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Chris Chilton,
14 April 2010 11:57
In these days of 7min laps, rounding the Nurburgring in 10min hardly classes as electric. Unless you’re in a Mini E. A battery-powered baby BMW driven by ex-DTM racer Thomas Jäger turned in a 9m52 lap, hitting a heady – but presumably near silent – 116mph on the way. That’s its top speed of course, not a lap average. Far ...
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Tim Pollard,
06 April 2010 11:29
Our friends over at Autoblog have snared a handful of European patent pictures of next year's new Mini twins – the Coupé and Roadster. The 2011 debutants are revealed in their likely showroom spec in these new sketches that lodge the trademarks required to stem Chinese rip-offs.The 2011 Mini Coupé and Roadster were trailed in the 2009 concept cars shown ...
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Ben Pulman,
19 March 2010 09:37
BMW will facelift the popular Mini hatchback range in summer 2010. Our new spy photos reveal the revised Mini for the first time six months ahead of launch. I thought the Mini was unfaceliftable. If that's a word...Quite. Like most retro designs (think Mini, Beetle, 500), the Mini is a difficult shape to facelift. But engineers in Munich and Oxford ...
Mini hatchback information: everything you need to know if you own a Mini hatch, are thinking of buying one or just want to find out more about the Mini One, Cooper, Cooper D and Cooper S. Click on the links below for all of CAR Magazine’s news, reviews, videos, scoops and spy photos of the Mini car range. We list ...
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- 18 March 2010
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Ben Pulman,
20 January 2010 10:58
This is the Mini Countryman, the fourth addition to Mini’s range – after the regular three-door hatch, the Convertible and the Clubman – and also the first current-generation Mini to have four-wheel drive and four regular passenger doors. Is the Mini Countryman supposed to be a proper 4x4, and is four-wheel drive standard? No, Mini says the Countryman is a ...
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John Burton,
15 January 2010 15:36
Mini is replacing the current 1.4 and 1.6 petrol engines in spring 2010 – with a single more powerful and efficient Valvetronic 1.6. The new engine will power all the entry-level First and One models instead of the current 1.4. The new and improved 1.6 will also replace the existing engine found in the Cooper and Cooper S models. The ...
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Tim Swietochowski,
15 December 2009 23:00
This funky beach-biased concept car has just appeared at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show in January. Called the Mini Beachcomber Concept, this flight-of-fancy Moke-inspired show car gives us our first glimpse of how Mini's production-spec 4x4 crossover will look at launch - we'll see the real car at the Geneva motor show in March 2010 ahead of an autumn UK launch. Talk me round ...
Mini Convertible information: everything you need to know if you own a Mini Convertible, are thinking of buying one or just want to find out more about the Mini cabrio. Click on the links below for all of CAR Magazine’s news, reviews, videos, scoops and spy photos of the Mini cabriolet car range. We list the top 10 stories for ...
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- 01 December 2009
Mini hatchback information: everything you need to know if you own a Mini hatch, are thinking of buying one or just want to find out more about the Mini One, Cooper, Cooper D and Cooper S. Click on the links below for all of CAR Magazine’s news, reviews, videos, scoops and spy photos of the Mini car range. We list ...
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- 01 December 2009
Mini Clubman information: everything you need to know if you own a Mini Clubman, are thinking of buying one or just want to find out more about the Clubman estate. Click on the links below for all of CAR Magazine’s news, reviews, videos, scoops and spy photos of the Clubman. We list the top 10 stories for each model – ...
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- 01 December 2009
