MINI Concept Cars: Design Studies and Vision Vehicles

Jun 2, 26Jun 2, 26

MINI’s Design Chief on What Defines a MINI and the Future of the Rocketman

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,...

May 15, 26May 15, 26

The Rocketman Lives, Again. This Time, Maybe for Real.

MINI's head of design confirms the Rocketman is still under active study. After over a decade of fits and starts, we look at the full history of the car MINI keeps almost building.

The Skeg in Beijing: MINI’s Surf-Aero Concept Is Now a Permanent Brand Mood Piece

Apr 29, 26Apr 29, 26

The MINI x Deus Ex Machina Skeg is, somehow, still on tour. After its IAA Munich debut last September and its North American premiere in Toronto in February, the translucent-fiberglass Cooper JCW has surfaced at Auto...

MINI x Vagabund Concept Review: When Restraint Finally Takes a Holiday

Apr 20, 26Apr 19, 26

With the Vagabund concepts, it’s now clear MINI is entering into a new era of its design langauge. After years of disciplined minimalism, sometimes bordering on austerity, the brand is stepping into...

First Look Video: MINI x Vagabund Countryman Concept

Apr 15, 26Apr 15, 26

Sometimes the best way to take in a concept like this is simply to slow it down and really look at it. We’ve put together a short video that lets you explore...

MINI Countryman Vagabund – A Wild Concept That Points to The Future of MINI

Apr 14, 26Apr 14, 26

If the MINI x Dues concepts where the most acclaimed in years from MINI, what you see here must be a close second. This is the MINI Countryman Vagabund concept, a pair...

2025 Rewind – The Radical Deus Ex Machina MINI Concepts

Dec 26, 25Dec 26, 25

How Deus Ex Machina and MINI Produced MINI’s Most Acclaimed Concepts in Over a Decade Earlier this year MINI quietly did something it has not managed in a long time. It debuted...

2025 Rewind: Looking Back at MINI’s History of Concept Cars

Dec 25, 25Dec 25, 25

Join us over the next week as we look back at some of the biggest stories of our year – starting with the past imagining the future. One of the subjects that...

How Rover’s Futuristic Spiritual Concepts Nearly Rewrote MINI History

Dec 8, 25Dec 8, 25

Every brand has its great what-ifs, but MINI’s biggest almost-car wasn’t just radical, it would have changed the brand forever. In the late 1990s, long before the reborn MINI took shape in...

The MINI ACV 30 – A Look Back at MINI’s Most Wild Concept

Dec 4, 25Jan 20, 26

Every few years MINI design circles back to the same source of inspiration. The ACV 30. The radical little concept that not only previewed the rebirth of MINI but helped reorient the...

Video: The MINI Superleggera – How MINI’s Most Beautiful Car Almost Went Into Production

Nov 11, 25Nov 11, 25

When the MINI Superleggera Vision rolled onto the lawn at Villa d’Este in 2014, it instantly became one of the most breathtaking concept cars of the modern era. A minimalist, hand-formed sculpture...

the Secret MINI Superleggera Prototype and How It Almost Went Into Production

Nov 5, 25Dec 2, 25

When the MINI Superleggera Vision debuted at Villa d’Este in 2014, it looked almost too perfect to be real — a minimalist, hand-formed sculpture that captured MINI’s spirit while stripping away every...