2017 MINI Countryman Plug-in Hybrid Spied for the First Time with New Interior
2 Feb 2015, 14:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The upcoming MINI F60 Countryman was spotted testing near the Arctic Circle in plug-in hybrid guise and with its interior on display
MINI Wants You to Shift into Hyperdrive with Fun Online App
29 Jan 2015, 12:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / MINI Hyperdrive is an interesting online browser app that wants you to travel around the world and tell us all about it in the 5-door hatch
MINI JCW What? This Is the Real Go-Kart Experience
26 Jan 2015, 14:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The third iteration of the MINI Hatchback since BMW took over left some people unimpressed. That’s because due to the modern standards it has to fulfill, it’s a rather bigger and heavier...
MINI Dealership Replaces Guitar Stolen from Countryman for Local Artists
24 Jan 2015, 13:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Last fall, a couple in San Francisco had their car’s window smashed and their guitar stolen in a rather sad turn of events. It wouldn’t’ve been all that important but the thi...
MINI F56 Cooper Hardtop Deliveries Halted in the US
23 Jan 2015, 15:02 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / In a rather interesting turn of events, the US-bound MINI dealerships halted all deliveries of 2014 and 2015 MINI F56 Cooper models until further notification reports BMW Blog. At the moment the exa...
MINI Rocketman Concept to Get ’Minor’ Moniker When It Goes in Production
23 Jan 2015, 14:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Back in 2011, MINI was introducing the Rocketman concept, a car that looked exactly as it should - small, quirky and fun to drive, returning to the brand’s core values. In the meantime, no wor...
MINI Gets a New Boss Amid Troubling Sales
22 Jan 2015, 11:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / MINI sales have been doing poorly ever since the new model was introduced. Last year, the sales increase posted was a measly 1 percent, way below what the BMW Group wanted to see. Of course, such a ...
2017 MINI Countryman Prototype Spied Playing in the Snow
21 Jan 2015, 18:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It’s not the first time we have a close encounter with the upcoming MINI Countryman but it is the first spotting of the car playing hard in the heavy snow near the Arctic Circle. That’s ...
MINI One First 5-door Hatchback Has 75 HP and Will Be the Cheapest Offering on the Table
20 Jan 2015, 08:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / People have been complaining about the price tags new MINIs have for quite some time now. Actually, it all happened right after BMW took over so the company is now trying to make amends. In this reg...
MINI Wins Fourth Consecutive Dakar Rally
19 Jan 2015, 08:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The MINI brand achieved yet another success in the Dakar Rally. After more than 9,000 km (5,590 miles) through Argentina, Chile and Bolivie, MINI won for the fourth consecutive time the world’...
2016 MINI John Cooper Works Convertible Spotted Testing in the Cold
15 Jan 2015, 10:28 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / At the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, MINI unveiled its latest John Cooper Works model, the 3-door hardtop. The event was spiced up with fumes from an original Mini Cooper S that used to race in the Monte ...
2015 MINI JCW Hardtop Unveiled Next to Fired Up Original at Detroit · Live Photos
12 Jan 2015, 20:09 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Probably the best launch of the entire 2015 Detroit Auto Show was the one showing us the 2015 MINI John Cooper Works Hardtop if we’re to be honest. That’s because the ‘Not Normal&r...
MINI Posts One-Two Victory in Fourth Stage of the 2015 Dakar Rally
8 Jan 2015, 13:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The successful run in the 2015 Dakar Rally for the MINI teams continued in the fourth stage as two cars wearing the winged badge managed to cross the finish line first. It was a win for Nasser Al-At...
BMW US Sales Were Record-Breaking in 2014
7 Jan 2015, 09:35 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It was an incredibly successful year for the BMW Group in the US, despite some shaky performance in sales from the MINI brand. In total, over the last 12 months, the German company sold 395,850 unit...
2016 MINI Clubman Spyshots Show New Interior
6 Jan 2015, 13:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Last year, when the MINI Clubman Concept was first introduced at Geneva, we really didn’t know what to make of it. We loved every bit but, in truth, it was a bit on the plus side. Now, as long...
MINI Wins First Stage of 2015 Dakar Rally
5 Jan 2015, 14:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / MINI began the 2015 Dakar Rally with a stage win. Orlando Terranova (Argentina) and his team-mate, Bernardo Graue (also from Argentina), behind the wheel of a MINI ALL4 Racing, managed to steal the ...
Huge Red Hamann Tycoon Evo X6 Makes Classic Mini Look Minuscule
2 Jan 2015, 07:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Dubai is the one place on Earth where driving a BMW M5 might make you feel like a poor man. The amount of cars costing over $100,000 over there is simply staggering and everyone is struggling to mak...
Why Isn’t MINI Allowed to Evolve?
29 Dec 2014, 15:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It has become a trend to bash new models when they come out, especially if they have an impressive legacy behind. The most obvious example is MINI, but others can easily be identified. What makes en...
Comparison: RMS Titanic vs MINI Cooper 5-Door
19 Dec 2014, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Just for the giggles, we thought it would be a great idea to do a comparison between two British-built machines that are famous across the world. The heavyweight of this competition is the RMS Titan...
MINI at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show
19 Dec 2014, 14:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / This year at the Detroit Auto Show MINI introduced its new Hardtop model to the masses, marking its US premiere at the time. Next year we’ll be seeing yet another premiere but this time it wou...