Yesterday will go down in automotive history as the day Mini, a go-kart-like hatchback brand, introduced a crossover – the Mini Countryman. The 2011 Mini Countryman will hit the stateside market early next year with two gasoline engine options including the base 1.6L 4-cylinder Mini Countryman and a turbocharged Countryman S. According to Mini’s UK [...]
Earlier this morning BMW released the details on the 2011 Mini Countryman for the European market. We now have the U.S. press release detailing what the 2011 Countryman will offer us on the stateside. The Mini Countryman will go on sale in the U.S. in early 2011 and will be available with two gasoline engine [...]
Meet the new and fourth model from Mini with four doors, four seats and available four-wheel-drive – the Mini Countryman (Mini tells us that the name may vary in some markets). After a little leak yesterday, Mini today dropped all the details and images on the new Mini Countryman, which will make its public debut [...]
Following a teaser from Mini yesterday, the first pictures of the company’s upcoming crossover have been leaked. We’re still not sure as to what the model will be called, but so far it’s been known as the Countryman and the Crossman. From the three leaked photos, you can tell that there will be a Cooper [...]
Usually when you see spy shots of an upcoming model you’ll see a bunch of camouflage covering the true design of the vehicle. Keeping that theme going until the covers come off at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, Mini has just dropped a teaser of its new Crossover wearing heavy camouflage traveling through a camouflaged [...]
Last we heard anything about the Mini Countryman it was reported that the crossover would debut at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show. It was originally supposed to debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. Well, according to MotoringFile, the Countryman launch has once again been delayed to the 2010 Geneva Motor Show in March. Sources [...]
BMW has a lot planned for the upcoming 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show next month. The automaker is set to reveal not one, but two hybrid vehicles including the ActiveHybrid 7 and the ActiveHybrid X6. According to sources who spoke with Mini enthusiast website MotoringFile, BMW has decided to move up the launch of the Speedster/Coupe [...]
For a while now, we’ve come to believe that Mini’s new Crossover due out next year will be called the “Crossman.” Right after its debut, its was reported that the “Crossman” name had been ditched and that the “Maxi” name was the leading contender for the Crossover. Well, cross all that out. According to a [...]
BMW Group is considering a rival to the Volkswagen Golf GTI based on the upcoming Mini Crossover platform due to hit the market next year. The model has yet to be green-lighted but insiders say that if approved, the car will be built alongside the Mini Crossover at the Magna Steyr factory in Austria. According [...]
Ever since its debut at the 2008 Paris Motor Show, we’ve heard very little about the Mini Crossover Concept. According to the head of Mini brand management Wolfgang Armbrecht, the automaker approved the production version of the Crossover Concept just four weeks after its Paris debut. The production version of the Mini Crossover will make [...]
