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MINI Successful at Nürburgring 24 Hours :
Official News from MINI Motorsports: Competitors spend months preparing for what is possibly the most challenging endurance race in the world. The performance of the car is optimised. The driving crew comes up with an elaborate plan to determine the order, in which they will take to the iconic track in order to achieve maximum success at the 24-hour race. The mechanics puzzle out how they can get the best possible performance out of their cars, … Read entire article »
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MINI – ReBorn in the Netherlands :
As soon as the second half of 2014 MINIs will once again be made in the Netherlands. To mark the occasion BMW is sponsoring the restoration of a 1959 Mini originally assembled at Molenaar’s Car Factory in Amersfoort, Holland. We’ll be talking more about MINI’s production plans and how they will be tweaked for the introduction of the 3rd generation later this year. Official Release: Today VDL Nedcar employees started the restoration of one of the … Read entire article »
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The Mini Club of Ireland win Best Newcomer Prize at Ballincollig St. Patrick’s Day Parade :
The Mini Club of Ireland attended the Ballincollig St. Patrick’s Day Parade this year and we had a great turnout of both Mini’s & MINI’s. We won Best Newcomer Award too !! … Read entire article »
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MINI Plant Oxford Celebrates 100 Years of Building Cars :
Official news release: MINI Plant Oxford celebrates 100 years of car-making this March, against a background of rising production, increased investment and continuing expansion. Today, Plant Oxford employs 3700 associates who manufacture up to 900 MINIs every day, and has contributed over 2.25 million MINIs to the tally of over 11.65 million cars that the factory has produced since 1913. The first car built at the factory, a Bullnose Morris Oxford, emerged on 28 March 1913 and … Read entire article »
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A Look Back at the Three Generation of the MINI Cooper & Cooper S :
As MINI gears up to release the entirely new MINI Cooper and Cooper S in early autumn it’s time for a look back and where the model has come from. The idea, hatched by brilliant Formula One designer John Cooper, to fuel the agile small car with an extra hit of performance and a car for the road and track has lost none of its appeal. But the Cooper has never been about horsepower, as … Read entire article »
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Video: MINI Lands Unassisted Backflip :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ry-ofJHatGs On a snowy ramp in Tignes, France, aptly-described daredevil Guerlain Chicherit successfully backflipped a MINI Countryman racing car. MINI teased this stunt back in January, but neglected to show us how the landing went in that port-side attempt. Call me skeptical, but I imagine that if the landing had gone as planned, we’d have seen it. Forgetting the earlier attempts, now MINI is showing us the whole stunt gone well. Video after the jump. What makes the stunt remarkable is not that it’s a backflip, but that it’s an unassisted backflip. There was no stunt “kick” built into the bottom of the car to get it rotated all the way around. The car did it all on its own, or at least, fully on the shape of the ramp. It’s one hell of … Read entire article »
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