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MINI is both the name of a subsidiary of BMW, and a car produced by that subsidiary since 2001. The car is marketed as a "retro" redesign of the original Mini, which was manufactured by British Motor Corporation and its successors, assigns, from 1959 to 2000. To distinguish it from its predecessor (the 'classic Mini'), the name for the new car is MINI (written in capital letters). It is often called "The BMW Mini," "New Mini" or simply "Mini" . MINI is manufactured in Cowley, Oxford, United Kingdom, which has been historically Morris car plant.

In some markets like Australia and the United States, only the MINI Cooper and Cooper S are sold because the MINI One's engine was considered to deliver enough power to run an air conditioner - a necessary feature in those climates. However, the only difference between the conductors of "One" and model "Cooper" is a software change in the engine control unit which adjusts for fuel economy on the MINI one one compromise between power and economy in the Cooper. Almost fifty percent of all MINI sold in Australia and about seventy percent of those sold in the United States is the top model in the line of Cooper S.

MINI One, Cooper and Cooper S use a Brazilian Tritec engine constructed while the MINI One / D uses the Toyota diesel engine built. In August 2006, BMW announced that engines would in future be built in Britain, so the car basically rebuilt the British (as well as the final composition of Cowley, the body pressings are made close to Swindon).

While modern engineering the Mini to use any of the original Mini, which captures the spirit of a lot of vintage cars. Like the original, it uses a transversely mounted four-cylinder engine driving the front wheels. All four wheels pushed in the corners of the body, which is a "two-box 'or' drawing hot hatch '. Design your own car, as the New Volkswagen Beetle, a retro design is consciously drawing the original Mini, with color contrasting colors of the roof, bonnet stripes optional rally lights and with optional black trim around the wheel arches and rocker panels to simulate a range of wheel flares found in traditional Mini.