The world still wants manuals, Mini maintains, so it’s upping its manual model count to nine, starting in March. “Fun to drive” was the top characteristic respondents most associated with a manual ...

Want a new Mini with a manual transmission? Patience will be a virtue for you, then. The double whammy of the semiconductor crunch and the war in Ukraine means that supply chains are thoroughly ...

Of all the automakers we’ve talked with so far, Mini seems to sell the largest percentage of its cars with a manual transmission. A representative from the company shared numbers with us that show 11% ...

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Between all the auto manufacturers moving to electric platforms — MINI and parent company BMW included — and the decades-long domination of automatic transmissions in the U.S. market, it can often ...

In a move set to prevent the death of manual transmissions in the United States, the North American division of MINI has just launched a new ad campaign that addresses the hardtop, Clubman, ...

Mini is bringing back the manual. The compact carmaker was forced to temporarily suspend production of cars with stick-shift transmissions this spring due to supply chain constraints, but is ...

After graduating with an MBA, Jared pursued his love of cars by becoming an automotive journalist. An internship with CarBuzz grew into his current position as Editor At Large. Jared now flies around ...

Stick shift is back in the MINI cars with November 2022 production vehicles for the U.S. market. The German-owned brand wants to lure in more customers for the emblematic automobile. Since the ...

While automatic transmissions are more efficient than ever before -- and many now beat manual transmissions on gas mileage -- fans of stick-shift gearboxes are quick to point out that guiding your car ...

A major problem for the survival of the manual transmission is the dwindling number of people who know how to drive stick. Mini is trying to do something about that. The automaker is launching a ...