Mini has made it clear that it is hard at work on a successor to the automaker’s bread-and-butter Cooper. Word has it we’ll get our first glimpse at the next-generation Mini toward the end of next year, and when it debuts, Sonny Lim believes the machine will be smaller, more mainstream and far less gimmicky than the current creation. Funk Flex
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Auto Talk: Mini Puts Goodwood Edition On Display At Harrods
If you want to buy a new car, you go to a car dealership. If you want to buy a ridiculously expensive and luxurious cashmere sweater in any color imaginable, you go to Harrods. At least that’s the way it once was, but these days the swanky London department store has been turning its front window display into an automotive showroom. Funk Flex Find Flex On Google+
Auto Talk: Mini changes tracks with Prodrive WRC team
The road taken by Mini to the World Rally Championship has been anything but smooth. After contesting a handful of rallies last season, Mini and Prodrive (the outfit running the team on the manufacturer’s behalf) was set to contest the full calendar this year. But then the team failed to register in time, and dumped the promising driver it had plucked from the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, and things did not look good. Funk Flex
Auto Talk: Mini drums up yet another special edition, the Highgate
We are more used to seeing this in the six-figure realm of the automotive world: a carmaker putting out one special edition after another. But both Mini and UK buyers love their specializations, so Mini has provided another one called the Highgate. It follows the Baker Street and Baywater editions as the new hotness for 2012. Funk Flex
Auto Talk: Mini Wants To Make JCW Its BMW M, Bring Diesel Models Stateside
As far as the Mini lineup goes, the John Cooper Works models sit at the very top of the performance spectrum. But that’s not enough for Mini’s (relatively) new chief Kay Segler. The German auto exec came to the post from the M division of parent company BMW, and that’s what Segler wants for the Mini brand as well. Funk Flex Find Flex On Google+
