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  Oxford, UK. 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.   Over the past two decades MINI has built over 5 million cars in the UK. Plant Oxford currently builds the MINI 3-Door Hatch, MINI 5-Door Hatch, MINI Clubman and the MINI Electric, all on the same production line. BMW Group Chairman of the Board of Management Oliver Zipse, who wa...

MINI Celebrates 20 years since modern MINI entered production Home » MINI » MINI Celebrates 20 years since modern MINI entered production It may seem early but 20 years already passed since the modern-day take on the MINI entered production. After BMW took over the British brand at the end of the 1990s, after some serious work was put into the underpinnings of the modern-day MINI, the first ever revamped model came out in 2001, with a completely new look and feel. It was both a reason to rejoice and to be sad, as the original Mini was finally being put to rest, after some 42 years in produ...

2019 marked the Mini's 60th anniversary. Watch the original meet the modern successor. To some people the “new” Mini will never be a replacement for the original, but here’s the thing: it’s not that “new” anymore. In fact the BMW Mini is celebrating its 20th birthday this month! That’s right, while the original celebrated its 60th back in 2019, the modern Mini is 20 (that’s the benchmark to be considered a classic car by a lot of insurance companies, by the way), with the BMW Group’s UK manufacturing plants in Oxford and Swindon celebrating two decades of building Minis, wi...