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Ollie Kew,
06 September 2012 09:00
A cynical marketing exercise, or Mini getting back to its pocket rocket best? Say what you like about the new (deep breath) Mini John Cooper Works GP, but there's no arguing with its raw specification. With slightly more power (up to 215bhp from 208bhp in the standard JCW), it's the fastest Mini yet. It's also one of the priciest, at £28,790. What ...
Although there’s no motorsport in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Mini will be making an appearance during the track and field events in the Olympic stadium. A fleet of three remote-controlled, quarter-scale Mini Cooper JCWs are charged with retrieving javelins, discus, shot and hammer, and will cover around 6000 metres per day while on duty. Each ‘mini Mini’ ...
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3.5
Georg Kacher,
10 July 2012 09:53
Spotted testing in Death Valley, USA, these spy shots reveal key details about 2013's new third-generation Mini hatchback. A BMW iDrive-style multi-controller is clearly visible inside the new Mini's cabin and it's also a good chance to compare a standard Cooper with a Cooper S range topper. The 2013 Mini gets iDrive? So it would seem. Clearly on display in these test mules is the ...
3.5
Tim Pollard,
23 May 2012 17:02
BMW is readying the next generation of Mini, codenamed F56 and due to be shown in late 2013, probably at the Frankfurt motor show. CAR magazine's spy photographers caught the new Mini Mk3 on test at the Nurburgring in Germany today. Mini is preparing a whole family of newcomers, as we've previously outlined in our earlier new Mini scoops. But ...
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Tim Pollard,
12 May 2012 10:00
Mini has unveiled the new top-dog Mini John Cooper Works GP - a limited edition, very fast, very expensive Mini hot hatch. Just 2000 Mini GP editions will be built, with first sales due for late 2012. Yes, it's a signal that current generation Mini is approaching its wind-down period ahead of the all-new, third-generation Mini models due to land ...
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Greg Fountain,
20 April 2012 16:42
News of the threatened strike at the Mini plant in Oxford is frustrating and disappointing. The last thing anybody on either side wants is a dispute which will damage all parties, and which would mark a return to the bad old days of the last industrial action in 1984, when Rover was running the show. It’s especially tricky at a ...
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Georg Kacher (artist's impressions by Auto Bild/Larson/Christian Schulte),
27 January 2012 10:31
Mini is about to launch the third-generation of the Mini hatchback which has proved so successful since BMW remixed the British brand in 2001. It's not the last of the current Mini family. In 2013, Mini will launch one final model to complement the hatch, Convertible, Clubman estate, Coupe and Roadster: the Paceman coupé inspired, in essence, by the BMW ...
4.5
Gavin Green,
24 January 2012 15:55
A great British design classic is reborn next month. The new Routemaster bus goes into service (from Victoria to Hackney). It looks great, including practical jump-on jump-off rear platform. I can hardly wait to get on board. I loved the old Routemaster, especially riding on the top deck. So I got thinking about great British transport icons and came up ...
3.5
Georg Kacher,
23 January 2012 17:06
The Mini Rocketman, aka the mini Mini, has been shelved, CAR understands. BMW has recently signed off a slew of new Minis, many of which are revealed in the new February 2012 issue of CAR Magazine, but the baby Mini was not one of them. Why BMW has canned the mini Mini Mini showed the Rocketman concept as design study ...
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Tim Pollard,
30 June 2011 11:24
Mini today took its premium hatch to new heights - by confirming the £41,000 price of the Mini Inspired by Goodwood. It chose the first day of the Goodwood Festival of Speed to announce the extraordinary price for its poshest hatch yet. The Mini Inspired by Goodwood is inspired by Rolls-Royce, you see. £41,000 for a Mini! Are they mad? ...
