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Share BMW of North America CEO Bernhard Kuhnt will return to Munich to lead the BMW Group’s domestic market in Germany after four and a half years at the helm of BMW Group Region Americas. The company named current Mini Series Executive Sebastian Mackensen to suceed Kudnt. Starting Sept.1, Mackensen will manage all sales, marketing and distribution activities for the BMW Group from Canada to Argentina as well as serve as president and CEO, according to a news release. Mackensen previously man...

HIMLEY Hall is expected to be awash with Mini fans his June when it hosts screenings of The Italian Job as part of a summer drive-in movie festival.

Share More than ten million Minis have been built and sold worldwide since 1959 — and almost as many of the new ones have been built in the 20 years under BMW (5.13 million) as in the previous 40 years of the original (5.38 million). Yet the timing of the original Minis launch could not have been better, arriving as a classless and affordable small car loved by celebrities, royalty and ordinary folk alike, who took it to their hearts just in time for the Swinging Sixties.  The Oxford factory...