Mini

For somewhat of a niche brand, Mini had a pretty impressive year in 2020. Sales of the six-door Clubman were up over 24 per cent and many other models were limited purely by supply. The brand recently saw the arrival of the hardcore JCW GP model as well as a refreshed Countryman SUV. But, while a number of product updates are expected from Mini in 2021 (Cooper S facelift for one...), the brand's local arm remains tight-lipped about exactly which models will be launched in the new year.

When we’re not creating it ourselves, the CarAdvice team spends a lot of time finding and consuming motoring content from all over the world. Here’s a handful of the photos, articles, videos or social media posts that most caught our eye last week. Some of them are brand new, others have been online for a while. Enjoy them – just not too much, okay? We knew Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson was big, we just didn't know he was 'too large for a Porsche Taycan' big.

UPDATE, November 17: The Mini Electric John Cooper Works has been teased in a video about the BMW iNext (or, by its production name, iX). Bringing cameras into BMW's secretive design studio, images of the new Mini Electric JCW were spotted on a computer and desktop, before been hurriedly covered up in what was clearly a staged scene.

BMW has announced a new, bolder direction for the company, with policies designed to reduce environmental impacts from the manufacturing of new cars. At the forefront of the new climate-change strategy is a range of electric models, confirming for the first time a fully-electric 5 Series and X1 SUV are in development.