Create your very own BMC Calendar

The unique BMC Calendar is now available in Shop BMC. Create your very own top quality A3 British Mini Club Calendar with over 50 images top choose from. The quick, easy, cost-effective way to create your very own customised, rolling calendar and choose your own start month. Add your own reminders and more. This really is superb quality and the end result is a Full Size A3 (297mm x 420mm) and is a Quality Printed Product. Only available from the British Mini Club and unique to us. Create your very own today at www.britishminiclub.co.uk/shop

Aerial toppers discount

Our good friends at aerialtoppers.com have now offered British Mini Club members a 10% discount on any of ther products. Amongst other items they have a Classic Mini shaped topper in various colours which would look fantastic on any Mini. Check out the products and claim your 10% discount by entering the word: mini into the discount voucher box on there website at :

www.aerialtoppers.com

Italian road trip is just the job for MINI’s charity partner

MINI UK’s charity partner KidsOut is set to hit the jackpot this year. The Italian Job, a charitable pan-European rally now in its 19th successful year, has committed to making KidsOut the primary beneficiary of its fundraising efforts from 2008 onwards.

Given that The Italian Job has raised in excess of £2 million for children’s charities throughout the UK and Europe since 1990, KidsOut is all set for a major boost in its work with disadvantaged children.

The rally will feature participating teams driving a range of privately owned classic Mini cars as well as a huge number of new MINIs. The rally route begins in Imola, Italy on 24 October 2008 where wine will be collected rather than the gold that featured in the original ’Job. Continuing apace through Bologna, Turin and Venice, ‘Jobbers’ will then progress to the Adria raceway circuit and on to Monza. All will have the opportunity to drive laps on the Lingotto Rooftop track, which appeared in the 1969 film of the same name.

Capacity for the road trip will be limited to approximately 100 cars. Potential participants are able to enter if they can commit to raising a minimum of £1,500. Further details can be found at www.italianjob.com

David Baker, KidsOut Chief Executive said: “The Italian Job event has a great history of supporting children’s charities and I am really pleased that it is now behind KidsOut. A convoy of MINIs sounds like huge fun and that is what we are all about. I’m confident this partnership will go from strength to strength and numerous children in the UK will experience the benefits.”

British Mini Days - Himley Hall and Catton Hall

Calling all Traders, Autojumblers and Mini Clubs. British Mini Days are some of the most popular events in the Mini calendar in the UK so make sure you attend these events to increase the profile of your company and club or just to sell many items. Our shows in 2007 were attended by over 15,000 people all of these are Classic Mini and New MINI enthusiasts.For 2008 we have moved our final event to Catton Hall near Burton Upon Trent. This is promising to be a superb event, is a massive site and we are sure over the years it will become as big an event as Himley Hall if not bigger.Catton Hall also hosts our Premiership Concours Finals Make sure you do not miss out on British Mini Days by booking your space now. We have the most competitve prices of any show inlcuding indoor shows. Book your space today by visiting our website and downloading the booking forms. Make sure you send them into us to reserve your space. Other details are available on the website:

www.britishminiclub.co.uk or download your forms here.. We look forward to seeing you at our British Mini Days

British Mini Day - Himley Hall 2008

This years British Mini Day at Himley takes place on the 11th May - Himley Hall is near Dudley in the West Midlands. The complete Mini enthusiasts event. This very popular event is open to owners of both classic Mini and new MINI. Last years event attracted well over 6000 visitors. Situated in the grounds of a stately home & park, & very easy to find - Just off the A449 between Kidderminster & Wolverhampton. So come along and enjoy a wonderfull day with the British Mini Club in the country. For Full details please follow the link below :

British Mini Day Himley Hall 2008

MINI UK hits another record

MINI UK has achieved a record sales month; the highest since MINI went on sale in July 2001. 150 UK dealers sold 8,764 models in September 2007*. Year-to-date figures are running higher than the previous record year of 2005, at 36,969 models, making the outlook for a new record sales year certainly look more likely than snow on Christmas day. As announced at Frankfurt motorshow last month, global sales figures are heading for the 220,000 mark in 2007.
The record sales show the continuing success of the MINI brand and the public appreciation of the second-generation MINI hatch and MINI Convertible models. Soon to join the line-up is the new MINI Clubman: on sale from 10 November.

One of the strengths of the MINI hatch (and Clubman) models is the brand new engines which are even more fuel efficient and boast lower C02 emissions. From August of this year, those figures became even more impressive with the addition of a number of engine revisions including Brake Energy Regeneration, Auto Start-Stop Function and Switch Point Display.

This technology has contributed to MINI being the ‘Most Improved Manufacturer’ in the table comparing sales and C02 performance, according to data from cleangreencars.co.uk. Since 2006, MINI has reduced C02 output per car by approximately 14 per cent. The next nearest manufacturer has improved by 8.9 per cent.

MINI’s leading emission and fuel consumption improvements are featured in the forthcoming SMMT report ‘The Evolution of the Car’, due to be published next week on 9 October. For example, from the first generation MINI Cooper in 2001 to the current model today, MINI has cut C02 emissions by over a fifth.

MINI Cooper Convertible stars in "The Heartbreak Kid"

A MINI Cooper Convertible will kick-off the Fall movie season as the featured automobile in one of this season's most anticipated comedies, "The Heartbreak Kid." The new DreamWorks Pictures film from Bobby and Peter Farrelly opens nationwide October 5th with an all star cast that includes: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, and Malin Akerman. A comedy about finding the right girl

Ben Stiller is the Heartbreak Kid and is looking for the right girl to marry. Falls in love and marries at top speed. The newly weds head down to Mexico in there Hyper Blue MINI Cooper Convertible. Even on the honeymoon the marriage turns from a dream to nightmare. See more at www.heatbreakkidmovie.com

MINI SUV on the way ?

According to Auto Express the guys at MINI are working on a SUV to enhance the MINI range. This is part of many new products to come for MINI range.

A MINI SUV would certainly open up new markets, but is it big enough to have an SUV feel? could be a problem with size but we are sure the MINI team will give a MINI SUV a superb image like they have with the MINI Clubman.

Check out the Auto Express article and mock up

Good Clean Fun

“Good Clean Fun” – MINI Cooper D wins Autocar magazine’s 2007 Green Grand Prix

MINI has taken a green P1 in the Autocar 2007 Green Grand Prix with its combination of great economy, low carbon dioxide emissions and renowned fun-factor.

Tested against some of the UK’s most environmentally friendly cars, MINI Cooper D triumphed in both absolute fuel consumption (which is directly related to CO2 emissions), and in how close its consumption figures got to the manufacturer’s stated economy figures. So, with MINI, it does what it says on the tin and you can have your cake and eat it. The only cliché it doesn’t fulfil is that going green means driving dull.

“A highly entertaining econo-car,” and “…an enjoyable way to save.” Autocar concluded that owning a MINI Cooper D is the best way to “save and smile”.

Technologies introduced in August 2007 have now pitched the new MINI Cooper D, and all other MINI derivatives including the new MINI Clubman, firmly into hybrid car-levels of economy and emissions. Brake Energy Regeneration, an instantly responsive Stop-Start system, and an in-car gear shift indicator push the car towards a combined 72 miles per gallon target. Autocar achieved 59 mpg during its ‘real-world’ driving test in the Green Grand Prix and this winning result was “impressive (and) achieved with a car barely run-in.”

On a personal note I think this is fantastic news for the MINI and it should increase sales to a new high especially with the new Clubman out in November. Saving the planet and having fun to .. brilliant

MINI Clubman and MINI stand at Frankfurt 2007

Check out a quick video of the MINI Clubman and the MINI stand at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2007. MINI built a very disco like stand to attract attention and we are sure it worked well. It was good to see the MINI Clubman on it's first proper Motor Show outing along with other models of the 2007 MINI.