MINI are taking the Mini John Cooper Works Coupe Endurance to the Nurburgring 24 Hours this weekend. We have video and photos. It did take a while to drag the MINI Coupe – screaming and kicking – in to the limelight. Too shy to arrive fully formed, MINI revealed the Coupe at the start of the […]
MINI Coupe: The video adventure begins
Just days after the new MINI Coupe got revealed we have the first MINI Coupe Video ‘Another Day. Another Adventure’. Well, it wouldn’t be MINI without a new video to promote the MINI Coupe. Just days after we finally got the MINI Coupe sans camouflage – and with a gazillion photos to go with it – MINI are already on to the […]
MINI Coupe: It’s official
MINI has finally done the decent thing and revealed the MINI Coupe in all its glory. Starting at £16.5k, it goes on sale in the UK in October. It’s been an odd debut – the MINI Coupe. We had the ‘Concept’ version of MINI’s two-seat sporty job back at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009. That was […]
BMW to invest £500 million in UK MINI production
BMW has announced it is to invest a further £500 million in the UK over the next three years to build the next generation MINI. What’s going on? Two days on the trot we get good news about the UK economy. Yesterday we reported that Nissan are to invest £192 million to design and build […]
2012 MINI Coupe arrives – in camouflage
MINI has revealed the 2012 MINI Coupe – complete with residual camouflage – ahead of a debut at Frankfurt. We were going to say that the 2012 MINi Coupe had been revealed. But as MINI has decided, for reasons we fail to fathom, they should reveal it with camouflage we thought it would be a […]
MINI Goodwood ‘Rolls Royce’ range to grow
It’s being reported that the MINI ‘Inspired by Goodwood’ Rolls Royce treatment will extend throughout the MINI range. We finally got the MINI by Rolls Royce – The MINI Inspired by Goodwood – at this year’s Shanghai Motor Show, although it had been on the cards for a couple of years. ‘Inspired by Goodwood’ is a bit […]
MINI Inspired by Goodwood: The MINI Rolls Royce arrives
MINI has revealed the MINI Inspired by Goodwood, a ‘bespoke’ MINI with Rolls Royce levels of kit and debuting at Shanghai. Expect it to cost around £50k The MINI by Rolls Royce has been coming for a long time. We first spied the Rolls Royce MINI back in 2009 and even then we were told it would […]
MINI: Meet the MINI Family Video
MINI has put together a decent video celebrating the entire MINI family, from MINI to Clubman, Convertible to Countryman. Many moan that MINI has become a parody under BMW, but the truth is that it’s just become an enormous success with BMW doing what BL tried to do a generation ago – and failed. BL […]
MINI Cooper All4 Hybrid Spied
We have a spy photo of a 4WD MINI Cooper All4 Hybrid out testing in the snow, although we don’t expect a hybrid MINI until 2013. What? You thought MINI had come up with every possible permutation of bodyshape, drivetrain and powerplant? Don’t be silly; not by a long way. What we appear to have […]
2012 MINI Coupe: Almost there
Judging from the almost production-ready look of this spy shot of the MINI Coupe, it looks like it’s almost ready for showrooms. It’s heading towards two years since MINI revealed the MINI Coupe at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009. Along with its twin the MINI Roadster. Respectively they were MINI Concepts #984 and 985. […]