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...
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...
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...
MINI Wins ALG Lease Award
An excerpt from MSN Autos: BMW topped other luxury makes for the second year in a row in 2005, ALG said. The lease analysis and information company noted that the MINI Cooper,...
MINI Convertible Tops US Total Quality Index
From MINIUSA PR: In its first year since launch, the MINI Convertible has received the top award in its segment in the latest Strategic Vision Total Quality Index (TQI). The MINI Cooper...
MINI Wins Used Car Of The Year Award
This of news comes from Carpages.co.uk: The current-generation MINI, built at the BMW Group Plant in Oxford, has claimed the Used Car Of The Year award, the ultimate accolade in the Auto...
Cooper Convertible; Most Efficient in Class
While the MINI’s Tritec engine may not be known for it’s effeciency, it was still enough to best the rest of the US convertible market in terms of fuel economy. Here’s an...