MINI has been very good at filling niches, even ones we never knew existed until it launched a model. It’s surprising, then, this company took as long to offer a five-door version of the popular hatch. Amazingly, it took until 2014 for the five-door hatch to arrive, some 13 years after the first of...

MINI may have launched numerous versions of its style-driven small car , but it’s the three-door hatch that remains at the core of all it does. Launched in 2014 and revised in 2018, it’s the standard bearer in the supermini class for fun driving, cabin appeal and a spread of options that leaves its...

Do you remember when MINI went through that mad spell? When it launched all of the cars, all at the same time. There was the MINI Coupe, the MINI Roadster and this, the MINI Paceman. It was launched as a sportier version of the MINI Countryman. Hence the ‘pace’ in Paceman. This meant lowered suspension,...