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 […]
Is the MINI Rocketman – the ‘Mini’ MINI – finally heading for production as an EV?
The MINI Rocketman arrived as a compact MINI Concept back in 2011, and reports are it’s now going to go in to production in China. It’s not exactly hard to work out that the current generation of the MINI is absolutely huge compared to the Alec Issigonis original Mini. And don’t get us started on […]
It’s the MINI ELECTRIC – Modest Price, Modest Range
The MINI Electric is revealed as BMW finally gets an electric MINI ready to go, with a relatively modest price and an equally modest range. We had a tease last month for the ELECTRIC Mini Cooper S E as BMW finally gets round to delivering what should be the perfect urban runaround. And here its […]
ELECTRIC Mini Cooper S E Teased ahead of reveal next month
The electric MINI Cooper SE is teased ahead of a reveal in July, the first proper production electric MINI as BMW rolls down the EV road. It’s getting on for two years since the MINI Electric Concept was revealed ahead of the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show but now, finally, MINI is close to debuting the […]
MINI John Cooper Works Clubman and JCW Countryman now with 302bhp
MINI has overhauled the John Cooper Works Countryman and Clubman models for 2019, including a huge power hike to 302bhp. The MINI John Cooper Works Clubman Estate and John Cooper Works Countryman SUV have been overhauled for 2019, but it’s a bit more than the usual new bumpers, new wheels, new lights and a bit […]
The 2019 MINI Clubman FACELIFT – can you spot the changes?
The MINI Clubman – MINI’s estate – gets a facelift for 2019 and debuts at the Shanghai Motor Show. But the updates are tough to spot. We’re not entirely sure you can call the tiny tweaks MINI has wrought to the 2019 Clubman Estate a facelift – they’re more of a lunchtime non-surgical tweak than […]
Swind E Classic Mini – It’s an ELECTRIC Classic Mini for £79k
British Technology company Swind has take the classic Mini and turned it in to the Swind E Classic Mini, with electric powertrain and a £79,000 price tag. Some classic Minis can now fetch serious money, and some companies – like David Brown – have ‘remastered’ the Mini to make it modern without losing the essence of […]
New MINI 60 Years Edition celebrates 60 years of Mini / MINI
New MINI Cooper S 60 Years Edition arrives to celebrate 60 years of the Mini / MINI Brand, with just 500 units in British Racing Green. We’re not entirely sure that Alec Issigonis would recognise today’s MINI as the descendant of the little urban runaround he created in the 1950s, but whether today’s MINI is a […]
MINI John Cooper Works BACK from its WLTP sojourn
Production he MINI John Cooper Works had to be temporarily halted earlier this year as it fell foul of WLTP emission testing, but it’s back for 2019. The WLTP tests for car emissions and economy, which came in to force in September, has impacted on many car makers as they failed to get their cars ready […]