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    Kansas City man wins trip to England for logging most topless hours in a Mini
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    2009 Mini Cooper S Convertible (above), Openometer (inset) – Click above for high-res image gallery
    Ever wonder what possible use the Openometer could have? The tiny dashboard gauge is found only in the Mini convertible and tracks the number of hours a Mini motorist has been driving with ...

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    Video: More Mini Countryman action, fewer no yellow camo paint jobs
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    Mini Countryman video footage - Click above to watch video
    If you can't get enough of the forthcoming Mini Countryman, twelve minutes of new footage that doesn't involve yellow swirlies has found its way onto the 'Net. Thankfully, there's no annoying musical soundtrack, so you can see and hear ...

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    Report: BMW sues amusement park over Mini coaster
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    BMW gave us the Mini Cooper, Mini Convertible and Mini Clubman. We've also seen the Mini Countryman, Mini Coupé and Mini Roadster. Well, how about a Mini roller coaster? According to The Sun News, Freestyle Music Park of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is operating a roller coaster with ...

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    Mini announces engine enhancements ahead of 2011 redesign
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    2010 Mini Cooper - Click for high-res gallery
    Over in Europe, Mini has rolled out a thing or two to keep its offerings fresh. There's some model jiggering and new colors, but the biggest news is under that peewee hood. The four-cylinder engine is receiving a displacement bump from 1.4- to ...

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    REPORT: Mini to debut off-road Moke concept in Detroit
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    According to the know-it-alls (in a good way, naturally) at MotoringFile, America's second-smallest brand plans to debut a new R60 Countryman-based soft-roader called the Mini Moke at the Detroit Auto Show next month. What's more, if public reaction is favorable enough, the Moke could be in ...

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    Rumormill: Mini Coupe and Roadster could go on sale as early as 2011
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    MINI Coupe and Roadster Concepts - Click above for high-res image gallery
    The Mini Coupe and Roadster concepts have been making their way around the auto show circuit since Frankfurt in September, and when we saw the two vehicles at the LA Auto Show we got the impression that the high end micros ...

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    LA 2009: Mini owns its inner Bulldog
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    Leashed Mini Cooper S Clubman - Click above for high-res image gallery
    Mini may be many things, but stuffy they're not. When your business consists of selling tiny hatchbacks with sports car handling at a near luxury price, you really can't take yourself too seriously all the time. Mini ad ...

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    LA 2009: MINI Coupe & Roadster Concepts are so LA
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    MINI Coupe and Roadster Concepts - Click above for high-res image gallery
    Mini brought its birthday presents to itself out to the LA Auto Show for their North American debut today. The Cambden and Mayfair were there, but we spent a lot more time ogling the Coupe and Roadster. As you may recall, ...

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    Rumormill: Mini delaying U.S. launch of Countryman crossover
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    Mini Countryman concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
    A couple weeks back, we told you that the unveiling of the production Mini Countryman may be delayed from the Detroit Auto Show in January to the Geneva Motor Show in March. The reasoning behind the move was reportedly due to ...

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    REPORT: Mini's future models roadmapped
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    MINI Coupe Concept and Roadster Concept - Click above for a high-res image gallery
    If you'll please forgive us our one tired cliché of the day... BMW has big plans in store for its smallest brand. In this case, quite literally as the next model that comes from Mini will reportedly be the ...

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    Mini uses spare art for new 2010 calendar
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    Minimalism Calendar -- Click above for high-res image gallery
    Mini made a calendar. Or rather, Mini assembled a calendar with artworks chosen from among thousands submitted from around the globe. The calendar's theme is Minimalism, and the only rule for submissions was to include a silhouette of ...

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    Mini getting into the Halloween spirit for Motor-Tober
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    Mini Motor-Tober ad - Click above for high-res image gallery
    They call it Motor-Tober, and it's as made up as the R56 Mini's claims to the lineage of the original car. What's not fake are the deals you'll find on 2009 inventory. Before the snow flies, there's still time to enjoy the Mini's famed ...

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    VIDEO: Third installment in the Mini concept trilogy goes all the way (NSFW)
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    Third Mini concept teaser -- Click above to watch video
    Just in time for the weekend, the third Mini concept teaser features a Shining-esque beginning and a NSFW ending. Whether you like your hot model types to be good girls or bad, this clip has something for you. And now we definitely expect ...

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    VIDEO: Second teaser for pair of Mini concepts steps further into Bizzareland
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    Second Mini concept teaser -- Click above to watch video
    The second video has arrived for the "2 B THRILLED" and "2 B DESIRED" Mini concepts that will show up in Frankfurt next week. This one moves things on a bit from the last one, but it's just as girl-power-ified and just as odd. At this ...

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    VIDEO: Abstract teaser hints at Mini concept duo for Frankfurt
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    Click the image above to view the video after the jump
    For better or worse, many regard the Mini Cooper as a chick's car. But rather than fighting that idea before it unveils a pair of concepts at the Frankfurt show, the BMW's Mini division has released this conceptual teaser video that, ...

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    BMW confirms MINI coupe and another car headed for production in Oxford
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    The Mini Coupé Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery
    BMW Chairman Norbert Riethofer paid a visit to the Mini factory in Oxford England this week to inform staff members that they will soon have two new cars to build. The first confirmed model for production is the Coupe concept ...

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    VIDEO: That's Entertainment - Mini celebrates the big 5-0 with a bit of rock n' roll
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    Mini's 50th Birthday Video - Click above to watch video after the jump
    On August 26, 1959, the world caught a glimpse of a Mini for the first time. Little did company founders know that the Mini would later be named the second most influential vehicle of the 20th century, on its way to a half ...

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    IIHS tests roof strength on microcars, Smart Fortwo comes out on top
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    IIHS microcar roof tests - Click above for high-res image gallery
    The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has just tested the latest batch of the smallest cars on the market to determine the strength of their roofs in the event of a rollover accident. Coming out on top with a "good" rating was ...

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    Caption Contest: Sinclair C5 EV is a Segway for the even lazier
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    What you're looking at is a 1985 photo of the Sinclair C5, a titchy electrically motivated trike of which 12,000(!) were reportedly sold. We stumbled across this gem of an image, and after your enthusiastic response to yesterday's Roller at Wal-Mart snapshot (over 200 captions at last count), we've ...

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    Rumormill: Mini could be headed for WRC by adapting new crossover model
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    MINI Crossover concept - Click above for hi-res image gallery
    The original Mini Cooper earned its performance credentials back in the 1960s being flung about on the Monte Carlo rally. Paddy Hopkirk won the Monte in 1964 at the wheel of a Cooper S. While modern Minis are still considered fun to ...

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