The MINI brand and BMW Group’s UK manufacturing plants in Oxford and Swindon are celebrating twenty successful years of MINI production. In early 2001, production began for MINI body parts in Swindon and on the 26th April that same year, the first new MINI rolled off the line in Oxford.
A timeline of all MINI milestones since 2001.
A brief history of Classic Mini milestones between 1959 - 2000.
The original in the premium segment of small cars has reached its 60th birthday – but it is even younger than ever. It was sixty years ago, to be precise on 26 August 1959, that British Motor Corporation (BMC) proudly revealed the result of their development activities in creating a new, revolutionary compact car.
• Creative MINI Installation Competition at Body & Soul Festival (June). • Historic Festival at Mondello Park with MINI theme pay homages to iconic brand (Aug). • MINI Magic to provide thrilling Track Day experience for owners and enthusiasts (Sep).
Plant Oxford today celebrates 15 years since the first new MINIs rolled off the production line on 26 April, 2001.
BMW will be the Central Feature Marque at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
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BMW reinvents itself: The BMW Vision Neue Klasse.
The reinvention of an icon: the new all-electric MINI Cooper.
The all-new MINI Countryman.
The new BMW 5 Series.
The BMW XM Label Red.