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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? ...

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The £41,000 Mini Inspired by Goodwood

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Tim Pollard, 30 June 2011 11:24

Mini coupe first official pictures and video

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Chris Chilton, 21 June 2011 15:24

Mini coupe JCW (2011) CAR review Mini Roadster (2012) first official pictures After the endless teaser stories and photos of cars wearing vestigal disguise, Mini has finally released full details of its cut down, uglied-up two-seat Coupe. The fifth – and most ludicrous - Mini shape comes in Cooper, Cooper S, Cooper SD and John Cooper Works forms and, according ...

Mini Cooper SD (2011): the faster diesel Mini

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Tim Pollard, 02 February 2011 10:48

Mini today finally went official with the high-performance diesels we scooped last year. The Cooper SD trim is available across the Mini range, on the hatch, convertible, Clubman estate and Countryman junior SUV. It's a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbodiesel generating 141bhp and 225lb ft from 1750-2700rpm. The new Mini Cooper SD models should be quite punchy then; that's more muscle than ...

Mini to return to the WRC in 2011 with 4x4

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 27 July 2010 13:55

Mini is back in rallying, more than 50 years after it ruled the roost at Monte Carlo and beyond, giving a huge shot in the arm to the World Rally Championship. In typically audacious style BMW has announced it will campaign the Countryman SUV rather than the standard Mini, starting with selected WRC rounds in 2011 followed by the entire ...

Mini: the 2011 facelift news and pictures

Tim Pollard, 28 June 2010 10:40

Mini has facelifted its range of hatchbacks, Clubman estates and Convertible soft-tops for the 2011 model year. There's the subtlest of design upgrades – mainly to the lights, front and rear – plus a family of new diesel engines. The new 2011 Mini goes on sale in August 2010. Here's how you'll spot the new ones from the thousands of ...

Mini E Racer (2010) takes on the Nurburgring

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 ...

The original Mini and honesty of purpose

Arunabh Satpathy, 21 July 2009 13:11

The following was uploaded direct to CAR Online by Arunabh Satpathy. Remember you can upload your own musings, articles and reviews by using the Upload function at the foot of each article pageWhat can possibly redeem a soul? Bruised, battered, chewed up and spat on, people often fall back on the only thing there is to fall back upon. 'At ...

Mini: the 50th anniversary and new models galore

Phil McNamara, 27 May 2009 13:14

Mini’s renaissance is entering a new phase of electric power, 4x4 crossovers and yet more bodystyles, said BMW marketing chief Ian Robertson at the British brand’s 50th birthday party. Over the last May bank holiday weekend, some 15,000 Mini fans converged on Silverstone, for a three-day festival of cars, racing and music. The company revealed three special editions: high-spec Camden ...

Mini E electric car(2008): first photos

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Tim Pollard, 20 October 2008 09:36

The Mini has finally gone electric. As scooped by CAR Online, the Mini E is a pure electric car and just 500 will be built for corporate and private customers in the US, although a handful could make it to London where there is also a limited recharging infrastructure. The Mini E will only be available for one year as ...

Mini cleans up its act

Tim Pollard, 03 June 2007 02:33

Minis clean up Mini today announced it will fit many of the Efficient Dynamics tech already seen on the 1-series to all new hatchbacks fitted with the new PSA engines. The result? A Cooper D will now emit just 104g/km of CO2 - matching the signficantly more expensive Toyota Prius. And average fuel consumption on the diesel climbs to 72.4mpg ...

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