UNFOUNDED RUMOR - Mini Magazine to close?

[mab01uk]

If anyone is interested I have a 300 page Miniworld Features Index from 1991 to 2008 in Word and PDF file format...if you PM me your email address I will send you a copy. It came from Monty Watkins when he was editor.....I don't think they make updated versions widely available as it would of course mean many people would just refer to old issues rather than buy new mags or subscribe, especially for the technical articles which get repeated for new readers over the years....

[Clubman gt]

I used to buy both mini mags, practical classics and classics i got bored with the content of all about 5 years ago now i have boxes and boxes of mags I never read I even stopped looking at them on the shelves

[Costafortune]

Mini Magazine was good when it was published by A&S Publishing in Gloucester and edited by Gerard Hughes and later Jeff Ruggles, both serious and knowledgeable Mini guys. That would be 199? to around 2005.
As soon as it was sold to Future Publishing the downhill slide began.

There is still a market for a really good Mini mag sold worldwide. Try and do it on the cheap and it backfires.

[mab01uk]

Looks like Mini Mag is still with us...the April 2023 issue above is just out and features "60 years of the Cooper S", plus a Radford De Ville and a Wood & Pickett Margrave. Also the usual preview inside of next months May 23 issue on sale 24th March....
https://twitter.com/minimagazine?lang=en

[WMU 211G]

Looks like Mini Mag is still with us...the April 2023 issue above is just out and features "60 years of the Cooper S", plus a Radford De Ville and a Wood & Pickett Margrave. Also the usual preview inside of next months May 23 issue on sale 24th March....
https://twitter.com/minimagazine?lang=en

Interesting that the Radford & W&P are both featured in the same issue - they're both currently for sale at JD Classics...

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1525230

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1525625

[mrqcars]

888NLY my June 63 1071 S with a 1430 soon to be 1460 (engine at southams),7 port , nice to see it on the cover ! ,original fj engine also at southams being rebuilt with billet crank,billet rods and forged omega's for slow days

[66Traveller]

Looks like Mini Mag is still with us...the April 2023 issue above is just out and features "60 years of the Cooper S", plus a Radford De Ville and a Wood & Pickett Margrave. Also the usual preview inside of next months May 23 issue on sale 24th March....
https://twitter.com/minimagazine?lang=en

Interesting that the Radford & W&P are both featured in the same issue - they're both currently for sale at JD Classics...

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1525230

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1525625

Yes interesting

[Richspec]

Did nobody read the bit where it just said the 'modern' mini mag was closing. Nothing about Mini Magazine

[mab01uk]

Did nobody read the bit where it just said the 'modern' mini mag was closing. Nothing about Mini Magazine

However that was actually a link to old news from back in Autumn 2022 when the 'Modern/Performance' MINI magazine was closed at short notice and merged into the back pages of (classic) Mini Mag. That followed a brief message by Kelsey on facebook saying the mag was closing with the next issue and all Modern MINI subscribers would be automatically transferred to Mini Mag unless they cancelled their sub.
The recent report of Mini Mag closing was reported on TMF by someone who was told a planned feature on their 3 family owned Minis was now unlikely to appear in the mag. That said nothing official seems to have been announced yet....
https://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/t ... ?p=3738224

[mk1]

as this entire thread is based on unconfirmed speculation & what seems like little or no actual evidence, I am locking the thread.

Needless & unfounded speculation serves no one any good whatsoever.

Mark F