Buying Guide : MINI (R50) 2001-2007

Buying Guide : MINI (R50) 2001-2007 . The first pre-production, new-era Mini was seen at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1997, but it wasn’t until 2000 that the production version appeared, making its début at the Paris Motor Show three years later. During that time, BMW had dropped Land Rover, MG and Rover from its portfolio of British marques, selling the former to Ford, and leaving the latter two to fend for themselves under the auspices of a home-grown management consortium known as Phoenix.