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...
The MINI Rocketman Story & How It Could be Reborn
Few concept cars in MINI’s history have captured the public imagination like the 2011 Rocketman. Small, clever, and unmistakably MINI, it was the brand’s most faithful attempt at reimagining the original 1959 Mini’s...
MINI Rocketman Revival: What the EU’s New Microcar Segment Could Mean for MINI
In a surprise move, the European Commission has given the green light to a new microcar class, dubbed the “E-car” segment. Positioned as European, environmental, and economical, it’s designed to spark a...
Top 5 MINI Concepts That Should Have Made Production
After chronicling every MINI concept from the past three decades, one question kept surfacing in our inbox (and frankly, in our own heads): which ones should have been built? So we went...
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...
MINI Making the Case for Superleggera Production
This week, [Autocar](http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/bold-mini-superleggera-concept-could-still-make-production) decided there’s still hope that the Superleggera will enter production. While enthusiasts probably begin to grow frustrated by these rumors, Autocar’s take is based on an actual conversation with...
New Report on MINI’s Rumored Small Car
Car Magazine, one of the more authoritative sources these days on all things BMW has a new report out that neatly sums up the current rumor mill around MINI’s small car plans...
Renamed MINI Rocketman Gaining Steam with MINI Executives
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, We Want the Rocketman
Last week we [asked](https://www.motoringfile.com/2015/01/16/mf-poll-rocketman-or-superleggera/) MotoringFile readers which of the Rocketman or the Superleggera they would rather have MINI produce. Since both concepts present so much appeal, answering this question was no easy...
MF Poll: Rocketman or Superleggera?
With the FXX generation, one of MINI’s goals is to build a more focused lineup. While we could debate for endless hours the meaning of the word “focus” in the five super-hero...
MINI’s Five Superhero Cars Strategy Clarified
Unfortunately, we don’t have the details of MINI’s strategy in that regard, but words from Peter Schwarzenbauer – left on this picture and BMW AG Board Member – reported yesterday by [Automotive...