten years ago, a group took on an ambitious job…

Race

Jun 2, 2013 Phil McGovern

Pikes Peak won't be all about a French man by the name of Sebastian Loeb and his Peugeot this year. Jean-Philippe Dayraut…

Road

Feb 19, 2012 James Gent

We roll out of the airport’s underground car park, blinking in the Lisbon sunshine. Less than an hour earlier, we’d completed a…

Road

Feb 16, 2012 James Gent

“Pack your bags, James. You’re going to Portugal”. This seemed an odd way to tell me that I was being relocated, but…