This past week the MINI WRC team launched in style with a fantastic event at MINI Plant Oxford. Rally legends and invited guests were able to enjoy a tour through the MINI’s successful history in motorsport before the new WRC cars were officially unveiled. However, even if you didn’t get an invite to the event [...]
After months of rumors, MINI has finally taken the wraps off of the MINI Rolls Royce collaboration: the MINI Goodwood. The concept is simple; bring Rolls Royce levels of refinement and luxury to a package that is smaller and more energy efficient. The car has been thoroughly reworked by Rolls Royce Design to create the [...]
Today at Plant Oxford, with motorsport legends Paddy Hopkirk and Rauno Aaltonen in attendance, MINI officially took the wraps off of the new rally car in it’s final livery. Dressed in the traditional BMC racing colors, and wearing the legendary number 37 carried so proudly by 33 EJB back in 1966, the new factory team [...]
MINI is celebrating an historic success in the five-day Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, which started on April 3rd and finished on April 7th. It marked an historic achievement for the Monster Energy sponsored X-raid team. The MINI All4 Racing was triumphant less than three months after its first appearance in the Dakar Rally. The two [...]
It was a month of bests for the BMW Group. The group in total sold more cars (many, many more) than ever before in a calendar month worldwide. That translated into each brand, BMW, MINI and Rolls Royce having their best month of sales ever. But it gets even better if you look at year [...]
Spring has arrived and suddenly new MINI models are springing up everywhere! Vigilant photographers from Auto Express have snapped the clearest pictures yet of a pair of camouflaged MINI Coupes, ahead of the launch date later this year. But these aren’t just another set of images, they confirm that a hot John Cooper Works model [...]
Secret spy photographers working for Autoblog have spotted a very interesting vehicle cold weather testing in Sweden; a hybrid MINI. At first I thought I was seeing things, but there is literally a yellow sign on the window that reads “HYBRID”. Autoblog is also reporting that the system being tested is actually an AWD system [...]
The annual show at Brooklands is a great way to kick-off the MINI season and I do my very best to get there each year. As always, P&SMOC had one of the largest and most impressive stands. Each year the Brooklands Museum Trust arranges this huge static show at the remains of the historic Brooklands [...]
