White Roof Radio - The MINI Cooper Podcast

Owners Lounge is still there and we almost did not get a gasoline powered JCW! Lots to get caught up, both from us and from MotoringFile! And, don't forget, there is a new episode of Black Roof Radio, with one more following later this week! I should also be sharing the feed to black roof at the same time.

We did cover a lot this week! All of the new MINI stuff we talked about can be found at the links below!

• Global MINI Sales Down 21% Due to Model Change Over - MotoringFile
• Premier: The Electric MINI Cooper JCW - Electrification in Hot Hatch Form - MotoringFile
• Global MINI Sales Down 21% Due to Model Change Over - MotoringFile
• Review: F66 MINI Cooper S JCW Trim Is The Best Cooper Sold - If You Can Get It - MotoringFile
• World Premier: 2025 F66 MINI Cooper JCW - More Performance, New Tech & Petrol Powered - MotoringFile
• World Premier: MINI Cooper JCW Convertible - The Ultimate Petrol Powered MINI Open Top - MotoringFile
• MINI Cooper JCW Pricing Released - Here’s What Both New Models Cost Worldwide - MotoringFile

19 years of White Roof Radio, 20 years of Detroit Tuned, 22 years of Motoringfile. That, plus a ton more stuff, including Gabe's thoughts from MTTS and the latest from Motoringfile.com!

Just getting this into the feed, full notes to follow at WRR and MF. Meanwhile, here are the links you are looking for. Oh, and there is new Black Roof Radio!

https://www.motoringfile.com/2024/04/17/the-f66-j01-mini-cooper-dimensions-in-depth-inside-out/

https://www.motoringfile.com/2024/03/06/video-review-electric-mini-countryman-se/

https://www.motoringfile.com/2024/02/29/exclusive-minis-3-cylinder-engine-is-dead-in-the-us/

https://www.motoringfile.com/2024/04/29/rumor-the-new-f66-mini-cooper-jcw-to-debut-at-the-nurburgring-24-hours/

https://www.motoringfile.com/2024/03/20/motoringfiles-2025-u25-mini-countryman-ordering-guide-us/

https://www.motoringfile.com/2024/03/29/our-jcw-clubman-gets-dialed-in-with-suspension-and-chassis-modifications/

Big show to close out 2023! Full crew too! A quick heads up, it's not, it's the audio for this episode. And, we do go a little long.

Lots of news from Motoringfile.com including:

• Gabe Demo's the new Car Play experience
• MF ordered one of the last Clubman
• More Aceman news
• Updated F66 Specs
• The MINI SE
• BMW CCA Needs Your MINI
• The MF Coupe
• All JCW News

Long show. Don't forget to go over to BlackRoofRadio.com to download not 1, but 2 additional episodes! The first one has some great information on why we hate the sunroof, and sunroofs in general. The 2nd is for you, the true BRR fan.

Enjoy the end of your year everyone! We look forward to talking about more MINI Cooper stuff in 2024!

Comments are open!

After a 2 week delay that was 100% my fault, I am proud to deliver the latest episode of White Roof Radio. Getting started with news and MINIUSA on again off again manual transmission status is finally updated, for reals, to no longer offering a manual transmission on any of the models. Of course, details on getting one can be found at MotoringFile

Gabe also just wrapped up his stint with the worse named MINI in the history of MINI; The Untamed Edition. The short version you hear, for the full review, including video, can also be found at MF. By the way, Untamed is worse than Untold, don't listen to two weeks ago db, he was wrong.

Moving on, we all agree that the R53 is the G.O.A.T. Chad does school us on some gotchas that can come along with owning an old MINI. Gabe is looking really hard at getting an R53, but that could change. What do you think he should get?

Special thanks to the extra technical info provided by Chad! Are you looking for the sunroof drain fix? Detroit Tuned has your covered!

From the archives, when we talked to Randy Webb during Woofcast 9 when Todd learned what adiabatic expansion was. By following that link, you will find that episode 9 has been restored! And, as mentioned, you really can't beat watching James May reassemble anything, especially a Honda Monkey.

Starting off reminding you that MotoringFile.com is the only source for MINI Cooper news. If you disagree, or prefer to get MINI news elsewhere, please, let us know. Also, we have all pretty much stopped using X/Twitter and can find us on Threads (and, in my case, Mastodon too!). Before getting into it, this is your reminder that there was a brand new episode of Black Roof available, 100% free of charge!

Ok, with that out of the way, click over to MotoringFile and start scrolling. I recommend that you start with Gabe's hands-on review of the MINI Cooper Electric, then, check out his take on the Electric Countryman. From there, go where you like to get ALL of the information about these two MINIs. There is a ton, photos, specs, everything to make your MINI nerd heart happy!

And, we promise the next show will be for us OG MINI people to talk about the R cars and cool stuff being done by our man Chad at Detroit Tuned and MINIs on the Mac (Spoiler: they did not break the record). It will be hoot!