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 »

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 »

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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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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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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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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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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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’s small car darling, Fiesta, has been making giant size inroads into the competitive light vehicle segment during 2006.
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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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