7 Jun 2012, 12:35 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / From the Italian Job to rallying, the MINI Cooper MkI did it all in its long life between 1959 and 1967. It’s quintessentially British styling and diminutive scale made it popular, while the l...
6 Jun 2012, 11:18 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The three-millionth engine was built today in the UK by BMW Group at Hams Hall, near Birmingham. The landmark unit is a standard 1.6-liter and will go to the MINI plant in Oxford and into a car buil...
5 Jun 2012, 12:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Being part of BMW, MINI also have very ambitious intentions for the Chinese market, and so, they’ve released a new, special version of the Cooper, specially for the market.
It features an e...
3 Jun 2012, 16:30 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / MINI has done it again: the carmaker managed to squeeze a MINI in a space smaller than the car itself... we're joking of course. However, a new parallel parking Guinness World Record has been i...
31 May 2012, 10:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Our dedicated team of photographers have once again caught up with the next generation MINI Cooper hatchback, this time as it undergoes road testing. And they managed to capture something really int...
30 May 2012, 07:08 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / What do the Gumballers do when they have to enter a hotel? They do it in stile... Gumball style, that is. To see exaclty what we’re talking about, we’ve brought along a video that shows ...
28 May 2012, 13:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Winter testing of the F56 third-generation MINI Cooper hatchback has already revealed that the car is basically a re-bodied version of the new 1-Series Gran Turismo, a front-drive hatch from BMW.
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25 May 2012, 10:00 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / BMW has been fined a massive €130 million ($170 million) by Swiss regulators for basically not allowing people to in the country to buy the cars they want from other dealers outside of Switzerl...
24 May 2012, 11:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Automakers nowadays seem to drift further and further away, in their marketing schemes, from their actual cars. Similarly to Fiat’s Argentinean Palio ad, they are using completely irrelevant t...
23 May 2012, 12:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / What used to be a British brand, Mini, is getting ready to become not very British at all. That’s because the next generation of the Cooper hatch that started it all back in the early 2000s wi...
21 May 2012, 08:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / MINI recently introduced a John Cooper Works (JCW) version of the Countryman, with the vehicle being powered by a revised 1.6-liter turbo unit delivering 218 hp. Now, the automotive producer is anno...
20 May 2012, 16:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Yes, we know that Lavender and a convertible combine to create a very feminine car, but we just can’t help feeling that the this particular MINI Roadster has plenty of class. This relatively n...
14 May 2012, 09:40 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ever wondered how a MINI would look like if it fell into the hands of a Japanese tuning house? Well, one answer comes into the form of the adjacent images, which show a a MINI Coupe JCW (John Cooper...
13 May 2012, 13:00 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Here’s another car built for the fans… for the rich ones in fact. MINI previewed their fastest ever production car, the GP version of the John Cooper Works hatch, production of which wi...
11 May 2012, 15:57 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Have you noticed how the MINI naming system doesn’t make sense anymore? Cooper, Cooper S and John Cooper Works are now overly complicated names for trim levels basically. The system worked fin...
8 May 2012, 17:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / MINI is working on a brand new, third generation Cooper hatch, that promises to do away with all the faults of the current model. Instead of lowering the bonnet line like we wanted, they’ve ma...
3 May 2012, 17:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Our spy photographers have caught up with a couple of brand new MINIs testing in Europe. These are production versions of the Paceman concept that we’ve been waiting on for so long. Rumor has ...
2 May 2012, 13:54 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / There are cars out there - the MINI, Fiat 500, VW Beetle and so on - that basically live for the special editions. Without the endless customization they are like soulless creatures endlessly search...
25 Apr 2012, 14:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / At the New York Auto Show, MINI officially confirmed that they were indeed working on a new John Cooper Works GP hot hatch, a stripped out road rocket based on their three-door model.
We consider...
22 Apr 2012, 11:23 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / After this piece of news, we really don’t know what MINI is thinking. We were disappointed when we learned that they’re not going to make the Rocketman any more, and now a report from Ca...