The MINI Clubman City arrives as an entry-level Clubman aimed at business and fleet buyers, with low emissions, low BIK and a business focused spec. The MINi Clubman, the MINI estate, is a proper lifestyle car, interested more in coaxing MINI owners to stick with the brand when they grow up and have children. And it […]
MINI 25th Anniversary Convertible celebrates 25 years of drop-top Minis
The MINI 25th Anniversary Convertible arrives as a special edition MINI convertible to celebrate 25 years since the first Mini Cabriolet arrived. Just 300 units priced at £32,995. The once weekly arrival of a new MINI special Edition model has slowed to a bit of a trickle since the latest MINI arrived, but the 25th anniversary […]
BMW reveals the ELECTRIC MINI – but it’s not what you’d expect
BMW has revealed the electric Mini in New York, but this electric Mini is a classic Mini complete with an electric powertrain. Perhaps the perfect urban EV? Update: After a bit of digging we’ve discovered just how petite the electric powertrain of this classic Mini is. Just 38bhp from its electric motor powered by 30 […]
2018 MINI gets more tech and new DCT option
The 2018 MINI – Hatch, five-door and Convertible – gets additional tech, more customisation, LED lights and a new optional seven-speed DCT gearbox. MINI is giving its range – hatchback, five-door and convertible – a bit of a makeover for 2018 including, for the first time, the arrival of a dual-clutch automatic gearbox. All MINIs […]
MINI to offer 3D Printed accessories for new levels of customisation (+ video)
MINI is turning to 3D printing to allow customers to design bespoke side scuttles, trims, illuminated door sills and LED door projectors for their car. Individual customisation of new cars has become the buzz fo a lot of car makers, and an easy way to top up the asking price of a new car and improve […]
MINI goes minimalist with a new LOGO – it’s back to the 1990s
BMW has decided that MINI need a new logo to move the brand forward, and it’s a flat interpretation of the Mini logo from the 1990s. Ever since MINI was revived by BMW in 2001 it’s had pretty much the same logo, with a three dimensional set of wings at each side of a circular […]
Ringo Starr’s Mini Cooper S Radford – now owned by a Spice Girl
Ringo Starr’s 1966 Mini Cooper S Radford has sold at Bonham’s auction for £102,000, bought by former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell. Last month we reported that Ringo Starr’s 1966 Mini Cooper S Radford was going across the block at Bonham’s December auction and expected to make around £100k. The estimate was bang on the nose, […]
Ringo Starr’s 1966 Mini Cooper S Radford up for sale – and it’s a HATCHBACK
A 1966 Mini Cooper S with Radford conversion – originally owned by the Beatles Ringo Starr – is up for sale and expected to fetch over £100,000. The quartet of Minis bought by Brain Epstein for the Beatles – as a thank-you for making him very wealthy – are well known, with the possibly the […]
Grab ‘Twiggy’s’ 1960 Morris Mini for (probably) less than £10k
A 1960 Morris Mini, made famous by Twiggy and Marks and Spencer is up for auction at Classic Car Auctions and expected to fetch £8-10k. If any car epitomises the 1960s it’s the original Mini – Austin and Morris – and if any one person personifies 1960s Swinging London it’s probably Twiggy. So put the […]
BMW look to be hedging their bets with plans to build MINI in China for export
According to reports, BMW are in talks with China’s Great Wall to build the MINI in China, not just for local sales but for export too. The MINI (or Mini, as it was) is a British icon, and BMW has succeeded in re-inventing it without losing the essential ‘Britishness’ which has made it so successful. […]