The British subsidiary of BMW announced that the 2012 Olympic Games which will be held in London will benefit from a special edition. The standard Mini Cooper but also the D, S and SD models will get the new limited edition which will be manufactured in only 2012 units. As the company illustrated below the
True fans of the Mini brand are about to get themselves into a world of surprises as their favorite British car maker is about to unveil something new. Sadly though, it’s not exactly going to be to their liking. After taking several complaints for coming up with the new Mini Countryman, they haven’t had enough.
Despite coming out of a pretty bad going financial situation, being caught between the GM rock and the German government hardplace, Opel still has dreams and ambitions about the future. The first and probably of most crucial importance as far as short term sightings are concerned is how Opel wants to surprise the crowds at
Knock the calendars back a few clicks and you’ll find a chance to remember when Mini launched the Goodwood Edition of their Cooper courtesy of some help from Rolls Royce. Here we are today, just after an official U.S. premiere of the same Mini Goodwood edition during the proceedings at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
The British market is one of the most important ones around so it’s no surprise when one of the major manufacturers create a special edition that’s been tailored for it. It gets to a point where it’s actually boring in some of the manufacturers cases because they just seem to come up with a new
We’ve seen it countless times before. Whenever a car company wants their products to feel posh they look up a luxury accessories maker for a set of glove compartment fittings, seat covers or hand luggage to go along with their limited / special edition. In the case of Mini and Tumi, the collaboration came to
Having BMW as an adoptive parent is not the sort of thing that washes off the company by simply bringing success, there are some new standards to be met. Mini remained of the list of manufacturers that create well handling cars, but has recently joined a list which includes those whose cars retain a mastering
Well, now this is what I’d call it when a company means business with it’s new coupe sports model they launched just days ago. The 2012 Mini Coupe’s pictures are still so fresh the paint may run on the fingers of those who hold them to admire the British fun machine. Despite that, there’s no
The British people from MINI decided to introduce the all-new 2012 Coupe, a model based on the hatchback version which comes with four different engine variants and a starting price of $22,000. The first two-seater in the brand’s current range retained almost all the elements of the concept with the same name revealed two years
The German tuning company well-known for their tuning packages designed for BMW and MINI models decided to reveal the Eagle concept, a model based on the current Mini JCW. The Aachen-based tuning house decided to pull the performance of the small British model to its limits, finally claiming that this is the fastest Mini around.
The British subsidiary of BMW Group decided to partially reveal the new MINI Coupé by releasing full technical details while the photo gallery attached to the document is represented by few shots taken while testing the model, still with a camouflage layer especially in the rear. First of all, the British manufacturer releases the dimension
The British people from MINI released details on a new vehicle that follows to enter the range soon, but this time we talk about a two-wheel vehicle with zero emissions. The new MINI Folding Bike wants to be an alternative for people living in crowded cities, the bike facilitating an easier crossing through the congested
MINI Goodwood is a special edition prepared by the British manufacturer for the Shanghai Auto Show, a model that will be manufactured in just 1000 units and gets some styling touches from their folks at Rolls-Royce. The two BMW sub-brands decided to join their forces and create this special edition of the British model. All
Mini had been working on a rally version of the Countryman for quite some time and while we’ve even seen it revealed already but it’s not the end of the story. Seems partnerships change even when it comes to the World Rally Championship as the British got in a bit over their head.
The Bavarians have been busy and we’ve clearly spotted some of their efforts out in the wild with spyshots of the BMW i3 and BMW i8 in testing. Situation is, BMW may have had a lot of work to put in but when it came to picking the crop it turned out to be even
Apart from fuel economy, nowadays it’s almost impossible to find anything more important among the car buying public than safety. Kia’s 2011 Optima scored top points with the NHTSA testing so Mini’s Contryman wining appraisal from the IIHS ‘Top Safety Pick’ couldn’t have gone unnoticed.
Not wanting to be outdone in Geneva by Fiat’s Gucci 500 entry, the British at Mini came up with a new concept. It’s called the Mini Rocketman and it’s much more of a rival to the Fiat 500 than you’d imagine as it’s the smallest modern Mini to come along in a while.
Under the BMW umbrella the British brand Mini made quite the comeback several years ago and as it happens, there’s still plenty of interesting stuff to come along. What’s truly weird among the interesting stuff that’s yet to come from Mini is how the actual Mini is bound to make a comeback at the Geneva
We know the British BMW sub brand has pretty big expansion plans, we’ve seen their new creations at motor shows such as Detroit or about to be released at events such as Geneva, we know they’re working on stuff. When a car maker is working on something, in its late stages of development there’s a
CoverEFX is a German tuning firm who needs to stand out in this business. In a tradition inspired by Lamborghini, in order to do so, they decided to offer a maximum amount of bling for the car they chose to tune.
