City Car Concepts Archives

Dec 25, 25Dec 25, 25

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

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...

May 13, 25Jan 20, 26

The Complete History of MINI Concept Cars (1995–Present)

MINI has never been a brand afraid to dream. Since its rebirth under BMW in the 1990s, MINI’s concept vehicles have served as blue-sky sketches, near-production previews, and occasional love letters to...

Renamed MINI Rocketman Gaining Steam with MINI Executives

Jan 23, 15Jan 25, 15

For over five years we’ve reported (and reported and reported) on MINI’s internal desires to produce a smaller car than the R53, R56 and especially F56. In 2011 MINI gave us a...

MINI’s Decade of Concepts & Turmoil (w/Gallery)

Dec 9, 13Jan 20, 26

Given the launch of the new MINI and the recent pre-production shell that popped up on eBay, we’ve been digging into our archives a bit and thinking about how the modern MINI...

World Debut: Updated MINI Rocketman Concept

Jun 14, 12Jun 14, 12

MINI has dusted off and updated the most exciting concept from the past five years. The MINI Rocketman was meant to show off how far MINImalism could go and how the original...

BMW i3 and i8 Spied Winter Testing

Mar 9, 11

While the i8 is undoubtedly the sexier of the two, the i3 that is the big news here. And thatâ€™s why what you see above is so big. Our friends at Kilometer...

MINI’s Secret City Car Project

Jun 2, 10Aug 19, 10

MINI has been working on the idea of a city car for quite some time. However it was only last year that things began to fall into place and allow the idea...

MINI’s Micro Car Plans Come into Focus

Mar 17, 09Aug 19, 10

The usually rather unreliable Auto Express has the latest on BMW’s Project i and how it relates to MINI’s future products. According to the weekly UK mag MINI will be debuting an...