David Brown Automotive recently revealed its first electric model – the Mini eMastered – and now its first customer takes delivery. David Brown Automotive has built a business over the last decade by creating first the Speedback as an Aston MartinDB-esque model based on the old Jaguar XKR, and more recently with restomod classic Minis […]
David Brown electric Mini eMastered costs MORE than a Porsche Taycan Turbo S
David Brown Automotive turns their restomod Mini in to the electric Mini eMastered with 98bhp and a £150k price tag. It’s six years since David Brown Automotive revealed the Mini Remastered, a restomod of the original Mini with an eye-watering price tag of more than £50k. It was a lovely little thing – as you’d […]
New electric MINI Cooper and MINI Aceman WILL be built in Oxford
The new electric MINI Cooper – and the forthcoming electric MINI Aceman – will be built in Oxford as BMW announces a £600 million investment. The new electric MINI Cooper has finally been revealed as MINI uncovers the next generation MINI EV with a simplified, clean design – but still ‘MINI’ – which, we were […]
This is the new MINI Countryman – and there’s an ELECTRIC Countryman too [Video]
The new MINI Countryman is revealed, with BMW X1 underpinnings, grows in size and is available with an electric powertrain. We’ve already seen the arrival of the new MINI Cooper Electric today, and now we get its much bigger sibling with the reveal of the new MINI Countryman. For the first time, the MINI Countryman […]
New ELECTRIC MINI Cooper revealed – up to 250 mile range [Video]
The new MINI Cooper is revealed as MINI’s new electric offering, with up to 250-mile range and new tech. ICE versions to follow. Thanks to a leak back in April, we’ve already seen the new electric MINI, but now it’s officially revealed and will arrive in showrooms in the UK in the new year. This […]
2024 MINI Cooper interior OFFICIALLY revealed
Ahead of a debut later this year, MINI reveals the interior of the 2024 MINI Cooper with simple styling inspired by the original Mini. Back in 2021, we revealed photos of the next MINI Hatch, which we now know will be the MINI Cooper (yes, ‘Cooper’ is no longer a trim level), and a glimpse […]
MINI John Cooper Works 1to6 Edition is a £40k farewell to manual gearboxes in MINIs
The MINI John Cooper Works 1to6 Edition is revealed as a limited run of titivated MINI JCWs as the last ever manual transmission MINI. MINI is travelling quickly down the EV road and that means the end of manual gearboxes, but not just for EVs with their single gear, but for legacy ICE MINIs too. […]
Classic Mini ‘Drop In’ electric conversion from Electrogenic costs £18,000
EV Technology specialists Electrogenic add to their EV conversion options with a drop-in EV conversion for the Classic Mini. Electric conversions for classic cars is becoming quite a thing but, in the main, it means spending big wads of cash which pretty much rules out EV conversions for owners of more modest classics. But EV […]
The millionth MINI 3-Door Hatch of the current (F56) MINI rolls off the line in Oxford
Almost a decade after its launch, MINI is celebrating production of the one-millionth example of the current MINI 3-Door Hatch (F56) in Oxford. Back in November 2013, the current MINI 3-Door Hatch arrived as BMW’s MINI went a bit more upmarket and a bit roomier, and owed much of its underpinnings to BMW with its […]
New 2024 Mini Cooper Electric REVEALED
The new MINI Electric Hatch – to be badged MINI Cooper E – is revealed ahead of an official launch expected at Munich in September. As MINI gets more serious about electric cars, we’ve already had a first look at the next generation electric MINI Countryman – albeit with camouflage – and an electric MINI […]