MotoringFile’s MINI concept cars section explores the design studies, prototypes, and vision vehicles that previewed MINI’s future. These concepts reveal how MINI experiments with form, technology, and brand direction before production models arrive.
Today we’re looking back at the car that almost was – the MINI Superleggera Concept. Reportedly approved and then ultimately cancelled, the Superleggera succeeded in ushering in a new era of design...
How was the modern MINI born? Over the past 15 years MotoringFile has written much about Mini, Rover and BMW in the 1990s. Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of that...
MINI is planning a large display at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. The brand is displaying both of its recent concepts – the MINI JCW GP Concept and the MINI Electric Concept....
MINI will be bringing its recent MINI Electric concept to the LA Auto Show late this month along side it’s full suite of products. Not making the trip across the Atlantic is...
According to super-sleuth Georg Kacher (who usually gets things mostly correct) the BMW board approved the MINI Superleggera for production in 2018 three years ago. However instead of celebrating the impending release...
These concepts aren’t new (MINI’s was released last June) but in many ways this is our best look at the ideas behind them. Autonomous driving, car sharing, extreme luxury and the joy...
The MINI Vision Next 100 is MINI’s most futuristic concept perhaps ever. Because of that there’s quite a lot to understand and perhaps a bit to explain. To help with this Anders...
It’s here – the MINI Vision Next 100. This is MINI’s vision for its future has debuted in a stunning concept that’s set to debut in London this week. Earlier this year...
Earlier this year the BMW Group embarked on a year long celebration of the BMW brand’s hundredth year in existence. To celebrate the occasion they produced a stunning and thought provoking concept...
A MINI a with a trunk? It could be coming according to Peter Schwarzenbauer, BMW board member in charge of MINI. At the recent convertible launch Mr. Schwarzenbauer was surprisingly candid with...