Mario Testino Life Ball Mini on Ebay

May 31st, 2007 by gary

Film cameras whirred and photo cameras clicked as Mario Testino unveiled the Life Ball MINI 2007, designed by him, on Saturday, 26 May at the official Life Ball press conference in the Hotel Imperial, with the help of Sharon Stone and Nadja Auermann. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mini United goes Dutch in 2007

May 15th, 2007 by gary

MINI UNITED MISANO, held in Italy in late 2005 was a huge success. A weekend festival to celebrate the world of MINI, the inaugural event attracted more than 6,000 MINI fans from 40 countries around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

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Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim

April 21st, 2007 by gary

The Auto & Technik Museum in Sinsheim Germany is one of the best transport museums in the world. The museum contains hundreds of cars as well as an IMAX 3D theatre, aircraft and military vehicles. The museum’s star attraction is the fact it is the only museum in the world to feature both the Concorde and the Russian Tupolov TU144 supersonic jets side by side.
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Technik Museum Speyer

April 21st, 2007 by gary

Situated in Speyer Germany The Technik Museum is about 1 hour away from its bigger brother the Auto and Technik Museum in Sinsheim. The Speyer museum features plenty of great exhibits you can take a good look at like an Antanov 22, a 747 Jumbo and an IMAX Dome Theatre. In addition to this there are plenty of cars for the car lover to see.    
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Fiesta XR4 Set to Sizzle in Hot Hatch Segment

March 2nd, 2007 by gary

Ford Australia took the wraps off the new Fiesta XR4 at the Melbourne International Motor Show today, confirming its mid-year arrival.  The XR4 is known as a Fiesta ST in other parts of the world but badged as XR4 in Australia to make it part of the “XR family”.
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Peugeot 207 debuts at the Melbourne International Motor Show

February 27th, 2007 by gary

The Melbourne International Motor Show is always an important event for Peugeot and this year the show has been chosen for the sales launch of the all new 207 hatch and the debut of the 207CC and 207GTi.

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Smart fortwo Australian sales record

January 5th, 2007 by gary

Melbourne In another success for smart, the smart fortwo has celebrated its best ever annual sales, according to industry figures released today.
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The New smart fortwo to Make its US Debut at Detroit

December 22nd, 2006 by gary

Stuttgart – The new smart fortwo will celebrate its US premiere at next month’s North American International Auto Show, to be held in Detroit (January 7 to 21, 2007).
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Ford Fiesta Australian sales success

October 26th, 2006 by gary

Ford’s small car darling, Fiesta, has been making giant size inroads into the competitive light vehicle segment during 2006.
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MINI Production Links Three Modern UK Plants

September 15th, 2006 by gary

The start of series production of the new MINI also signals the start of a new production network for MINI comprising three BMW Group manufacturing facilities in the UK. The MINI production triangle in the UK with its plants at Hams Hall, Oxford and Swindon has received substantial investment of nearly £200 million to build the new model and to increase MINI production capacity by 20 percent up to 240,000 units a year in the medium-term. The new production triangle employs in total 6,350 associates, a number set to increase by 450 to 6,800 in the medium-term as production nears the maximum capacity of 240,000 MINIs per annum. 
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