Mini

The Mini E formula seemed questionable when the details were first released. Were people willing to shell out $850 a month to drive a converted Mini Cooper that only seats two and has a 100-mile range? That question was answered earlier this year when BMW offered year-long lease renewals to ...

Squaring off, in a way, against the escooter that Smart unveiled yesterday at the Paris Motor Show, is Mini's entry in the fanciful all-electric scooter category, the Scooter E. There are more differences here than just where ...

With the second half of the Mini E's twelve-month long field trial in the UK underway, parent company BMW has decided that now is as good a time as any to release its so-called "objective data" obtained during the first three months of the ...

Mini has shared plans with its Facebook fans (all 370,702 of them, making the automaker even more popular than David Hasselhoff) to bring its latest electric concept to the Paris Motor Show. Sporting the colors and insignia of ...

Packaging any engine into the restrictive area found under the Mini Cooper's bonnet can present a challenge for engineers. For example, Mini engineers managed to shoehorn the newly-released 1.6-liter four-cylinder diesel into the ...

PSA Peugeot Citroen, along with BMW, jointly developed the Mini's gasoline-fed engine and, until recently, PSA's diesel mill could be found under the bonnet of the little Cooper as well. With motivation partly ...

While the current crop of Minis aren't exactly mini anymore, the company's upcoming city car concept – described as a Smart ForTwo rival – should help fill the void. Mini is putting a heavy emphasis on the word rival, otherwise, we might think Mini ...

Earlier this year, Mini USA Vice President of Marketing Jim McDowell was quoted as saying that we "shouldn't wait for a hybrid." Well, we're not exactly on pins and needles or anything, but it would seem that Mini is indeed working on hybrids of one kind or another. How do we know? Spy shooters in ...

It's no secret that the Mini name doesn't exactly mean what it used to. While just about every car currently available has grown in size over the years, there's just no getting around the fact that the new Mini is a full size larger than the original. And each new model that comes from the German ...

The adorable, yet not entirely practical, Mini E was one of the the first electric vehicles (EVs) produced by a major automaker to grace our roads. Unfortunately, it may also be Mini's last attempt at an electric ever, or at least for a good ...