Entries Tagged as ‘Mini’

December 19, 2008

What’s the smallest car you can fit a Christmas tree in?

We took on the challenge of squeezing a seven foot Christmas tree into a Mini Clubman.
We tried sliding the tree through the sunroof, through the side windows and across the back seats - which didn’t work.
This got us thinking – what’s the smallest car you can fit a tree in?

April 28, 2008

Living with a convertible

I’ve got a Mazda MX-5 on loan at the moment and it came just in time for the first properly warm weekend of the year.
So I set off with my girlfriend for a countryside blast with the roof folded down and judging by the number of other convertibles we saw - Porsche Boxsters, BMW 3 [...]

February 15, 2008

Green BMW?

BMW, who produces the X5 SUV and several powerful sports cars, is not the first car company you’d think of as being ‘green’.

February 13, 2008

Which motors move you?

Valentines Day is upon us – and to celebrate we’ve rounded up the hottest cars to fall in love with.

December 26, 2007

Our Cars of the Year: Mini Clubman

Feature Writer Alex Eckford’s Car of the Year is the Mini Clubman.
Women stopped and stared. Van drivers gave the thumbs up.
It’s not a supercar, and it won’t get you from 0-60 in three seconds, but the Mini Clubman got the most attention of any car I’ve driven this year. Much more than Toyota’s new-in-2007 Yaris [...]

November 2, 2007

The head-turning Mini Clubman

The Auto Trader team are proud recipients of a Mini Clubman this week – and it’s proved to be a real head-turner.
Yesterday Alex Eckford and Andy Goodwin set out in the Clubman to circumnavigate the entire M25. In one go.
The ‘road to hell’ provided its fair share of ups and downs, but the unexpected part [...]

September 28, 2007

Not made in Britain: the Mini Clubman

 

While BMW trumpeted the news that its gorgeous CS concept will go into production, the announcement that the Mini Clubman will not be built in Britain was met with a more muted response.
The Mini has been a raging success for BMW, but this will be the first time it has been built outside Britain.
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