The MINI Urbanaut Concept is revealed a a ‘one-box’ electric MPV potentially previewing a MINI solution to urban mobility in 2030. What does the future of personal transport hold for us? That’s anyone’s guess as we’re pushed ever more quickly in to a future of EVs and cars like white goods, with visions of autonomous […]
Swindon Classic can turn your classic Mini in to an EV for £10k – but it’s really more than £35k
Swindon Classic announce a Classic Mini EV kit which will turn your original Mini in to an electric Mini for £8,850. But it’s really over £35k. Want to turn your classic Mini in to an electric car for a stylish and fun way to blat around town? If so, Swindon Classic look to have the […]
MINI Paddy Hopkirk Edition CELEBRATES Hopkirk’s Monte Carlo-winning Mini Cooper S
The MINI Paddy Hopkirk Edition arrive as a run of 100 cars celebrating Paddy Hopkirk’s 1964 triumph at the Monte Carlo Rally in car 37. The ground-breaking Min had already become a sales star, and perhaps the first ‘classless’ car, by 1964, but in 1964 Irishman Paddy Hopkirk drove his Mini Cooper S ‘Number 37’ […]
Mini Moke RETURNS – but now it’s just the MOKE and has a £24k price tag
The Mini Moke – a 1960s Mini ‘beach buggy’ – returns as the MOKE, with an initial run of 56 cars celebrating its arrival in 1964. Costs from £24k. It’s 56 years since Sir Alec Issigonis, creator of the Mini, turned his hand to a ‘leisure’ vehicle, taking the underpinnings of the Mini and turning […]
MINI Plant Oxford has built 11,000 MINI Electric already
The MINI Plant in Oxford has already built more than 11,000 MINI Electric models since production began, with 3,000 UK orders in the mix. It’s a year since MINI revealed the MINI Electric (the MINI Cooper S E in the rest of Europe) as it finally turned its initial EV adventures in to production reality. […]
2020 MINI Countryman JCW gets a nip and tuck to match the rest of the updated MINI range
The final piece of the updated MINI range arrives with the MINI Countryman JCW getting a few tweaks to its styling and some additional new tech. It’s only just over a year since MINI updated the Countryman John Cooper Works by delivering a power upgrade to a quite impressive 302bhp. So you wouldn’t necessarily expect […]
MINI Countryman gets the MILDEST of facelifts for 2020
The MINI Countryman gets treated to a mild cosmetic facelift for 202, with improved engine efficiency and some improved technology. It’s easy to think of the MINI Countryman as the MINI for people who’ve actually out-grown MINI but still want to think of themselves as young, free and single, when in reality they have kids […]
MINI wants to give you a GIFT if you buy a MINI Electric. Sort of.
MINI has teamed up with OVO Energy as its energy partner and is offering free electricity for the first 5,000 miles of charging at home for MINI Electric buyers. A few months ago, Volvo announced free electricity to buyers of their Plug-in Recharge Electric cars in a cunning plan to get owners – especially business […]
MINI Convertible Sidewalk Edition – an EXPENSIVE way to buy a MINI Cooper S Convertible
MINI is kicking-off the New Year with the MINI Convertible Sidewalk Edition, a limited-run MINI Cooper S Convertible costing £34,215. We’re not entirely sure the start of January is the right time to pitch a limited edition MINI Convertible – especially a rather expensive one – but that’s what MINI are doing. On offer is […]
MINI Electric: 78,000 prospective buyers put their name down for the electric MINI
The MINI electric – the MINI Cooper SE in Europe – has now garnered 78,000 potential buyers ahead of going on sale officially in March 2020. It’s four months since the MINI Electric was revealed as MINI’s first proper production electric car, and it looks very promising in a ‘fit for purpose’ kind of way. […]