BMW, the official automotive partner for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has revealed its full London 2012 fleet. The brand will have around 4,000 vehicles at the games assisting with any daily tasks. “Whether it be pulling boats out of the water at Weymouth, providing a mobile camera platform for the marathon, towing [...]
What do you get when you take a man, a wingsuit, a canyon and a Mini Countryman John Cooper Works? This crazy ass video. Check it out after the jump. Refresher: Power for the 2013 Mini John Cooper Works Countryman comes from 1.6 liter turbocharged engine making 211-hp at 6,000 rpm and a peak torque of 207 lb-ft [...]
We already know that the Mini Paceman Concept will be going into production. Why? Because, there is a market for really small crossovers and SUVs and I guess that market consists of individuals that don’t like sitting in low-riding hatchbacks. Either way – when the Mini Paceman Concept does go on sale next year as [...]
Okay may be not – but Mini did have a very creative display that showed a Mini John Cooper Works Countryman hanging from the wall. The Mini John Cooper Works Countryman will go on sale as the high-performance version of the model in markets later this year. Click here for our original post on the Mini [...]
Want to see the new 2013 Mini John Cooper Works Countryman in action? Well, you’re in luck because Mini has just dropped a video of the new high-performance Countryman hanging out in the desert showing of its stuff. Check out the video after the jump. Click here for our original post on the Mini John [...]
The Mini Countryman lineup will grow at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show with the debut of the John Cooper Works model, making it the first time that Mini will off the high-performance racing touch in combination with all-wheel-drive. Visually, the new 2013 Mini John Cooper Works Countryman will come standard with an aerodynamic kit, 18-inch [...]
Mini’s success is something that goes beyond questioning and because BMW has been at the helm of the British manufacturer ever since their reintroduction in 2002, in addition to the fact that Mini’s are very sporty oriented hatchbacks, reports are saying that Mini now wants to adopt the brand’s familiar tuning firm, John Cooper Works, [...]
In a move that makes Mini look like a mental micro-niching Mercedes Benz, Kay Segler, Mini’s global chairperson, said that the company will be offering ten different models by the end of the decade. Currently there are seven models: the Cooper, Convertible, Coupe, Roadster (coming next month), Countryman, and Clubman, and new Countryman Coupe (1st [...]
Last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was looking into some mysterious cases with some turbocharged Mini cars randomly catching fire. My humorous side would tell me: I’m not surprised, it’s British. But we’re long past the days of terrible electronics from the Prince of Darkness, Lucas. As a result, the NHTSA stepped in [...]
Banbury-based engineering firm Prodrive is at work on a hot version of the Mini Countryman. The company already runs Mini’s World Rally Championship program. Prodrive boss Dave Richards has previously said that the road-tuned Mini’s by the firm were possible. “Mini obviously has the Cooper and John Cooper Works brands and it will want to work [...]
