All Mini articles – Page 4
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Mini Yours: 'When personalization becomes art'
The Mini, in both British Leyland and BMW formats, has always been famous for its limitless personalization options. From fluffy dice around the mirror to Union Jack roofs and beyond, there is no route that hasn't been explored with the cheeky city car.
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Revival of the Minivan
The latest revision, directed by Ralph Gilles for the 2008 model year, gave the vehicle a more truck-like front end, to woo buyers away from SUVs. The wider grille and larger headlights lent a touch of elegance and formality. The forms were as simple and strong as that of Gilles's ...
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Revival of the Minivan
A couple of years ago I met a young designer at Chrysler's studios in Auburn Hills, Michigan. He had grown up in a minivan, he told me, and he felt the special love-hate relationship for it that is associated with places from childhood. "No one wants their parents' car," he ...
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Driven: Mini Countryman
But does the concept of a four-meter Mini translate to use in the real world? We tentatively took the keys to find out...
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Driven: Mini Clubman
The Mini Clubman is one of the most interesting - but polarizing - car designs on the market today. The first generation 'new' Mini was a big success for BMW, despite having been such a huge leap from the original Mini design in so many ways. With the second generation ...
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Anders Warming to replace Gert Hildebrand as Design Director at Mini
Mini is set to get a new Design Director at the start of the new year. Gert Volker Hildebrand will pass the reigns to current Head of Exterior Design at BMW Cars, Anders Warming, the German automaker announced today.
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Design Development: Mini Rocketman concept
Annette Baumeister, head of Color and Trim, played with the color palette with the Rocketman, creating a most interesting design. Highlights of bright red can be found throughout the interior, alongside the dominant palette of warm grays, silver, chrome and the lacquered gray/black of carbon-fiber, in what Sieghart refers to ...
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Design Development: Mini Rocketman concept
The Mini Rocketman, unveiled at the Geneva motor show in March, aims to breathe new life into the classic Mini.
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Mini Vision concept: what does it say about the brand's future?
The sight of Mini design head Anders Warming presenting a holographic, 3D projection of the Mini Vision concept as if appearing in his own cartoon was certainly a new one on us, but it captured the quirky, slightly left-field image the subsidiary of BMW Group has cultivated since its relaunch ...
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Who's Where: Christopher Weil becomes head of Mini exterior design, Marcus Syring head of Rolls-Royce exteriors
An internal reshuffle in Munich has seen Christopher Weil appointed head of exterior design for Mini, replacing Marcus Syring who takes up a similar position at Rolls-Royce.
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Design Review: Mini Concept Frankfurt
The Mini Concept Frankfurt offers a glimpse of how Mini brand might be extended in future to offer a premium coupe-station wagon bodystyle that references the Mini Traveller launched exactly 45 years ago. The Morris Mini Traveller and Austin Countryman were popular estate versions of the Mini, which were targeted ...
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Design Review: Mini Concept Frankfurt
The Mini Concept Frankfurt offers a glimpse of how Mini brand might be extended in future to offer a premium coupe-station wagon bodystyle that references the Mini Traveller launched exactly 45 years ago. The Morris Mini Traveller and Austin Countryman were popular estate versions of the Mini, which were targeted ...
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Design Development: Mini Clubman
The split-door opening is ingenious however. To allow as wide an opening as possible, the hinges are positioned outboard of the tail lamps and each door closes around the lamp unit. But it was complicated with the hinge point, the strut and the DIN regulations on the lamp too. "This ...
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Design Development: Mini Clubman
The Mini Clubman is the third derivative of the Mini family to be launched since its introduction in 2001. The unique station wagon body style references the original Morris Mini Traveller and Austin Mini Countryman introduced in 1960 under the motto "Revolutionary in concept, smart in appearance". Indeed, that slogan ...
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Interview: Gert Hildebrandt, Director of Design, Mini
CDN: What achievements are you most proud of as a designer?
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Interview: Gert Hildebrandt, Director of Design, Mini
Gert Volker Hildebrandt has had an illustrious career within the german car industry for over twenty-five years, culminating in his current position as head of the Mini design team in Munich. Having originally studied at the RCA in London, he started his career at Opel in January 1981, where his ...
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Designer Interviews: Anders Warming, Mini director of design
CDN Will you do another Paceman and Coupe? AW We've got seven models now, but there is a general tendency within the company to want to focus the brand again. Mini is a promise and about urban lifestyle.
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Designer Interviews: Anders Warming, Mini director of design
As Mini's modern rejuvenation has developed from a single model to a seven-car range, its design language has stretched well beyond the comfort zone of its original fans. Overall sales may be booming - in 2013 its global tally hit a record 305,030 - but this figure hides poor numbers ...
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The Mini: growing up or just growing? by Peter Stevens
This post was re-published with the kind permission of Peter Stevens, one of Britain's most well-known and sought-after automotive and industrial designers. For more of his insights head over to his Facebook page.
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Design Development: Mini Clubman Concept
The Clubman Concept departs from the brand's previous one-layout-fits-all approach to interior design and explores a cabin architecture more suited to a significantly wider vehicle. The key elements of this are an even greater visual focus on the circular center instrument; a more open, layered IP architecture punctuated with strong ...
