Lots of news this week from MotoringFile and we go into quite a bit of detail about most of it.

Oh yea, a little more information about MTTS. It’s going to be fantastic this year and we believe it’s an event you are definitely going to want to add to your calendar.

The Ask Chad Mailbox is all cleared out and ready for your questions! Send those over to askchad@whiteroofradio.com to get it into the queue.

Finally, MINI of Ontario is having their grand opening party this coming Saturday! Todd and I will both be there hosting the party and will follow it up with a White Roof Radio Listener meetup. There will be details by Thursday here, on Facebook and on Twitter.

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MINI USA’s rolling festival of all things MINI is back for 2010. After sitting on lots of details over the past few months we can finally report what we know.

After much deliberation MINI USA has decided to combine the best parts of the last two events and combine them. The event will start with a handful of events around the country in major cities. From this point there will be a rally (aka a cross-country road trip similar to MTTS ‘06) from the starting point to a central location. What we can finally confirm that that central location will be Denver Colorado. Once there attendees will be treated to a two day festival including many of the activities we’ve seen at both MTTS and MINI United over the years. We expect this to culminate in a headlining concert on the last night. This final festival will take place on August 6th through the 8th.

We’re still getting details on the starting points and their associated dates but rest assured you’ll hear it all here first.

And one more thing, expect to see something not seen on US streets before. Both on the rally routes and at the event.

As you would expect MotoringFile and White Roof Radio will also be providing exclusive daily coverage of the event starting with the kick off parties and ending in Denver. So, even if you can’t make it, we’ll have you covered.

If you have attended MTTS in the past you already know how cool it is. This years is shaping up to be the best yet.

Stay tuned to MotoringFile and White Roof Radio for updates as they happen.

For tonight, we covered a few of the stories from Motoringfile.com and close out MTTS.

Now that MTTS is finished, be prepared for us to focus our energy on MINI United 2009, happening in England. If you don’t have a passport, now is a great time to get that taken care of. And, as more details become available, we will have them first!

Woofcast 261: Download audio file (woof261.mp3)

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If you missed any of our MTTS Coverage, you can find it all here, my photos from LA here and photos from the East Coast trip here.

it’s been a lot of fun this year and we hope you were able to join in on some of it! Big thanks to the folks at MINIUSA and RA Events for not only running such a great event, but for having us along and being so hospitable!

We are back tomorrow night with our first Woofcast in a while and normal service should resume this week.

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To help celebrate, MINIUSA and RA Events went out and got us a cake. Then, brought us on stage Saturday afternoon before Vertical Horizon to get everyone to sing happy birthday. It was very awesome!

Thanks to everyone for listening and staying with us! Here’s to 3 more years.

Watch for the last of our MTTS coverage coming up this week.

Including an interview with Harold Stanfield, who has 281,000 miles on his MINI. And its Silk Green! He didn’t even replace and brakes until after 180K miles. Amazing. So concludes our Chicago coverage.

Only 1 MTTS stop left. Both Todd and I will be there and it’s looking to be a great party! Keep an eye out for 1 more update about LA later today.

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It’s a great conversation about a car we don’t yet get but everyone (it would appear) wants. Hopefully they will have it in LA for us to check out.

Watch later in the week for more from Chicago from Todd.

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We got the chance to talk to some listeners and about the event. I think you’ll enjoy this. I have since talked to Todd on the phone and he tells me he has some great stuff coming up for you later in the week, including an interview with the man that has the highest mileage MINI in the United States. Should be awesome!

Don’t forget to stick around next weekend too for the last MINI Takes the States stop from LA! If you are going, be sure to look us up (details to follow later in the week).

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Be sure to stick around all weekend for updates from Chicago and Road America! Maybe even an interview or three.

And, if you have missed any of our past coverage of MTTS, you can find it all here. Also, be sure to keep an eye out for another LA update this weekend or early next week!

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Those are coming up quick! Chicago is July 25-27 and LA is August 1-3. There is still plenty of time to get get registered. Remember, registering get you a very cool bag of swag, access to all of the events, including being able to drive a JCW MINI on the AutoX course they have set up at each event! It’s a lot of fun gang and I highly recommend it!

If you have any questions about the upcoming events leave them below. Gina will be keeping an eye out for them and provide answers toward the end of next week.

Finally, don’t forget that the LA event also marks the 3rd anniversary of White Roof Radio. Both Todd and myself will be there and we will be ready to make party. Come join us!

Update. For those of you that are wondering, the hotels for LA will The Westin and The Hilton, both in Pasadena. Watch for updates to the MTTS site later today.

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News of the week from Motoringfile.com, but since it was mostly MTTS related, we recapped the week instead.

We had a great week and you’ve seen most of it. To recap, we posted over 700 photos, over an hour of video and almost 2 hour of audio! Thanks everyone for checking it out or coming by to say during the event. It was great to meet you all!

Planning to attend Chicago or LA? Don’t forget to register. They also posted quite a few updates during Miami and Boston that you can see here.

Check back tomorrow for the JCW show. You aren’t going to want to miss it!

Woofcast 253: Download audio file (woof253.mp3)

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Some of you have asked about the MINI we drove. We had an Astro Black R56 S with body colored roof, sunroof and automatic transmission. Yes, we know we are Whiteroofradio. I think someone at MINI USA was having a little bit of fun with us.

This is the last of the audio and there is quite a bit of it. I still have more coming in the shape of video and photos, so you can watch for those later today.

And, if you are wanting to go to either of the remaining MTTS events (like I know you are), be sure to take a minute and register. You can subscribe while you are there and get all of the updates MINIUSA was posting as well.

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Exclusive! The Factory JCW will be getting the burble exhaust sound back as was on late R53 models. This is great news and you can see and hear for yourself at your local dealer starting July 14.

If you have the chance to test drive the MINI JCW you must take the opportunity but if you are a fan of the JCW you better get your order in now. Starting July 14 MINI will begin delivering the MINI JCW to U.S. dealers for some eager early adopters. The MINI JCW will be making appearances at the remaining MTTS events in Chicago and LA in late July and early August.

Oh yea, and Tony the Peanut Man! Awe. Some. If you don’t know you’d better ax somebody!

The journey continues onward to Boston. Watch for more stuff coming.

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Little did Rauno know, but Todd kept the recorder running a little longer than the actual interview, so we also got him talking about traction and how it applies to the MINI. He is brilliant!

Enjoy.

By the way, you have registered, right? If you are planning to attend MTTS Boston, Chicago or LA, make sure you do that now!

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So far so good. Our internet connectivity has been lacking this week, which is why the delay.

We have even more audio coming, including some time with Rauno Aaltonen that you are going to love!

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We are off to get Day 2 started! Until I get a chance to get them organized and posted, you can view the photos on my Flickr stream. You can get a sneak peak at the videos here as well.

There will be more later! Plus, we will be making an attempt and doing something live from Homestead! Keep an eye on my Twitter for updates.

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Before going further, do make sure you have registered for the MTTS event you are going to be attending. Besides saving $10, you will get a bag of swag for sure and the proceedes go to local charities. Win-win in my book!

Now, to keep up with all of the action.

• All photos will be on my Flickr, in the MTTS 2008 Flickr group and on Todd’s Flickr
• All videos will be posted to Whiteroof.tv for download and Vidder to watch
• Updates, as they happen, will come from Twitter, including when we broadcast live via uStream.tv
• All audio will, of course, be up on WRR for download with a player on Motoringfile.com.

To make things easier, I have set up a special RSS feed (actually it’s ATOM, but it will work in any reader) that will aggregate Twitter, Flickr, WRR and WR.tv. You can subscribe to that here.

I have already posted our possible live schedule here in case you missed it. Keep in mind that this is very tentative and is very much subject to change. This is where twitter will come in handy to keep up-to-date should things change.

Stay tuned! things are just getting warmed up!

All that being said, here is our tentative live show schedule for MTTS Miami, Boston and all places in between. All times are EST and subject to change without us saying a damned thing about it.

• Saturday, June 14th – Live from Homestead at 3:00 EST
• Sunday, June 15th – MTTS Wrap up, Live @ 1:30 EST
• Monday, June 16th – Live@12:00est from the car
• Tuesday, June 17th – Live from the road @ 12:00EST
• Wednesday, June 18th – Live from the road @ 12:00 EST
• Thursday, June 19th – Live from the road @12:00 EST
• Friday, June 20th – Live from the road @12:00 EST
• Saturday, June 21st – Live from MTTS grounds # 3:00 EST
• Sunday, June 22nd – We are hoping for something special at around 1:30 EST

The best way to keep up is to follow me via Twitter or keep an eye on my FriendFeed. I’ll post updates and announcements along the way to keep you up-to-date!

Besides the live shows, we will still be posting audio, video and photos at all the usual places.

Along the way from Miami to Boston we would like to meet as many of you will come out to see us. Let us know! We are already meeting up with a couple of clubs and would like to have all of those details hammered out by early next week so we can get that posted as well.

See you next week!