MINI is finally building the rugged Countryman its history has always promised. Design chief Holger Hampf has now confirmed what MotoringFile first reported a year ago: a genuinely off-road focused version of the U25...
MINI USA has now filled in every corner of its 2027 model year, and the picture that emerges is more coherent than any single press release let on. Cooper pricing holds flat....
Every MINI Cooper built since 2014 owes its bones to a BMW board decision that had nothing to do with MINI at all. BMW needed a way to build small, front-wheel-drive premium...
MINI USA just confirmed what value-minded shoppers have been hoping for: the Oxford Edition is returning to the 2027 MINI Cooper lineup alongside the Countryman version announced earlier this year. Available to...
MINI USA and the John Cooper Works Race Team are back on gravel this weekend, heading to the American Rally Association (ARA) National Championship’s “Rally Colorado” event July 18–19. The rally takes place in...
BMW Group has just put real cars on real Spanish roads running on 100% renewable petrol, and the implications reach further than a single pilot programme. Alongside Toyota Motor Europe, Bosch and...
MINI USA has detailed a round of updates for the Model Year 2027 MINI Cooper 2 Door, 4 Door, and Convertible lineup, effective with July 2026 production. The headline for shoppers: base...
MINI delivered 149,538 vehicles worldwide in the first half of 2026, up 11.7 percent year over year, according to new figures from BMW Group. It’s the sixth straight quarter of growth for...
Twenty five years of modern MINI production, and the brand has finally built a car that says so directly. The new MINI Cooper Oxford Edition wraps the Cooper 3-door in Union Jack...
The MINI Cooper Heritage Edition, the US and Canadian version of the new Oxford Edition, gets almost everything right. The Union Jack roof graphic, the coordinated wheels, the interior detailing down to...
Ahead of MINI’s latest release dropping this week, we’re recapping the numerous special editions that MINI have already given us in 2026. least five distinct special editions somewhere in the world so...
Ferrari has done something nobody expected in 2026: it has put a clutch pedal and a gated shifter back into a V12 flagship. The new 12Cilindri Manuale, unveiled this week, is the...
MINI USA has marked America’s 250th birthday with a love letter dressed up as a press release, and buried near the bottom of all that transatlantic charm is an actual line of...
MINI USA sold 7,456 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, a 2.1% decline from the 7,616 units delivered in the same period last year, according to figures released today by BMW...
MINI is back at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year with a massive presence that includes a working pub, a farm shop with a climbing wall, a Paul Smith collaboration store,...
Pop the bonnet on a MINI JCW GP3 and you’ll find a reinforced subframe, a strut brace where the back seat used to be, and 69 extra horsepower wrung out of the...
The numbers tell one story. The experience tells another. Comparing the R53 and F66 Cooper S is, on paper, a simple exercise in automotive evolution. More power, more technology, more weight, more...
At some point, a number stops being a statistic and starts being an argument. One million kilometres in a single MINI Cooper D is that kind of number. It is the equivalent...
BMW slashed its 2026 earnings guidance by more than half this week, blaming deteriorating conditions in China and the economic fallout from the Iran conflict. The financial mechanics are BMW’s problem to...
The MINI Cooper has a future. That much is now confirmed. Holger Hampf, MINI’s head of design, has stated publicly that work on the next entirely new generation has begun, targeting the...
The definitive used buyer's guide to the F56 MINI Cooper. Covers both LCI facelifts, every engine, transmission choices, and exactly which model years are worth owning.
MINI has sold a watch alongside almost every generation of its cars since 2001. Most buyers never knew. Most dealers barely mentioned them. And yet the brand’s watch program, running continuously for...
On the surface it’s a paint option. A roof color. The kind of detail that shows up in a configurator update and gets a paragraph in an ordering guide. But for anyone...
If you follow MINI and care about where the JCW brand is heading, the car that debuted today at the 24 Hours of Le Mans deserves your full attention. The BMW M...
MINI ended manual production in February 2024. Here's what that cost the brand, what the sales data revealed, and whether it returns.
MINI built its identity on personalization. The F66's style system simplified ordering while removing most genuine choice. Here's what was lost and why it matters.
MINI has been building special editions longer than most of its current buyers have been alive. From the Limited Edition 1000 in 1976 to the 1965 Victory Edition and the Paul Smith collaboration this year, the...
Are we about to see MINI get serious about JCW the way BMW got serious about M in the 1980s? That’s not a small question. When BMW M GmbH stopped being an...
Ask a child to draw a small car. Not a MINI, just a small car, and there’s a reasonable chance the proportions they reach for will look like a Cooper. Short overhangs,...
The F66 Cooper C and Cooper S share the same engine. Here's what you actually get for the premium, how the Oxford Edition changes the math, and whether the upgrade is worth it.
MINI is reintroducing the One nameplate on the F66 Cooper with a 121hp 1.6-litre engine and a £24,735 starting price.
MINI has formalized what was previously an ad hoc special edition strategy into something more deliberate. Under the MINI Icon Drops banner, the brand has mapped out eight editions releasing between now...
The MINI Cooper Paul Smith Edition is available across the full Cooper family. Here is a closer look at what the five-door delivers and whether the premium is worth it.
The gap between Cooper S and JCW has never been consistent. A generation-by-generation breakdown of what the premium actually buys, and which one is worth it at each price point.
