Welcome to Motoring Alliance, a community for MINI owners and enthusiasts from all over the world. Many of you are probably wondering why with all the sites currently available I wanted to create a new one. As a passionate MINI owner, I am a member of many of these sites and for the past year or so, I was an admin on NAM. I resigned from the admin position and created a new site as I didn’t like the direction the site was headed with the new owners. I tried to effect change from the inside but when that did not work I figured the best thing was to do something about it, hence MotoringAlliance.com.
What does Motoring Alliance offer that the other sites do not?
Motoring Alliance is new and at first glance looks like any forum based on the vBulletin product. A peek under the bonnet reveals a bit more. My day job is creating, documenting and testing vBulletin add-on products. I’ve taken the knowledge learned there along with some of things others I’ve spoken to want to see and tried to put them all in one place. You will find a MINI Library with product reviews, how-to articles and white papers on experimental ideas. This will grow over time. Motoring Alliance welcomes your contributions to growing and expanding the MINI Library. Authors will be compensated for their contributions, please
contact me for details.
Motoring Alliance is also building a wheel database called WheelFinder. This fully searchable database is the creation of our members. Everyone can contribute by listing his or her aftermarket or OEM wheels. The beauty of the database is the search function. Sure, it will take some time to build, but in time you will be able to break down a search to something like…Show me all the 1st gen Convertible S’s in Chili Red with black wheels that have a polished lip and offset range of +40 - +45. With your help, we can quickly build the Motoring Alliance WheelFinder to be an invaluable source.
Motoring Alliance is also building out a fully functional searchable and indexed Help system. Other sites have basic Help functions but few have taken the time to created full documentation on how to post images inline, how to change signatures and all the little functions available if you only know about them.
Who owns Motoring Alliance?
I do. I am the sole proprietor of Motoring Alliance. I’m a car guy and a MINI enthusiast. My inbox is always open to hear what you think, positive or negative I want to hear it all.
Nathan@motoringalliance.com For years on many forums I’ve used the name gnatster, for Motoring Alliance I will use Nathan as my screen name.
Motoring Alliance is run with the help of other admins and moderators. Unlike other sites where the staff are all volunteers the site staff of Motoring Alliance will be compensated for their time and effort once profitability has been reached.
Does it cost anything to be a member of Motoring Alliance?
No, membership is free. Motoring Alliance does sell advertising space on the site but it will never be intrusive. Motoring Alliance from time to time may offer goods such as Tee Shirts, Badges and Stickers. You will never be required to purchase any of these for all levels of site access while on my watch. I am exploring the possibility of creating a Premium Membership but that will not offer any greater access than being a registered member.
How does Motoring Alliance support the community?
Motoring Alliance believes in giving back as well. The site is hosted in Texas on servers 100% powered on Wind Energy. See
Green Web Hosting - 130% Texas Wind Powered Web Hosting provided by HostGator.com for details.
Motoring Alliance will also donate 10% of all pre-tax profits to charitable organizations on a yearly basis. Contact me please if your club holds an event where the proceeds go to a charitable group.
What if I have other questions?
Contact me at
Nathan@motoringalliance.com I will endeavor to answer all correspondence.
With your help and support Motoring Alliance can grow into a site that is helpful to all.
Thanks to…
I’d like to thank those that have helped early on with the site by providing direction, advice, guidance and had the guts to be Founding Sponsors to help me get this site up and running.
Art Direction – Tüls
Logo, avatars and other graphics – Rally@StanceDesign
Library Setup – Ryephile - Steve
vBulletin Products and integration assistance –
Drive Thru Online
Functionality Testing – To many to list but everyone deserves a big round of applause and a hearty Thanks for finding the show stopping issues ya’ll found.
Founding Sponsors – Please support them!! CravenSpeed Detroit Tuned MINICorsa Mr Dimple ShowCar Detailing Stance Design Texas Speedwerks Way Motor Works Whalen Shift Machine
Thanks,
Nathan Freedenberg
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