The annual What Car? Reliability Survey has named MG as the most unreliable brand in the UK, with MINI the most reliable. We’re always told – in endless surveys – that Land Rover is the most unreliable car brand (here and here, for example) or in the bottom two, but the annual What Car? Reliability […]
Electric MINI Aceman John Cooper Works LEAKED ahead of October debut
The electric MINI Aceman JCW is revealed by China’s MIIT ahead of an official debut at the Paris Motor Show on 14 October. It’s just a few days since we saw the first photos – and published a bunch of information – on the new MINI John Cooper Works E ahead of a debut at […]
MINI John Cooper Works E Electric Hot Hatch LEAKED ahead of October debut
The MINI John Cooper Works E – MINI’s new electric Hot Hatch – is leaked online ahead of a debut in October in Paris. It’s almost exactly a year since MINI revealed the new electric MINI, and the next instalment in the MINI EV story is the arrival in October of the MINI John Cooper […]
MINI John Cooper Works Electric Prototype heading for Goodwood dynamic debut
The next up in MINI’s drive down the EV road is the MINI John Cooper Works E, heading for Goodwood in Prototype guise for a dynamic debut. MINI has been busy of late delivering a new MINI Electric and updating the ICE MINI to look the same as the Electric MINI despite being based on […]
MINI Cooper 5-Door is MINI’s stretched Cooper – and it’s petrol only
The MINI Cooper 5-Door arrives as a stretched version of the MINI Cooper, with a choice of two petrol engines and prices from £24,050. The new MINI Electric arrived last Autumn as MINI delivered an all-new electric MINI with a new EV platform as it moves down the EV road. But it’s not the electric […]
New MINI John Cooper Works – first look at the new ICE version
The new petrol-powered MINI John Copper Works is revealed in camouflaged ‘PRO’ guise ahead of a debut at the Nurburgring next week. We’ve got a new petrol-powered MINI, based on the previous ICE MINI, and we’ve got a new electric MINI too. Now it’s time to start delivering performance versions of the two new MINIs, […]
Electric MINI Aceman arrives to plug the gap between the MINI Cooper and MINI Countryman
The new electric MINI Aceman arrives to plug the gap between the MINI Cooper and MINI Countryman with a choice of two EV powertrains. We first saw the MINI Aceman as a concept back in 2022, got our first proper look at the production version back in February when MINI sent us photos of a […]
New MINI Aceman – MINI’s ‘Baby’ Countryman – puts in an early appearance
The new MINI Aceman – effectively a smaller MINI Countryman – makes an early appearance ahead of its official 214 April debut. It’s two years since MINI revealed the Aceman Concept, yet another MINI variant and one designed to sit between the regular MINI Cooper and the new MINI Countryman, with MINI announcing last month […]
MINI Cooper C and Cooper S arrive as petrol-powered MINIs to join the new Electric MINI
The MINI Cooper C and MINI Cooper S arrive as the petrol-powered versions of the new MINI Cooper, joining the MINI Electric. The new MINI Electric arrived last year as MINI introduced the latest generation of the MINI, and now it’s time for a new petrol-powered MINI Cooper to take centre stage and ensure MINI […]
MINI Clubman ends production after 55 years. Or is it 64 years?
The MINI Clubman – the MINI ‘Estate’ – ends production ahead of the new ‘Countryman Light’ – the new MINI Aceman. As car makers dive headlong into new ranges of EVs, nameplates which have been around for generations are biting the dust, although, in some instances, long-forgotten nameplates are making a bit of a comeback. […]