FAMILY-SIZE PLUG-IN HYBRIDS By Barbara & Bill Schaffer Each year members of the Northwest Automotive Press Association meet to evaluate some of the latest and […]
January 28, 2018 | B. Schaffer
2018 Mini Cooper S E Countryman ALL4 Test Drive
By Barbara & Bill Schaffer With the automotive market stampeding to electrify products, it?s sometimes difficult to keep up with what?s available. Until recently, there […]
November 8, 2017 | B. Schaffer
2017 NWAPA Run to the Sun Part 2
Lexus LC 500 to Volkswagen Jetta GLI By Bill Schaffer Mount Hood ? Here are the cars from the Lexus LC 500 to the Volkswagen […]
July 9, 2012 | B. Schaffer
Mini Announces a Seventh Model
In a surprise announcement before a thousand fans at the start of the sixth annual, 3,900-mile cross-country rally, Mini Chief Executive Kay Sigler said, ?You […]
June 22, 2012 | B. Schaffer
Mudfest 2012 – Part 1
By Barbara & Bill Schaffer After two full days of driving briskly between hundreds of traffic cones, cruising along wooded back roads and wallowing through […]
July 10, 2011 | Iveho
MINI Performance Handbook Author Considers the 2011 MINI Countryman
Let?s start with full disclosure ? I may be the best person around to review the new MINI Countryman SUV, or I might be the […]
June 24, 2011 | B. Schaffer
Test Drive: Mini Cooper S Countryman
In our own unofficial and unscientific study of Mini Cooper owners it appears most Mini Cooper drivers are young (or at least young-at-heart), single and […]
March 18, 2011 | Arv Voss
Test Drive: 2011 MINI Cooper S Countryman ALL4
?MINI?s newest family member ? The Countryman? The fourth and latest model to join the popular and ever-growing MINI family, is the all-new Countryman, which […]
July 4, 2010 | Our Auto Expert
More Mini and AWD Too
With four doors and all-wheel drive the new Mini Countryman S will take the Mini to new heights and lengths when it rolls into dealerships […]