Wheelers Blog & News tagged "mini"

Dubai, UAE. Daniel Schmidt, MINI Product Manager from the BMW Group headquarters in Munich, unveiled the latest instalment from MINI on the inaugural day of the Dubai International Motor Show, currently taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre. Media and MINI aficionados gathered around the new MINI Clubman as Schmidt demonstrated the spaciousness and matured design of the vehicle, which perfectly embodies MINI’s new, more grown-up visual identity.   Commenting on his visit at the...

MINI is still accomplishing more and more success in the region as BMW Group Middle East has announced that MINI’s annual sales growth reached 13% in the first six months of 2015! The car has proved its popularity with MINI Hatch, the second best-selling of the group in all eight markets. After re-launching MINI under BMW Group in 2001, global sales have increased up to five times in the first year, and now the annual MINI sales are 12 times higher. MINI was the first brand in the history...

  Classic cars can be good investments, great conversation pieces and can be a joy to drive, work on or merely look at!   If you don’t see why you should be dragging around a 30 year old car, we'd be more than happy to explain:   -Lucky for you vintage cars are usually cheaper.   -You can have a closer relationship with your car: You’ll be spending a lot of time in your garage of course; you’ll get to know your car pretty well… It’s just the beyond awesome to be able to restore it,...

MINI has announced plans to introduce their Augmented Vision system at the Shanghai Motor Show. Jointly developed with several Qualcomm companies, the Augmented Vision system is essentially a pair of high-tech glasses which can project driving information on the lens of the glasses. MINI was coy on specifications but said the glasses can act as a heads-up display and project navigation data - such as arrows - onto the road.  The system also shows message notifications and has an X-Ray mode...