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The Countryman WRC is the rallying version of Mini Cooper S ALL4 developed with Prodrive beginning in early 2009, with a 1.6-litre, four-cylinder turbo-charged engine from BMW Motorsport. The first test drive for the Mini Countryman WRC, which would also be available to customer teams, was planned for autumn 2010. [71]
A 2006 Mini Cooper S Checkmate Interior (pre-facelift) The Mk I Mini One, Cooper and Cooper S all used variants of the Brazilian-built Tritec engine, co-developed by US-based Chrysler and BMW; the Mini One D used a Toyota 1ND-TV diesel engine. In August 2006, BMW announced that future engines would be built in Great Britain, making the car ...
Mini Cooper may refer to: Performance Cars of the original Mini series with uprated drive train and brakes, called the "Mini Cooper", made by the British Motor Corporation and also the successors 1961–1971, and 1990–2000; Cars of the Mini (marque), including several different models produced by BMW since 2000 with the "Mini Cooper" title:
Mini Countryman WRC car. On 27 July 2010, Mini announced plans to enter the World Rally Championship. [115] The Countryman is the chosen donor model and Prodrive have been selected to prepare the Mini Countryman WRC. The factory team competed in a reduced programme for the 2011 WRC season, before cutting funding.
In 2014, work began on the MINI Clubman VGT, which was designed for the videogame Gran Turismo 6. [17] The car features four-wheel drive [18] and carbon fibre components to save weight, [19] and at nearly 400 horsepower, is one of the most powerful Minis. [20] It was made available to players via an update in February 2015. [21]
The Mini Coupé and Mini Roadster are two-seater sports cars that were engineered and manufactured by German automaker BMW under the Mini marque between 2011 and 2015. The hardtop Coupé was unveiled in June 2011 and formally launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2011. [2] Production was shown in the 2011 documentary Megafactories.
The Mini Electric was previewed by a concept car, the Mini Electric Concept at the 2017 Frankfurt IAA. [21] The production Mini Cooper SE was announced in July 2019 [1] and the international launch was held six months later in Miami, where BMW touted the fleet of press cars would be charged using renewable sources of energy. [22]
The car has a peak power of 80 kW or 108 hp and a battery capacity of 35 kWh covering 210 km. [24] Its first prototype was unveiled on 15 August 2022. [24] Pakistan, in collaboration with China, has introduced its first-ever electric car company, Topsun Motors, which inaugurated its showroom in Jail Road of Lahore on 3 January 2020. [25]