MINI News

MINI’s new 5 Door unveiled last summer will be called the Hardtop 4 Door when it goes on sale in the U.S. in January. The name change was announced at this week’s Los Angeles Auto Show, where the vehicle is being showcased alongside the tasty Superleggera Vision concept car. The Hardtop...

The 2015 Dakar Rally is coming up and in the lead up MINI has announced that eight of its custom-built ALL4 Racings will take part. MINI, together with its partner in the Dakar Rally, German motorsport and engineering firm X-raid, will be aiming to defend its title, which last year was won by...

We’ve already seen the regular versions of the updated 2015 MINI Cooper Countryman and 2015 Cooper Paceman, and now we have details for the high-performance John Cooper Works variants. MUST SEE: Stolen Tesla Police Chase Ends In Massive, Fiery Wreck, Splits Model S In Half: Video They feature...

French daredevil driver, skier, and rally racer Guerlain Chicherit's Guinness World Record jump attempt was promoted all around the world earlier this year. Chicherit was aiming to surpass Tanner Foust's 332-foot record with a 360-foot jump in a modified MINI Countryman rally car. The jump, which...

With the vast collection of videos on YouTube taken by people in their car, it was only a matter of time until the OEMs started catering to the hobby. Recently, we learned that Chevrolet was launching an industry-first Performance Data Recorder system for its 2015 Corvette that lets you record...

Under the BMW Group’s tutelage, the MINI brand has grown into something that only loosely resembles its truly pint-sized past. That’s not entirely a bad thing, however, as some of the newest MINIs are also some of the best. But the MINI Superleggera Vision concept is the most un-MINI...

The Internet is awash in videos (real and fake) of people jumping (or trying to jump) moving vehicles. Many end in predictable tragedy. This one ends in triumph. Why? Because it's Tony Hawk. MUST SEE: 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Live Photos And Video The premise is simple: a moving MINI...

Here in America at least, small trucks are dead, as are the -amino and -chero car-truck mashups of decades past. For the most part those are both good things. But every now and then we come across a modern car converted into a pickup-like vehicle that makes us wish things were different. The MINI...

Project Binky is the brainchild of the guys at Bad Obsession Motorsport in the UK. Combining an Austin Mini with a Toyota Celica GT-Four's drivetrain and suspension, while building a race-worthy structure along the way. It's an incredible dive into the world of highly custom engineering and...

With MINI’s Cooper Countryman receiving a series of updates for the 2015 model year, the car’s three-door variant, the Cooper Paceman, is also set to receive the same updates and has been shown in its new form for the first time at the 2014 Beijing Auto Show. The updated Paceman will...

MINI’s Countryman crossover was introduced for the 2011 model year, and received its first update for 2013. Now, just a week out from the 2014 New York Auto Show, MINI has confirmed that it will use the event for the world debut of its 2015 Countryman. Although MINI has already introduced its...

The essence of the classic Mini Cooper is easy to define: it's endearingly small. What happens when you mess with the "small" part? In more than a decade since Mini transformed into MINI, its makers have laid progressively larger patches on the road with models like the Clubman, the Paceman and the...

Not long ago BMW execs were gung ho about expanding the MINI lineup to between eight and ten separate models in a quest to boost sales, however, since then the focus has switched to improving the design and quality of the brand’s core models or “pillars” as they’re referred...

MINI has given us our first official look at its third-generation Clubman in the form of a thinly veiled concept version at this week’s 2014 Geneva Motor Show. MINI’s new Clubman Concept is about ten inches longer than the current Clubman and close to seven inches wider. This puts it in...

The third generation of the modern MINI Cooper recently made its debut, but so far only in its three-door Hardtop bodystyle. There are still many variants to be revealed, including some brand new ones. One of these will be a new five-door variant that’s expected to be revealed in the second...

The BMW Group is the latest automaker to announce a plan to consolidate platforms used across different models and brands. The move, says BMW, will help operations remain profitable during volatile periods and improve the chances of reaching a previously stated goal of two million unit sales by...

BMW's version of the MINI is an unusual vehicle, and it's built in unusual places. Currently, many MINIs are built in the Oxford, England plant that's most closely tied to the brand's heritage. But the Countryman and Paceman are made under contract by Magna Steyr in in Graz, Austria. The latter...

MINI’s third-generation Cooper goes on sale this spring, priced from $20,745 when you include a $795 shipping charge. The sportier Cooper S will set you back $24,395, once again including shipping. The cars are being introduced as late 2014 model year arrivals and join existing 2014 models...

A trio of MINI All4 Racing crossovers took the top three spots in the 2014 Dakar Rally, which saw Spanish driver Joan ‘Nani’ Roma come first. It was the first win for Roma in a car at the Dakar Rally (he won the event on a motorcycle back in 2004 when the rally was still held in...

Just this week MINI presented a concept previewing the new John Cooper Works performance version of its third-generation Cooper, and now we have our first look at the actual production version, which was spotted cold weather testing in northern Europe recently. The car features all the typical JCW...