I may be in the market for a used MINI and I was wondering if there was an easy place to find things such as which years each colors were produced (e.g. "Cool Blue was made from 2005 to 2007"), or what exactly was included in the premium package for an S in 2004. Or thing like how to tell real leather from leatherette, and so on.

Is there an easy place to find these things?

 

I can usually find this sort of information on this site using Google. I type in "northamericanmotoring OTHERKEYWORDS" and usually find some good threads.

There is a Mini Cooper page at wiki.com:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Cooper

And NAM's buzzcut has an excellent Mini resource:
http://www.soopercooperinfo.com/

Regarding colors, the abbreviation page might be helpful:
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...eat-sheet.html

 

Or you can use the google advanced search function:

search term site:northamericanmotoring.com

 

Thanks, both of you! So if I wanted to find out which years Cool Blue was produced, I could type: cool blue years produced site: northamericanmotoring.com?

Also, is there any site that will tell me how many of each color car were made, stuff like that?

 

There's a lot of stuff here: http://libraryofmotoring.info/index.html

According to that site, Cool Blue was produced from '05 to '07.