Overview
- The brand, whose first modern car left Oxford on April 26, 2001, now counts 4,671,664 UK-built cars across four generations.
- Production spans Plant Oxford for assembly and Plant Swindon for body panels, supplying more than 100 markets with about 800 cars a day as a new MINI leaves the line every 78 seconds.
- The sites employ more than 3,000 people across 64 nationalities with 111 apprentices, reflecting both scale and a pipeline for skilled roles.
- Anniversary events include a Drive It Day at the Oxford plant in aid of the NSPCC’s Childline, bringing employees and owners onto site to mark the milestone.
- Recent results frame MINI’s next chapter as over one third of 2025 sales were fully electric while John Cooper Works hit a record 25,630 units, signaling a dual track of electrification and performance.