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Not passing my test in my Mini 850 Traveller

Ben Whitworth, 30 September 2009 10:30

I took my driving test in my Mini 850 Traveller. In Zimbabwe 'passing your test' in the mid 1980s normally involved the handing over of a wodge of cash to the instructor and taking him to the supermarket to do his shopping in return for a signed and stamped driving license. I tried to buck the trend – and, literally, ...

Mini memories: why my first car was a Mini

Ben Whitworth, 21 September 2009 15:44

My first car was a cherry red 850 Traveller. My elder brother and I pooled our resources and, with a little help from our father, we purchased the immaculate Mini from a friend. It cost $850 – we lived in Zimbabwe at the time – one Zimbabwean dollar for each cubic centimetre. And it was superb. It was big enough ...

Mini JCW convertible (2009): first official pictures

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Ben Whitworth, 10 February 2009 12:07

The new UK-built John Cooper Works Convertible will take centre stage on the Mini stand at the Geneva motorshow in February. Priced at a hefty £23,470 and on sale at the end of March, the convertible features the same chassis and powertrain tweaks as the JCW tintop. That’s an awful lot of money for a Mini. What do I get ...

Mini goes electric! Spy photos of battery-powered Mini (2012)

Ben Whitworth, 18 September 2008 07:30

These are CAR's first spy pictures of the electric Mini – the miserly mini that will help BMW meet tough new American regulations requiring car makers selling vehicles in California also to offer zero-emission vehicles by 2012. Our scoop photographer snapped the Mini out testing on the roads around Munich. And it wasn’t difficult for our man to spot the ...

Mini's SAV scooped (2010)

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Ben Whitworth, 05 December 2007 10:00

Little and large, heh? Yes, quite. We’ve caught Mini’s upcoming SAV – that’s Sports Activity Vehicle for those of you on the lookout for pointless automotive acronyms – undergoing tests well before its 2009 debut. And being handily caught next to an X5 at these traffic lights in Munich shows just how squat and chunky Mini’s soft-roader will be. Although ...

John Cooper Mini Works Challenge (2007): first official pictures

Ben Whitworth, 15 August 2007 10:05

Now this looks seriously cool... Doesn’t it just. Mini has hooked up John Cooper Works to create the Challenge – a bespoke racing Mini developed for Mini’s one-maker race series. Due for a public unveiling at the upcoming Frankfurt motorshow, the track-prepped Cooper S-based Mini will cost £38,000 and gets a major motorsport overhaul. A redesigned twin-scroll turbocharger and modifications ...

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