MINI News

MINI has just launched a dedicated section on its main website for its new 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman, with a number of interesting features to keep potential customers and the curious interested in the car. First and foremost is a new configurator function that allows you to deck out the...

Curious about MINI's new iPhone-controlling, Internet-enabled Connected system, paralleling parent BMW's system of the same name? Satisfy your curiousity with the video below. Fresh from MINI's media site, the video features Rob Passaro as he walks us through the MINI Connected system's multitude...

These are the first spy shots of the upcoming MINI Cooper Countryman S Diesel, the sportier diesel variant of MINI's mildly offroad-capable model. Shown with almost no attempts to hide the car's nature, the Countryman S Diesel could be in production by early next year. Like the standard Cooper S...

• Remember that clip of 50 Cent jamming $2 million into a Lamborghini Murcielago? Not to be outdone, Verne Troyer has posted a photo reply, featuring the actor with stacks of (possibly real) dough in his own Lambo Countach. It's supposed to represent $2 million, but it looks a little short to...

MINI is big on customization. And as a child brand of BMW these days, it looks like the taste for art cars has trickled down as well. The latest creation from the brand is a Paul Weller-designed Cooper to be sold for charity. The pink-and-black car from the British mod rocker was hand-painted by...

MINI chose the Paris Auto Show to pull the wraps off its all-new FIA World Rally Championship car, which is based on the new 2011 MINI Countryman and signals the brand's reentry into world-stage rally racing. The WRC, which has been under development for two years, gets a 1.6-liter turbocharged...

In March of 2008 BMW first announced plans to establish a new research division called ‘Project i,’ whose task would be to develop a number of solutions for a vehicle designed for congested city motoring. The goal of Project i was never to exclusively develop one type of vehicle or...

We have some good news for all the Mini Diesel fans that crave a more powerful model. A car that combines the elements of the sporty MINI Cooper S and the fuel-efficiency of the MINI Diesel has been spotted in testing, suggesting that a new MINI Cooper S Diesel is in the works. The photos show a...

Sounding like a cross between a pissed-off jungle cat and a million-strong cloud of very angry bees, the MINI Countryman World Rally car was caught testing in Portugal this week by an amateur camera. The footage isn't all that revealing--no more so than the officially released photo--but it does...

It looks like MINI UK has pulled a big about-face on the Paris design concept and related competition for tickets to the September 23 unveiling, pulling the photo from the Facebook page and saying the car is nothing but a standard Countryman. The move was made to "avoid confusion." Of course...

MINI's return to rally is fast approaching. The Countryman World Rally Car has just cleared the shakedown phase in the hands of famed racing firm Prodrive, and now heads on to further development. Shakedown testing established the fundamental core of the car's functionality and systems as working...

A week ago, some guy named Aaron was motoring around town, minding his own business, when -- WHAM -- out of the blue, AnnaLynne McCord nailed him. Which isn't especially unusual, except this time she was in a car. Afterward, AnnaLynne turned on the eyelashes and the charm with an "I'm very sorry"...

When MINI set out on the road to building a bigger, taller crossover, the car world's ears perked up--and if they could have, they'd have formed question marks. A big MINI? Isn't that like jumbo shrimp? The oxymoron from Oxford's ready now for all critics, and after our first drive of the 2011 MINI...

The 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman is on its way to dealers later this year. When it arrives, it'll be one of the first MINI products to bring the world of Internet radio and Twitter into the car via a new setup dubbed MINI Connected. Earlier this year, at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, MINI laid out the...

The 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman is on its way to America--and this week, it's on its way across America with the cross-country MINI Takes the States owners' rally. We showed you the Countryman earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show, and yesterday, we hopped on as a co-driver for the Countryman...

The 2011 MINI Countryman will be in the World Rally Championship next season.

The recently revealed 2011 MINI Countryman could soon spawn a handful of new variants as BMW continues its expansion of the iconic MINI brand into something that is edging closer to becoming a full line automaker. We’ve already reported on MINI launching a seven-seater Countryman Plus, as...

The Countryman mini-Crossover will be available in six specs initially, though not all will be available in the U.S.

The latest out of MINI's evil genius skunkworks is on the road.

And here we have diminutive dreamboat Elijah Wood, out for a night on the town in the passenger seat of a MINI. He's acting like it's not his, like it belongs to his friend/personal assistant/other, but c'mon dude: we know. We know, okay? Elijah, if you're reading this -- and statistically, there's...