MINI has teamed up with OVO Energy as its energy partner and is offering free electricity for the first 5,000 miles of charging at home for MINI Electric buyers. A few months ago, Volvo announced free electricity to buyers of their Plug-in Recharge Electric cars in a cunning plan to get owners – especially business […]
MINI Convertible Sidewalk Edition – an EXPENSIVE way to buy a MINI Cooper S Convertible
MINI is kicking-off the New Year with the MINI Convertible Sidewalk Edition, a limited-run MINI Cooper S Convertible costing £34,215. We’re not entirely sure the start of January is the right time to pitch a limited edition MINI Convertible – especially a rather expensive one – but that’s what MINI are doing. On offer is […]
MINI Electric: 78,000 prospective buyers put their name down for the electric MINI
The MINI electric – the MINI Cooper SE in Europe – has now garnered 78,000 potential buyers ahead of going on sale officially in March 2020. It’s four months since the MINI Electric was revealed as MINI’s first proper production electric car, and it looks very promising in a ‘fit for purpose’ kind of way. […]
New MINI GP John Cooper Works costs £34,995 and debuts in Los Angeles this month
The new MINI GP John Cooper Works will debut at the Los Angeles Motor Show this month, with the 3,000 run of cars costing £34,995. The latest MINI GP John Cooper Works has an outing at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the summer, suitably camouflaged and teasing the arrival of a limited-run production model. […]
MINI Electric ‘Proves’ it’s not just an Urban EV
MINI decided the best way to prove the new MINI Electric wasn’t just an urban EV was to drive it from Munich to Frankfurt with a single recharge on the way. The MINI Electric was revealed in July – although it’s the MINI Cooper SE outside the UK – as MINI finally returned to electric […]
David Brown Automotive’s Mini Remastered Oselli Edition is a £100k reborn Mini
David Brown Automotive, purveyors of remastered classics, delivers a new performance take on their Mini Remastered – the Mini Remastered Oselli Edition. David Brown Automotive started off by taking the underpinnings of a Jaguar XK and clothing them in Aston Martin inspired panels to create a car – the Speedback GT – which looks like […]
Thinking of buying a new MINI? You should get this instead.
A 1968 Mk1 Morris Minor-Mini Super De Luxe with just 271 miles from new – and still with its plastic seat covers – is up for sale. The last ‘new’ Mini Mk1? The Mini/MINI turned 60 years old last month and, although the current MINI bears little resemblance to the original 1959 Mini, it continues […]
The Mini is 60 years old today – 26 August 2019
It’s 60 years ago today that Alec Issigonis’ Mini was first revealed, changing the car world for ever with its innovative design and compact dimensions. Happy Birthday Mini. It’s easy to forget, exactly 60 years on from the day the Mini was first revealed, just how innovative it was. Not only did Alec Issigonis’ Mini […]
MINI ELECTRIC has 45,000 orders ahead of production start
The recently revealed MINI Electric – MINI Cooper SE in Europe – has already garnered more than 45,000 orders since it was announced in July. MINI has been playing with an electric version for a very long time, but now we’re about to see a proper electric MINI you can actually buy. Revealed last month, […]
MINI celebrates the 10 MILLIONTH MINI (although over half were ‘Minis’)
The 10 Millionth MINI has rolled off the production line in MINI’s 60th year of production, with almost half the 10 million the BMW MINI. It’s 60 years since the Mini launched as Alec Alec Issigonis’ revolutionary design re-defined what a small car could be. By a happy coincidence, MINI production has also hit a […]