Award-winning MINI Convertible
From MINI UK Press: The MINI Convertible has taken the top trophy in the convertible category at the annual Auto Express magazine New Car Honours awards. The MINI Convertible launched in 2004...
BMW Group Wins for Outstanding Design
From BMW Group Press: Munich. Once again, the BMW Group placed at the top of this year’s “Ranking:Design”, an established best-of list in the design industry which selects the 100 most outstanding...
MINI Wins Automobile Magazine Comparison
The Cooper S has won another magazine comparo. This time from the highly respected Automobile Magazine and the cars are the new Mistubishi Eclipse, Mustang and Acrua RSX Type S. Certainly an...
MINI_Motion Line Wins a Gold IDEA Award
From the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA.org): The MINI_motion product line contains a series of accessories-a watch, shoe, carpack, and jacket. The products are sold outside the typical channel of car...
MINI Convertible Wins a Silver IDEA Award
From the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA.org): BMW wanted to build on its popular MINI vehicle by offering a convertible model. The challenge was to integrate a fully automatic soft top...
Retro Failure
Jerry Flint from the Car Connection takes on retro in his most recent column and why it has failed for most automakers… with a few notable exceptions of course. Here’s an excerpt:...
MINI_Motion Watch Wins IDEA Design Award
The MINI_Motion watch (we reviewed last summer) has just been awarded a Bronze in the IDEA/BussinessWeek 2005 design award. Here’s an excerpt from the article: The MINI_motion watch features a digital display...
2006 Special Edition Websites
This slipped under our radar screen last week with all the other daily posts. MINI has launched a few web-pages detailing the three new special edition MINIs for 2006 that were announced...
AutoExpress Covers the Next MINI
Another week, another cover story on the next generation MINI by Autoexpress. You’d think they’re trying to sell magazine or something. For those that have been following the next MINI information here...
2002 MINI Ranked 3rd Worst in Reliability
The JD Power results are in for the long term reliability of 2002 US cars and trucks and the results for MINI, aren’t good. MINI finished 3rd from the bottom with 383...