Mini
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BMW’s Irish profits fell 75% last year
- Retail & Services
- November 18, 2020, 13:56
Profits at BMW’s Irish operation fell 75 per cent last year, with the drop largely attributed to a fall in sales. Revenues at the premium car brand (...)

The Irish Times guide to new electric cars for 2020 and 2021
- Motors
- July 1, 2020, 07:00
The proposed programme for government states an intention to copper-fasten, with legislation, the proposal to ban sales of all petrol- and diesel-engi(...)

Profits rise at BMW’s Irish operation despite drop in demand
- Retail & Services
- January 22, 2020, 05:40
Premium car giant BMW’s Irish operation saw operating profit rise by 13 per cent to €3.6 million in 2018, despite a 7.7 per cent drop in its new car r(...)

BMW chief warns Johnson to ‘listen to economy’ on Brexit
- Transport & Tourism
- August 1, 2019, 19:29
The chief executive of BMW has urged Boris Johnson to “listen to the economy” on Brexit in a “personal message” to the UK’s new prime minister. Haral(...)

BMW’s new 1 Series can go wheel-to-wheel with the best of its hatchback rivals
- Motors
- July 16, 2019, 23:00
They say necessity is the mother of invention. When BMW’s bean counters decided to forgo the company’s trademark rear wheel-drive format for its smal(...)

‘I’m learning German. It’s not that different to how people speak in Dundalk’
- Work
- July 12, 2019, 05:49
Growing up in Dundalk in the 1990s, the thought of electric cars must have been a million miles away, in a Stanley Kubrick future. For one Louth man, (...)

Minis’s first electric hits Ireland priced from €27,765
- Motors
- July 9, 2019, 13:57
Mini has revealed its first electric model, the Mini Cooper SE, and it will go on sale in Ireland later this year at a price of €27,765 or €309 per mo(...)

BMW's grand plan: A revolution is under way across the auto industry
- Motors
- June 26, 2019, 01:00
Here’s a 10-pointer pub quiz question: what’s the biggest tourist attraction in Bavaria? No, it’s not Munich’s infamous putsch beer hall, or the Neusc(...)

Past and present of an iconic British car – the Mini
- Motors
- May 15, 2019, 06:00
It seems, as you open the door, as if you’re about to take a step back in time. The exterior looks old, albeit well-scrubbed up. Even given the modern(...)

Peugeot named as most dependable car brand in UK by JD Power
- Motors
- May 10, 2019, 11:47
In something of a surprise, given the results of previous surveys, Peugeot has been named by JD Power as the most reliable car brand for 2019. JD Powe(...)