Wayne Carini is a passionate automobile collector, master car-restorer, and popular television personality. He has been chasing classic cars on television for over 15 years. But, in reality it has…
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Road Trip: From the Big Easy to the Big D with hundreds of MINI owners
The fog that obscured my vision on the morning of Monday, July 16th was not the result of a rare weather phenomenon in New Orleans. It was a by-product of…
Destination Road America: Vintage Racing and the Lexus RC350
There was a time when racing mattered. When an appearance in the winner’s circle on Sunday meant cars would fly out of the showroom on Monday. In the late 1960s…
The Weather and then IMSA Make A Mess Of Things In Elkhart Lake
It was supposed to be one of those idyllic August weekends in Wisconsin. Three days of beautiful scenery, bratwurst, and great racing because the IMSA Continental Tire Road Race Showcase…
Mastering the Brickyard and getting Miles Ahead in a MINI
Driving schools are all the rage now. It seems that every manufacturer of cars with sporting credentials has one, and given the amount of horsepower they are putting in their…
BMW Presents the Motorcycle of the Future: No Helmet Required
When Hollywood makes movies about the future it usually comes in one of two flavors. It’s either a post-apocalyptic war zone where inhabitants fight over the few remaining precious resources,…
London’s Roundhouse Theatre began life as a humble train shed with a turntable used to put locomotives in the right direction on the right track. It had outlived its original…
Mini steps can lead to big change. That’s what Mini Takes the States 2016 hopes to prove as they partner with Feeding America to provide 800,000 meals to families in need. MTTS…
Mini Takes The States: 48 hours with America’s most fanatical car owners
Mini Takes The States is part road trip, part jam band festival and part summer camp. And it’s the most fun I have had with a group of strangers in a while. Why? Since I was behind the wheel of a 2014 MINI Cooper S Hardtop with a John Cooper Works accessory package, I was […]
Recently we were invited to experience the new 2014 MINI Cooper and Cooper S hardtop on the narrow, winding and exquisitely beautiful country roads of Northern Puerto Rico and learned without a shadow of a doubt that size does indeed matter. The new MINI – dubbed F56 because code names are of course very cool […]