MINI

These are the cheapest electric cars available now that won’t break the bank, though they’re generally still more expensive than comparable gasoline vehicles.

We’ll have full details on the 2025 Mini Countryman S All4 closer to the start of production, which begins in March 2024.

An increasing number of vehicles with sticker prices of $40,000 or less, some much less, offer heated mirrors.

Wheel warming has gone mainstream, with the feature standard or optional not just on luxury vehicles, but on an increasing number of models with sticker prices of $40,000 or less.

Though the brand remains committed to an all-electric lineup by 2030, a gas-engine John Cooper Works Countryman remains in the lineup for 2025.

Mini will announce pricing and an on-sale date for the 2025 Countryman SE All4 EV at a later date.

Beginning in early 2025, drivers of existing BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce electric vehicles will be able to use Tesla’s charging stations.

A generously equipped 2023 Mini Countryman seems overpriced for a subcompact SUV, but a closer examination of its upscale trim and features — along with its athletic character — makes its steep pricing more understandable.

In an investigation of potentially defective airbag inflators that dates to 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is pushing for the recall of 52 million inflators manufactured between the year 2000 and January 2018.

Mini is taking the urban-runabout philosophy to its logical conclusion with the reveal of the electrified next-generation Cooper Hardtop and Countryman.