4 Jan 2011, 15:34 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Prodrive and MINI will begin their new adventure in the World Rally Championship on a part-time basis in 2011, but the first rally-spec MINI Countryman to make it to a 2011 WRC entry list will not b...
27 Dec 2010, 10:53 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / A new modification package targeting the MINI Clubman Cooper S is being previewed by Schmidt Revolution. The German company, which handles alloy rims as a core business, takes its time to release co...
23 Dec 2010, 08:33 UTC · By: Charles Darveight / I’ve seen it one too many times: people purchase a new car and, as if on cue, problems which would have otherwise been easy to avoid start pouring. I thought it might be helpful to at least so...
23 Dec 2010, 06:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Customers who will purchase a MINI vehicle next year will be in for a treat, as the manufacturer announced that starting next year it would offer Sirius as standard equipment. The system will be off...
22 Dec 2010, 15:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / So, it’s almost Christmas time and you haven’t managed to buy presents yet. This is a situation in which an incredibly large number of us can be found this week. We’ll narrow the a...
19 Dec 2010, 07:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / BMW and MINI are going to next year's North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), and their presence there promises to be one of the most exciting on the show's floor. BMW will bring i...
16 Dec 2010, 12:57 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Andy Priaulx has taken up the opportunity to become one of the first drivers to try out the new MINI Countryman WRC, a car that is currently under a strict development programme for the British make...
16 Dec 2010, 10:51 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / BMW owned British icon MINI announced a partnership with renowned snowboard manufacturer Burton for the 2011 winter season. The brand will also be continuing its involvement with Austrian energy dri...
15 Dec 2010, 13:44 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Nissan's relationship with Mitsubishi is stretching even further, the two manufacturers discussing development of a one-ton pick-up truck to be built in Thailand. This means that future generat...
15 Dec 2010, 09:58 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / MINI has pretty high expectations for the future as the British iconic brand hopes to sell no less than 300,000 units a year. The company's head Wolfgang Armbrecht told the Financial Times Deut...
14 Dec 2010, 10:31 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Last week, we were reporting the wonderful piece of news according to which the X-Raid BMW Dakar team was to field a newly-developed Countryman-based MINI All4 Racing for the 2011 Dakar Rally. At th...
14 Dec 2010, 07:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An in-house Japanese alliance is in the making these days in the country of the Rising Sun, as two of its iconic car makers, Nissan and Mitsubishi announced they plan to further expand their collabo...
13 Dec 2010, 15:36 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The British iconic brand could develop a new product in the next few years but it won't be sold under the MINI brand. Instead, the small car will might wear the BMW badge, company boss Wolfgang...
10 Dec 2010, 13:00 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / BMW Group's British division has reported increased sales figures for the month of November. According to the figures released today, 13,079 vehicles were sold on the UK market, which is 12.3 p...
7 Dec 2010, 13:30 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Fiat announced it would file a lawsuit against the producers of the Italian television show AnnoZero for statements made on air on December 2, 2010. The automaker claims the producers have wrongly p...
7 Dec 2010, 11:34 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After confirming the largest car entry in the history of the Dakar Rally last week – no less than 7 crews in the car category – BMW has provided us with yet another (pleasant) surprise. ...
6 Dec 2010, 09:22 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / BMW rounded up the accolades in five categories at this year's Australia’s Best Cars Awards. On Tuesday, November 30th judges from State and Territory based motoring clubs chose BMW and M...
2 Dec 2010, 11:36 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / When MINI agreed to return to the world of rallying alongside Prodrive, it aimed for a constructive part-time campaign in 2011, in which the newly developed Countryman WRC could be put to the test r...
1 Dec 2010, 13:31 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / AC Schnitzer has offered us an interesting cocktail, as the company has presented a tuned vehicle based on the Electric MINI at this year’s Essen Motor Show, with the project using a police ca...
1 Dec 2010, 13:14 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / After running the MINI design team for 10 years, Gert Volker Hildebrand will be leaving the company on December 31, 2010, relinquishing the position to Anders Warming.
Gert Volker Hildebrand, age...