Did Bmw Make Mini Cooper. Few cars have had an evolution as strange and fascinating as the mini cooper. The mini john cooper works challenge is a purpose built race car based on the mini hatch and manufactured in the bmw motorsport factory located in munich.
Before bmw s acquisition the rover group owned mini. In the next few sections we ll examine the two design generations of the mini cooper from 2002 to 2007. Mini has been owned by bmw group since 2000 but it started out life as a british brand.
In 2009 a john cooper works world championship 50 special edition was unveiled in 2009 mini united festival in silverstone.
A more powerful engine bigger brakes and a few tuning tweaks later the classic mini cooper 997 was introduced. The mk i mini one cooper and cooper s used some version of the brazilian built tritec engine co developed by the us based chrysler and bmw. In the next few sections we ll examine the two design generations of the mini cooper from 2002 to 2007. Bmw owns mini cooper and bmw s owned mini cooper for some time now.
