2 Jul 2014, 08:02 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The first 6 months of 2014 have been profitable for BMW. So profitable actually that the German group is now reporting a record breaking first half of the year, perfectly in tune with their 2 millio...
1 Jul 2014, 12:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Today, the MINI plant in Oxford celebrated a first in its 100-year history, overseeing the first 5-door Hatch model leaving the assembly lines. The car, launched less than a month ago, is going on s...
1 Jul 2014, 10:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The Countryman is currently the biggest model in MINI’s line-up. Future plans might reveal an even bigger car but that’s just supposition at the moment. Until then, rumors claim that the...
27 Jun 2014, 12:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW’s current cheapest car, the 1 Series, is about to get a fresh face, when celebrating its fourth anniversary, next spring. The Life Cycle Impulse for the F20 platform is set to start produc...
25 Jun 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / So far, the third iteration of the MINI hardtop model was released in 6 different variations, 3 running on petrol and 3 running on diesel. The range is about to go even bigger with a John Cooper Wor...
25 Jun 2014, 15:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Not too long ago, we stumbled upon the upcoming Audi Q3 testing somewhere in Germany. The new SUV impressed with a new design around the front fascia that seemed to point out a new tendency over in ...
25 Jun 2014, 13:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW’s 3-liter 6-cylinder inline petrol engine and the 1.6-liter 4-cylinder plant used by MINI won two more awards in the 2014 Engine of the Year contest, adding to the already impressive pile ...
24 Jun 2014, 15:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / A truly heartwarming story reached our collective ear today, coming in from the UK. One loving father that was also an avid Mini Cooper fan back in the day, bought a 30-year anniversary car for his ...
24 Jun 2014, 08:50 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / American Science and Engineering (AS&E) has recently unveiled the Mini Z, the world’s first handheld Z Backscatter imaging scanner for fast, portable and real-time detection. Designed espe...
23 Jun 2014, 10:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / China is truly a wonderful place, with a rich culture that is simply stunning when you get to know it better. Some things that don’t seem all that important to the rest of the world, make all ...
21 Jun 2014, 06:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / MINI sales are currently struggling, the numbers they posted for 2014 being rather disappointing. At first, this downturn was blamed on the release of the new model but 3 months have passed since th...
20 Jun 2014, 11:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / When you’re thinking about the US market, 1-liter turbocharged engines are definitely not the first thing to pop into your head. It would probably be the LS7 engine used on the Corvette or som...
17 Jun 2014, 13:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It’s sunny and the weather is nice around Nurburg, the home of the world famous Green Hell. Therefore, most manufacturers will want to take full advantage of the new atmospheric conditions. Am...
17 Jun 2014, 08:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Back in February, MINI took the virtual veils off the new MINI Clubman Concept and then introduced it in the flesh at the Geneva Motor Show. The world stopped for a moment right then and there...
17 Jun 2014, 07:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / For most of the people close to the automotive scene, the 5-door MINI launched just 2 weeks ago is an abomination. It’s the last straw in a series of decisions taken by BMW that just don...
16 Jun 2014, 07:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / This weekend, BMW and MINI surprised the automotive scene introducing the first ever, mass-produced integration of a GoPro camera with an automobile’s on-board infotainment system. Simply put,...
11 Jun 2014, 10:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Carlex Design has set itself apart from most of the European tuning companies a while ago when they started making really unique interiors out of the best materials around, a couple of years ago.
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10 Jun 2014, 09:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / After the launch of the 5-door Hardtop last week and the introduction of a world premiere in the shape of the new diesel engine under the bonnet of the Cooper SD model, MINI decided to bring the sam...
9 Jun 2014, 13:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / With the new MINI 5-door hardtop set to arrive in dealerships later on this year, the world is starting to wonder what the MINI name stands for these days.
Back when the original was still being...
9 Jun 2014, 09:27 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The new Audi S1 might seem like an insignificant little product from Audi, the least powerful and smallest of all the S models at 231 hp. However, it's had a tremendous impact on the Audi brand...