Both MotoringFile and Auto Express are reporting that MINI are working on a smaller city car. The car’s key attribute will be efficiency. We expect the highly anticipated 1.5 liter 3 cylinder engine to make it’s MINI debut in this new interpretation of the classic MINI City. With every ounce of technology at [...]
MINI has finally confirmed what was the worst-kept secret in motorsport; the MINI is to return to world-class rally competition. MINI will contest selected rounds of the 2011 World Rally Championship, marking the return of one of the sport’s most famous competitors. The new Countryman will form the basis of MINI’s rallying comeback, the four-wheel [...]
We first became aware of MINI’s intended return to rallying back in February. Well, Autosport.com has news of an impending announcement and more details about the car! Based on the new AWD Countryman platform, the first rally MINI for forty years has been developed by Prodrive at their Banbury base and will be formally launched [...]
We’ve already covered the engine and exterior design changes of next year’s range of MINI’s. Now MotoringFile is able to provide us with a first look at the substantial changes to the MINI’s interior that will arrive with 2011’s new models.
MINI will be changing from shiny silver plastics to high-grade matte black materials. However, the [...]
A lot of people reading this will have followed the MINI’s long and successful history in worldwide motor sport. In the fifty year history of the MINI, however, there cannot have been a more spectacular incident than that which occurred earlier this weekend at the Queensland Raceway in Brisbane. During a race in Australia’s MINI [...]
For the third year running the current iteration of the MINI Cooper has been named by the influential Kelley Blue Book website as one of the top ten greenest cars you can buy. The MINI Cooper on sale today first appeared in 2008 and was immediately praised for underlining the brand’s commitment to being environmentally [...]
Last week, the invaluable MotoringFile revealed that work may have begun on a Hydrogen-powered MINI. Recently, BMW’s Technik division celebrated its 25th anniversary with a slew of photos of the super secret division’s work and one thing tucked away within the photos and information was a small piece on a very recent BMW test car [...]
No, this isn’t the much-anticipated WRC car. This is the Schirra MINI built for the 24-hour VLN series race at the Nürburgring and snapped by Oliver Wegen for his BigBlogg. Everything from Ferraris to twenty-year-old BMW’s compete in this series so this MINI must be putting out a frightening amount of BHP to be able [...]
You may recall an earlier article in which my MINI and I participated in a photoshoot and interview for Modern MINI magazine. Well, the latest issue of the magazine has just been published and we take pride of place alongside Richard Weare’s amazing carbon-fibre Cooper and the magazine’s new project car. Pick yourself up a [...]
What better way to explore the great city of London than in a Classic MINI? A fledgling company called smallcarBIGCITY provides sightseeing tours of our great capital city in a MINI. The cars are also available for weddings and private hire.
Formed in December 2008 by three eager young entrepreneurs, the company is not just surviving [...]
