MINI and Rolls-Royce built a car together that may be the truest collaboration between two automotive brands in recent memory. Real Rolls-Royce paint, real Rolls-Royce materials, real Rolls-Royce suppliers. And yet one...
A MINI executive has now said it publicly what we’ve heard for the last year: the round display is staying, and MINI expects to keep improving it. Alexander Brockhoff, general manager of...
MINI Plant Oxford has started moving new cars around its own site without anyone behind the wheel, and it arrives as BMW Group announces that its Automated Driving In-Plant system (AFW) has...
More than one in three MINIs sold worldwide is now electric, and North America can buy only one of the three electric models. Here’s the story of how this came to be...
Two years into the job, MINI’s head of design says the most important work his team has done is not a concept car. It is getting the cars MINI already sells noticed....
Ferrari’s new manual is not a manual, and the journalists who have now driven it have largely stopped caring. The 12Cilindri Manuale puts a clutch pedal and an open metal gate back...
The MINI Countryman Untamed Edition had been public for two days when it rolled off the line at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and it finished its first Rebelle Rally in a Glamis...
We got behind the wheel of a late validation prototype of the MINI Countryman Untamed, and it’s a drive with a different purpose than our earlier pre-production drive. That car showed us...
The MINI Countryman Untamed Edition was revealed on a Tuesday, handed to a rookie crew who had only recently met in person, and sent into eight stages and more than 2,500 kilometres...
MINI USA has taken the new 2027 MINI Countryman Untamed Edition from reveal to the desert in a matter of days, and it is doing the work close to showroom spec. Team...
MINI sales are up for the year but saw a slight decline in Q3. The brand delivered 220,247 vehicles worldwide in the first nine months of 2026, up 6.8%, which makes it...
MINI has been partnering with brands for years. But how those brands are chosen and how the partnership shows up in special editions and other products has been a bit of a...
MINI USA closed the third quarter of 2026 with 6,531 sales, down 10.2% from 7,270 a year ago. Buried in that number is the most surprising result of the year: the Cooper...
MINI’s first Rebelle Rally starts tomorrow. At 7am Pacific on October 8, the green flag drops at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and the new 2027 MINI Countryman Untamed Edition begins roughly 1,500...
The 2027 MINI Countryman Untamed Edition will start at $43,900 in the US, and the Untamed content itself costs just $1,600. For a 15 mm lift, a bespoke chassis calibration, exclusive 19-inch...
MINI’s off-road Countryman is official, and it arrives wearing a familiar name. The MINI Countryman Untamed Edition, revealed today at Lake Tahoe days before the brand’s Rebelle Rally debut, brings a suspension...
Monterey to Tahoe, by way of the PCH The California leg starts in Monterey, heads north along the Pacific Coast Highway to Sonoma, then cuts east toward Lake Tahoe. MINI lists the...
MINI debuts its first genuinely off-road Countryman on Tuesday, then sends it into its first Rebelle Rally days later. To celebrate these upcoming milestones, we’re looking back at the motorsport wins and...
The MINI Lifestyle Collection 2026 arrives in October, and for once the most interesting thing about a MINI merchandise launch is the paint code. Rather than inventing a seasonal palette in a...
The Countryman EV that eventually replaces today’s SE ALL4 is not getting an update, it’s getting a completely different foundation. BMW’s Gen6 platform, debuting under the Neue Klasse, throws out nearly every...
The MINI Superleggera – that now legendary MINI concept was seen casually parked on Kufsteiner Straße in Munich this week. It sat at the curb between a smart fortwo and an air-cooled...
MINI’s first genuinely off-road Countryman is almost here. The car we first reported on in March 2025, and which MINI has since been testing in the Rocky Mountains, is now weeks from its October...
Sources have told MotoringFile that BMW will be making a final decision on production of the next-generation MINI Cooper EV in October, and it won’t be China, at least not for the...
On paper, the choice between the F65 MINI Cooper Five-Door and the U25 Countryman looks straightforward. One is a small hatchback with extra doors, the other is a small crossover with extra...
At a technical briefing at its Miramas proving ground, BMW detailed the chassis and powertrain of the next 3 Series, from the base 320 and the M350 xDrive. Power, torque and efficiency...
MINI has officially revealed the 1998 GT Edition, the sixth of eight releases in its Icon Drops calendar, and the car confirms almost everything we told you it would be back in February...
Paramount Pictures is developing a follow-up to The Italian Job, and Paul Feig is attached to direct, according to a report from Deadline. A writers’ room is being assembled now, and no...
What VW’s Crisis Means for the Next MINI Cooper Volkswagen is preparing to cut as many as 100,000 jobs and shrink its model lineup by roughly half. Operating profit fell from €19...
A Secretive Shop, Finally Opened Ben Bertucci spent five years earning access to Naito Auto Engineering, a three generation restoration shop in Tokyo that has spent decades quietly working on some of...
The next MINI Cooper EV’s likely move to rear-wheel drive isn’t the clean break it looks like. MINI tried something close to it before, in the mid-1990s, years before the R50 that...
MINI is at a crossroads with its most important nameplate. The Cooper isn’t going anywhere, that much is settled. But nearly everything else about its next chapter is still coming into focus:...
Recently we wrote about how the Countryman has never really looked like a MINI with its aggressive face and angular headlights. So we decided to take matters into to our own hands...
MINI USA and the John Cooper Works Race Team are in Bemidji, Minnesota this weekend for the Ojibwe Forest Rally, round six of eight in the 2026 American Rally Association National Championship....
We covered the MINI 1965 Victory Edition back in February, working from BMW’s press kit like everyone else did. Chili Red paint, a Glazed White roof, a No. 52 on the doors, “1965” stitched...
