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MINI Breaks Records In 2011 – To Be Repeated In 2012?

January 9, 2012

It’s a MINI New Year quiz – so it’s only got one question! When Prime Minister David Cameron drove the two millionth MINI off of the production line at Plant Oxford in August last year, how far would all of those cars stretch if placed bumper to bumper? That production landmark was just one of [...]

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EVO Drives The Countryman WRC

October 11, 2011

Sometimes, you’ll just think “Damn, I want his/her job!”. This video demonstrates this thought particularly well as Henry Catchpole of EVO drives the frankly incredible MINI Countryman WRC car. Just look at that thing drift! I’m not sure of the colour scheme but other than that it looks like one hell of a ride.

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MINI Cooper SD Reviewed By Fifth Gear

September 17, 2011

This is the review that you’ve been waiting for if you’re a MINI fan; it’s the new SD! It’s placed firmly between the Cooper S in that it has performance, but it has a lovely torquey diesel engine of the Cooper D. Does it manage to carry off the best of both worlds though? Watch [...]

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New MINI Coupe

July 16, 2011

It seems that new cars just get better and better looking. This is the fabulous new MINI Coupe and it’s an incredible two seater sports car with the usual go-kart handling and exuberant performance. This new car is Built in Britain at the MINI Plant at Oxford and goes on sale from 1st October 2011 [...]

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MINI WRC Team Announce Sordo As New Driver

January 7, 2011
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Spanish driver Daniel “Dani” Sordo will be joining the MINI team when the 2011 WRC season starts, joining the always affable Kris Meeke (who just happens to be our best hope from GB at the moment). “There has been a great deal of excitement surrounding MINI’s return to the WRC, so to be part of [...]

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MINI Countryman Makes UK Debut

September 7, 2010
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Here’s the latest from MINI on their newest car, the Countryman. Sure to be a success, the new MINI is now ubiquitous on UK roads and I can vouch for the popularity – a street only a couple of hundred metres from my house has 4 MINIs! The Countryman is the largest in the MINI [...]

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MINI Beachcomber Concept

December 22, 2009

Here’s a great new video from Autocar – it’s an interview with the designer of the new MINI Beachcomber concept. Gert Hildebrand talks Autocar through the car, including inspiration, features and the reason behind the concept. It looks extremely funky and I can see it selling very well, albeit in a form that loses some [...]

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MINI Convertible – Geneva Motor Show

March 3, 2009

Oh dear, BMW, who the hell are you kidding?  Apparently, the nippy new MINI John Cooper Works Convertible is being classed as a ‘small premium cabriolet’.  Oh puhhhlease.  Granted, it’ll hit 62 in 6.9 – but ‘small premium’?  These car classifications just get stranger. Anyway, the new ragtop has the same engine as the John [...]

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MINI – Why Not?

April 3, 2008

Apparently, the best thing to buy these days is a Mini.  Why is that, I hear you ask?  Well, very simple.  The Mini is the most popular car on the social networking site Facebook.  I guess they found that out through one of their scientific surveys of course.  Well, there’s 24,000 members of Mini Cooper [...]

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