MINI will make an entry-level model that's smaller, cheaper and more efficient than any since BMW took over the brand.

The new city car concept will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2011. It will be based on the current MINI hatchback, but shortened and possibly with only two seats.

Little is known about the concept at present, though MINI sources have confirmed its existence. An intelligent three-seat layout like that of Gordon Murray's T.25 city car could get the go-ahea...

You may remember that MINI sent out a cheeky invite to Porsche, challenging the sports car maker to a race to establish who has the quicker car (read the original story here). Well Porsche politely declined, but MINI went ahead and organised a race anyway on its own terms.

Before Porsche turned down the invite for a second time, MINI released another video taunting the company's president, Detlev von Platen, and then flew a private airplane over Porsche's US headquarters towing a bann...

Porsche has snubbed MINI's challenge of a race between a 911 and a Cooper S.

MINI's USA boss, Jim McDowell, sensationally challenged his Porsche counterpart Detlev Von Platen to a Cooper S versus 911 race at the Road Atlanta track in Georgia, US.

MINI even booked the venue for a showdown on July 21 and paid for a full-page advert to publicise the event in the New York Times.

But in an open letter by von Platen, Porsche has rejected the idea of the race, claiming that it: 'doesn't race ...