The BMW Group launches BMW Charging and MINI Charging in the UK to make charging EVs and Hybrids simpler and cheaper. One of the biggest pains if you run an electric car is the real faf of signing up to umpteen different providers to make sure you can use a working charger when you’re out […]
Mini Remastered Oselli Edition by David Brown Automotive LAUNCHES as a £100k performance Mini
David Brown Automotive launches the Mini Remastered Oselli Edition as a limited run performance take on their regular Mini remastered. If the Mini Remastered Oselli Edition by David Brown Automotive sounds familiar, that’s because it was revealed back in 2019 as a performance take on their Mini Remastered. We’ll assume that the big gap between […]
MINI Convertible going ELECTRIC – but not until 2025
MINI boss confirms that the MINI Convertible will live on as an EV, but won’t arrive until 2025, two years after a new MINI Hatch launches. If you want a small ‘Premium’ electric convertible at the moment, the choice is pretty limited. In fact the only one we can really think of is the Fiat […]
The first ‘BMW’ MINI rolled off the production line 20 years ago today
It’s 20 years to the day that the first MINI from BMW rolled off the production line in Oxford, the first of more than 5 million built since. It was twenty years ago today (no, we’re not going in to Sgt. Pepper’s) that the very first ‘capital letters’ MINI rolled off the production line in […]
New MINI Countryman and MINI Clubman Shadow Edition: Unsurprisingly, they’re Black with added spec
New MINI Countryman and MINI Clubman Shadow Edition specials arrive with enhanced spec levels and a black theme. Cost from £26,805. MINI has made a career out of ‘Special Edition’ models (it’s a whole two months since the Countryman Boardwalk), so it’s no real surprise to see more with these: the new MINI Countryman and […]
MINI gets a makeover to make it look ‘More Modern’
MINI 3-Door Hatch, MINI Electric, MINI 5-Door Hatch and MINI Convertible get a design and tech makeover to make them look more modern. You might have expected that the MINI range, having been revealed in 2013, would be due to be replaced by an all new model by now. But that all-new MINI range probably […]
MINI Countryman Boardwalk Edition – cosmetic tweaks for the Cooper and Cooper S Countryman
The MINI Countryman Boardwalk Edition arrives as a new limited run MINI Countryman Cooper and Cooper S with prices from £31,600. MINI likes nothing more than a limited edition model to get punters in to showrooms, and they’re also quite fond of the odd ‘American’ moniker. So having launched the MINI Convertible Sidewalk Edition (which […]
MINI John Cooper Works ELECTRIC confirmed – looks like it’ll be the MINI JCW GPE
MINI confirms that an electric John Cooper Works MINI is on the way, and it look set to be an electric version of the limited run MINI GP. MINI, just like virtually every other car maker, is striving to electrify itself to limit regulator fines for average emissions and, because the UK is supposedly heading […]
MINI Countryman Diesel DROPPED – and some BMW diesels including 2 Series and M50d too
The MINI Countryman Cooper D diesel is dropped in the UK, along with diesel engines in the BMW 2 Series and M50d variants. It seems, however hard car makers try to make diesel engines as clean and efficient as is possible, buyers just don’t care, and have gone from loving the torque and economy of […]
2023 MINI Countryman will be BUILT in Germany, and BMW moving more engine production to UK
The next generation MINI Countryman, which will be both ICE and EV, will be built in Germany, as more engine production heads for the UK. It was bound to happen at some point, and now it is – MINI production is moving to Germany. But before you get too wound up at the prospect of […]