Mini

The most donuts (spins) around a car driving on two wheels in one minute is 10 and was achieved by Han Yue (China) and Zhang Shengjun (Chinese Taipei) driving a MINI 3 Door Hatch and a BMW M4 Coupe in Chongqing, China on 14 November 2014.

145,902 vehicles sold worldwide in August, up 4.5% Year-to-date sales total 1,330,077, rise of 6.7% Munich . The BMW Group saw its most successful August ever with 145,902 vehicles delivered to customers around the world (prev. yr. 139,650 / +4.5%). Sales for the first eight months of the year are also …

Three quarters of a million BMW and MINI retail staff trained since 2004 Munich. The BMW Group Training Academy in Unterschleißheim formally celebrated its tenth anniversary on Wednesday. Dr. Herbert Grebenc, head of Real Estate, Facility Management and Corporate Security at BMW Group, and Joachim Geißler, head of Qualification and …

BMW Group engines secure another double win in the Engine of the Year Award 2014. Run of success continues with awards in two displacement classes: the 3.0-litre straight-six with BMW TwinPower Turbo technology wins its fourth title and the MINI 1.6-litre four-cylinder turbo unit its eighth in the world’s leading …

BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer has declared a $5.5 billion war on rising costs. This is the solution to prevent lower profit margins. To keep the profit margin to an acceptable 8%-10%, BMW needs to save $4 billion to $5.4 billion in costs. The BMW reported a margin in 2013 is …