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 […]
MINI Urbanaut Concept – MINI’s depressing view of future urban mobility
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 […]