Have you caught the new film-spoof TV ads for the Mini Convertible yet? 'Lassie comes home in Minis' is the best, with 'Mutiny on the Bounty' a close second. They play for laughs and don't pretend you ...

When the original Mini was launched in 1959, the diesel car market was virtually non-existent. Four decades later, with diesel cars taking 23.5% of the new car market in the UK in 2002, and a ...

I can almost hear the impatient rustle of Top Gear pages as I sit down to write this First Steer of the new &#163:11,390 Mini One D. It's a foregone conclusion, right? Hardly worth reading? Mini is ...

Conceived in the mid-fifties in the midst of Suez Crisis fuel shortages, the Mini was the British Motor Company’s answer to demand for an affordable small car. So, over half-a-century later, how does ...

I bought a 2013 MINI One convertible a year ago, and the gearbox has always been notchy. The last couple of months I have had trouble getting it into first gear, and the gears are getting stiffer all ...