MINI has revealed their third ‘London’ MINI in quick succession - the MINI Highgate Convertible – as London 2012 approaches. We all know MINI like a special edition or three. And usually they manage to spread them out a bit. But the new MINI special edition revealed this morning – the MINI Highgate Convertible – is the third [...]
Two new MINI Special Editions named after London districts arrive in the form of the MINI Baker Street and MINI Bayswater. MINI decided around this time last year that they would name all future limited editions after London districts, since which time we’ve had the MINI Hampton and MINI Pimlico followed by the MINI Soho and even the [...]
Following on from the US MINI Recall, MINI UK is to recall 29,000 MINI Cooper S and MINI JCW models to fix a faulty circuit board. Yesterday we reported that MINI in the US is to recall 89,000 MINI Coopers to fix a faulty circuit board on the turbo’s auxiliary water pump, and we now learn [...]
Following an investigation started in October, BMW in the US has issued a recall for 88,911 MINI Coopers built between 2007 and 2011. Back in October we reported that the MINI Cooper S was under investigation in the US after a spate of fires. ‘Spate’ may be a bit strong as, at that time, there had been [...]
BMW are set to revive the Mini Van, with a MINI Clubman based MINI Cargo debuting at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. We’ve got the regular MINI and the MINI Clubman. We’ve got the MINI Coupe and the MINI Roadster. We’ve even got the overgrown MINI Countryman SUV. So what’s missing? A MINI Van, of [...]
MINI in the US ran a competition to describe the best test drive ever. The winner had his vision created as a commercial for the MINI Coupe. MINI in the US has been running a competition to promote the MINI Coupe, asking entrants to describe the best test drive ever. Which you would think would revolve around [...]
MINI has started the tease for the most powerful Countryman – the MINI Countryman JCW – which will debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. It’s not exactly a surprise that the MINI Countryman JCW is on the way. After all, MINI will never knowingly miss a niche sale, so producing a John Cooper Works [...]
MINI launches the MINI Yours customisation programme with a new Prêt-à-Porter custom MINI – the MINI Avenue. We already know that MINI seems to launch more limited editions every year than the whole of the rest of the car industry. But now they’re going a step further with a customisation programme called ‘MINI Yours’, and an off-the-peg version [...]
The production version of the new MINI Roadster was officially revealed at the weekend with a huge photo gallery, and we now get video of the Roadster in Istanbul. Hold the front page! The MINI Roadster moves. Sunday morning saw the release of a raft of information on the new MINI Roadster – which will arrive in [...]
With the MINI Roadster due in Spring 2012, we have over 200 official Roadster photos, Specifications and UK prices. Starts at £18,015. With the MINI Coupe hitting the roads just about now, next in line for MINI is the MINI Roadster, with the soft-top, two-seat MINI due to hit UK showrooms in the Spring. As [...]
With almost every other territory already having the MINI on sale, BMW is to cover one of the last markets for MINI with a MINI launch in India in early 2012. For some reason, we assumed that the MINI was already sold in India. But it isn’t. But from early 2012 you’ll be able to pop down [...]
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the MINI Cooper S over reports of fires in 2007-2008 cars. The MINI has been a big success in the US, and an even bigger success when you consider the American penchant for cars the size of a small aircraft carrier. And one of the favourite MINIs in the US is the [...]
MINI has launched a Special Edition to celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games. Available in Red, White or Blue, the MINI London is limited to 2012 cars. The launch of the MINI London 2012 Edition to celebrate the Olympic Games neatly pulls together two of MINI’s marketing tactics; shove out as many limited edition models as [...]
MINI has revealed their latest ‘London’ Limited Edition – The MINI Soho – available as the SOHO Cooper Hatch and Soho Cooper Convertible. In case you’d forgotten, MINI decided earlier this year that all their Limited Edition would be named after London Boroughs, districts and landmarks. Hence the new Limited Edition MINI arrival gets the [...]
MINI are planning on building a modern four-door MINI Traveller, essentially a MINI Countryman without the SUV aspirations. You’d forgotten about the MINI Traveller, hadn’t you? Or maybe, as we foolishly did, you assumed that as the Countryman and Traveller were the same thing MINI would leave the Traveller moniker in the history books. No chance. [...]
BMW announces that the first MINI Coupe has rolled off the production line at Cowley. First customer cars in UK due October. We’ve only recently had the reveal of the new MINI Coupe – well, the production car reveal, that is. We had the first reveal of the MINI Coupe Concept nearly two years ago and, despite the production [...]
We have a spy photo of the MINI JCW Roadster pounding round the Nurburgring ahead of an imminent production model reveal – at Frankfurt or maybe sooner. Now we’ve got the MINI Coupe out in the open, with and without its swirly black and white camouflage, it must be close to MINI doing the same with the [...]
MINI has revealed that it’s Rolls Royce makeover of the MINI Cooper S – the MINI ‘Inspired by Goodwood’ will cost £41k. The first MINI Goodwood Edition cars will arrive in March 2012. We did wonder, tongue in cheek, when BMW revealed they were making the MINI Roller – the MINI ‘Inspired by Goodwood’ – if we [...]
MINI are taking the Mini John Cooper Works Coupe Endurance to the Nurburgring 24 Hours this weekend. We have video and photos. It did take a while to drag the MINI Coupe – screaming and kicking – in to the limelight. Too shy to arrive fully formed, MINI revealed the Coupe at the start of the [...]
Just days after the new MINI Coupe got revealed we have the first MINI Coupe Video ‘Another Day. Another Adventure’. Well, it wouldn’t be MINI without a new video to promote the MINI Coupe. Just days after we finally got the MINI Coupe sans camouflage – and with a gazillion photos to go with it – MINI are already on to the [...]
MINI has finally done the decent thing and revealed the MINI Coupe in all its glory. Starting at £16.5k, it goes on sale in the UK in October. It’s been an odd debut – the MINI Coupe. We had the ‘Concept’ version of MINI’s two-seat sporty job back at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009. That was [...]
BMW has announced it is to invest a further £500 million in the UK over the next three years to build the next generation MINI. What’s going on? Two days on the trot we get good news about the UK economy. Yesterday we reported that Nissan are to invest £192 million to design and build [...]
MINI has revealed the 2012 MINI Coupe – complete with residual camouflage – ahead of a debut at Frankfurt. We were going to say that the 2012 MINi Coupe had been revealed. But as MINI has decided, for reasons we fail to fathom, they should reveal it with camouflage we thought it would be a [...]
It’s being reported that the MINI ‘Inspired by Goodwood’ Rolls Royce treatment will extend throughout the MINI range. We finally got the MINI by Rolls Royce – The MINI Inspired by Goodwood – at this year’s Shanghai Motor Show, although it had been on the cards for a couple of years. ‘Inspired by Goodwood’ is a bit [...]
MINI has revealed the MINI Inspired by Goodwood, a ‘bespoke’ MINI with Rolls Royce levels of kit and debuting at Shanghai. Expect it to cost around £50k The MINI by Rolls Royce has been coming for a long time. We first spied the Rolls Royce MINI back in 2009 and even then we were told it would [...]
