2009 MINI Cooper S Clubman problems

I parked my 2009 mini clubman after driving about 10 miles to the grocery store round trip and unloaded groceries, went back out to the car and it was smoking white smoke. Flames started shooting up from the engine over the windshield and it progressed from there. The smoke turned black all windows were blown out, front tires melted and blown and the car was declared an obvious total loss. It caught our home on fire and has caused more than $50,000 worth of damage. Please correct this problem.

After driving to work for 30 minutes, I parked my car. I thought I smelled something as I walked away, so I stopped an looked, but I did not see anything. Five minutes after walking into my building, someone told me my car was on fire. The first witness to see something (a co-worker) said he saw something on fire drop from the bottom of the car. When I ran outside, the car was putting off a significant amount of smoke. We tried to use a fire extinguisher, to no end, and within minutes we were seeing flames.

2009 mini clubman s... Timing chain needs replaced at 51000. 1000 miles out of warranty. Mini will not take responsibility. This is poor engineering and even poorer lack of accountability from mini for a known, documented, and very frequent problem.

I live where the weather gets into the teens regularly this time of year. My car started making a weird noise when I started in one morning. Then when I tried to drive it, it had no power. I took it in and had to have the throttle body and new intake manifold put in for the cost of over $1100. I was told by the service technician that they have only had to do this repair on mini's that live in cold climates and that it was no fault of mine. However there is no recall on this defect and I'm curious as to why?