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 the brand, and the strongest signal yet that the post-overhaul MINI lineup is finding real traction outside the US.

The second quarter alone told an even sharper story. MINI moved 81,035 units between April and June, a 17.1 percent jump from the same period last year and an acceleration from the 6.0 percent gain the brand posted in Q1, which we covered in detail here. Whatever momentum MINI built in Q1 didn’t fade going into summer. It compounded.

BMW Group credited fully electric MINIs as the brand’s primary growth driver globally, which lines up with everything we’ve been tracking since MINI’s EV sales cracked 100,000 units in 2025. The pattern holding through H1 2026 suggests that wasn’t a one-off. Electrification is now simply how MINI grows.

Context matters here, and it cuts both ways. This growth is coming almost entirely from Europe and other international markets, not the US. BMW Group’s Europe sales region was up 5.4 percent for the half, and fully electric vehicles there posted a 38.0 percent jump in Q2 alone as the new BMW iX3 reached customers. That’s the environment MINI’s EV lineup is thriving in. The US remains a tougher climate for electric MINIs specifically, a gap we flagged when MINI closed out 2025 up 9.3 percent domestically on combustion strength rather than EV demand.

It’s also worth noting the wider BMW Group picture wasn’t uniformly rosy. Group deliveries fell 4.2 percent to around 1.15 million vehicles for the half, dragged down by a sharp decline in China and the Asia-Pacific region. MINI and the BMW brand’s X models were the standouts pulling the numbers up in Europe and the US while China worked against everyone.

BMW iX3

Jochen Goller, the BMW board member overseeing sales, said the Neue Klasse rollout is fuelling the broader group’s momentum, with the iX3 tracking toward its first major order milestone. MINI wasn’t the headline of his statement, but its results this half make the strongest case yet that the brand’s product reset from 2024 and 2025 has stopped being a story about recovery and started being one about genuine growth.

Six consecutive quarters in the green is no longer a rebound. It’s a trend. The next test is whether MINI can translate that European and international EV strength into a US market that still isn’t buying the electric argument the same way.