It looks like the next generation MINI Countryman will arrive in 2016 after MINI announced its contract with Magna Steyr will end then. We’ve recently had the arrival of the all new MINI, and the next year or so will see the roll-out of a succession of takes on the new MINI. But that process […]
MINI Countryman Cooper & Paceman Cooper get ALL4 4WD
MINI is extending the availability of its 4WD ALL4 platform for the Countryman range with the Countryman Cooper and Paceman Cooper getting the ALL4 option. We always find it astonishing that car makers ‘ration’ the availability of four wheel drive platforms in their cars, usually citing a ‘lack of demand’. But that lack of demand […]
MINI Countryman to be built in India
BMW has revealed that, a year after sales of the MINI started in India, production of the MINI Countryman will commence in Chennai later in 2013. Whatever you may think of the plethora of MINI spin-offs since BMW grabbed MINI more than a decade ago, no one can deny that the Germans have had even more success with […]
MINI John Cooper Works Countryman ALL4 Dakar Limited Edition
It’s another MINI limited edition model – the MINI John Cooper Works Countryman ALL4 Dakar – this time to celebrate MINI’s Dakar successes. We all know MINI loves a special edition, and it’s got to the point where there seem to be more ‘special edition’ and ‘limited edition’ MINI’s rolling out of showrooms than the bog standard […]
MINI JCW Countryman – this is the ‘Unexpected’ +video
We had a marketing video for the MINI John Cooper Works Countryman recently telling us to expect the unexpected. This video is the unexpected. MINI marketing doesn’t come out of the box marked ‘Traditional Car Promotions’. Love it or hate it, MINI marketing comes very much from left-field, and the marketing for the new MINI […]
MINI Countryman Coupe to be production version of MINI Paceman
It looks like the production version of the MINI Paceman Concept is going to be the MINI Countryman Coupe. Yes, it is hard to keep track of MINI’s models, never mind their never ending concepts. Despite that you may remember the MINI Paceman that arrived at Detroit last year and which, at the time, we […]
MINI John Cooper Works Countryman: The mad MINI marketing begins +video
With the debut of the MINI John Cooper Works Countryman at Geneva 2012, MINI starts its marketing with another off-beat video. If there’s one things that’s a certainty in the world of MINI – apart from a new variant every four days – is that any new launch gets promoted with slightly bizarre videos. And […]
MINI Countryman JCW revealed
The MINI Countryman John Cooper Works has been revealed ahead of its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March. We had MINI teasing with a glimpse of the MINI Countryman JCW playing in the snow back in December, with a few bits of camouflage tape obscuring the money shot. And now we learn that just about all […]
MINI Countryman JCW teased – heading for Geneva 2012
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 Traveller set to return
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. […]