20 Feb 2013, 13:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / How do you measure if the Raptor is the fastest MINI you might ask. Well, it's easy. You do a lap in it and compare the results. The Raptor managed to round the Hockeneimring track in 1:10.87 m...
19 Feb 2013, 10:09 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / As announced by our BMW Power Blog last week, MINI held a conference in Helsinki this weekend in order to show the most important MINI dealers from around the world how the new MINI Cooper will look...
19 Feb 2013, 09:13 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Last week, we told you that MINI was showing its major dealers the brand new Cooper hatchback at a secretive meeting in Helsinki, the capital and largest city in Finland.
Nobody was allowed to ph...
18 Feb 2013, 16:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you want to be rocking that power and style in a MINI convertible, you should forget about the old Convertible with its useless back seats and buy a cool new Roadster.
This model has been avai...
18 Feb 2013, 12:55 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The American market is very well known for its reticency towards diesels. Sometimes, you might even have the unexpected surprise to find yourself low on diesel and every petrol station you try is ou...
18 Feb 2013, 09:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Well, if you did think about this, then now you know you're not the only one. France rally driver Guerlain Chicherit also thought about this and then… well… he went for it.
Mak...
18 Feb 2013, 08:48 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / There is no denying MINI built a crowd pleaser of a car, but to make sure people give it the respect it deserves, the Countryman has been entered in various high-profile rally events.
However, if...
15 Feb 2013, 15:02 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The MINI brand was known for just one model before BMW got involved. The takeover that took place in 2002 was the breath of fresh air that the British manufacturer was waiting for. Since then, 9 new...
15 Feb 2013, 09:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Last year, around May, MINI launched it's new top-of-the-line model, the JCW GP. It is the fastest MINI ever build by the BMW owned company but it isn't the fastest you can buy.
Th...
14 Feb 2013, 16:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / After BMW took over both Roll-Royce and MINI it was only natural that they would combine the best of all their respective cars, BMW's sportiness, Rolls' luxury and the MINI's size.
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14 Feb 2013, 13:28 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / To be honest, we'd rather talk about horses than Sarah Jessica Parker. But the star of Sex and the City was recently spotted being driven around in a MINI Cooper Convertible with the top down.
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14 Feb 2013, 08:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Sunday, February 10, 2013 – the 55th Annual Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles. Most of the TV stars in America and Europe were present at the event, and MINI was there too, making its fir...
11 Feb 2013, 16:53 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The next generation MINI Cooper (and One) hatchback is currently been developed together with the first front-wheel drive BMW ever, the 1-Series GT. We know that already, but what we didn't kno...
11 Feb 2013, 15:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Later this week, at Helsinki, Finland, the MINI dealers will get to see first hand the new Cooper hardtop. Even though it is planned to go on sale in 2014, the first showing of the model will be don...
11 Feb 2013, 10:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Cooper is supposed to be an emblematic car for the MINI brand, yet its crossover cousin is running rings around it in terms of customer demand. Countrymen are the sexiest little things money can...
8 Feb 2013, 17:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The MINI Cooper S is a hot hatch that still makes us drool after all this time. We're saying "all this time" because the MINI has been on the market since 2007 but we never got tired ...
8 Feb 2013, 12:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The sale figures for January have just been released, and at the start of this year yet another record has been broken. A total of 123,276 BMW group automobiles have been sold, summing up to a 9.9% ...
8 Feb 2013, 09:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / MINI revealed its new MINI Coupe in June 2011 and formally released it at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September the same year. The new car is based on the Cabriolet version from which it got its gen...
4 Feb 2013, 09:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It's February, and the numbers for last month are coming in. BMW USA has reported a 0.7 percent increase in January sales compared to the same month in 2012. During the same month, MINI reporte...
24 Jan 2013, 10:21 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / MINI has already established a tradition of releasing London-inspired special editions and now the carmaker is giving us a fresh one, the Clubman Bond Street. The vehicle takes inspiration from the ...