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...
The Forgotten JCW Concept: MINI Clubman Vision Gran Turismo
In 2014, MINI Design slipped the leash. Freed from crash regs, pedestrian safety rules, and the dull thrum of real-world feasibility, they built something wild—but only in pixels. The MINI Clubman Vision Gran...
The Secret War That Shaped the MINI Cooper’s Future
As MINI plots its future, it’s worth stepping back to one of the most transformative eras in the brand’s history—the 1990s. This was a defining decade when BMW found itself at a...
Crushing MINIs to Build New Ones – Inside BMW’s Largest Recycling Center
The first thing I noticed walking into BMW’s massive recycling center in Unterschleißheim, Germany shocked me. The original F54 MINI Clubman concept under a tarp prepped and ready to be destroyed recycled...
MINI Experiments with a Revolutionary Mix reality Driving Experience
Today MINI is taking the wraps off of what they call MINI Mixed Reality. A merging the virtual and real worlds, MINI Mixed Reality immerses drivers in a virtual world that works...
Could MINI Be Making an Electric Motorbike?
MINI has shown off electric two-wheel concepts before and even sells an e-bike in Europe today. And then there’s even the Cooper E-Bike from Cooper bikes, run by our friend Charlie Cooper....
MINI’s Secret Concepts From the 90s That Almost Changed the MINI Cooper Forever
If you think the new J01 MINI Cooper EV is a radical departure, wait until you see what MINI was cooking up in the 1990s. As MINI ushers in an entirely new...
The Electric MINI Superleggera & How MINI Almost Built It’s Most Stunning Concept Ever
For MINI fans the recently released book BMW by Design has a number of fascinating stories. But the one that particularly stands out is the story of the electric MINI Superleggera concept....
MINI Urbanaut Being Considered for Production
The radical MINI Urbanaut concept is being considered for production according to MINI head of Design Oliver Heilmer. As first reported on Autocar, the brand is looking at the feasibility of such...