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A research company in the United Kingdom has polled the British public to produce a list of the Top 40 Movie Cars of All-time. Here's the list, along with images, movie posters of the movies, plus links to all the logical places where you can get more information.​

Flexible living spaces are growing more attractive as urban developers grapple with booming populations and ever-limited space. Automaker Mini is turning its eye for compact design to this emerging architectural trend with a series of micro apartments that maximize lifestyle options.

As it moves closer to a fully electric car, Mini is having some fun with electricity. It's added battery power to a classic Cooper for NYIAS 2018, where it's also showing a different electrified model. The Mini Countryman Panamericana will embark on a journey from Texas to the tip of South America.

Mini has put together a cute concept for the New York International Auto Show: the classic Mini Electric, a restored classic Cooper running on battery power to demonstrate that electrics can look like anything, from futuristic spaceships to classic shapes. You'd struggle to pick it in a line-up.

Mini has unveiled its refreshed range of 2-door, cabriolet and 5-door models for 2018. Changes include updated headlamps and tail lamps, more customization options, wireless phone charging facilities, and stop/start technology.​

Mini has announced MINI Yours Customised, which uses 3D-printing and laser engraving facilities in Germany to allow a range of interior and exterior trim pieces featuring your own design to be custom-made.

This year, we saw the redesign of one of the world's 4x4 icons, the spread of electric powertrain tech to the trail, all-new racing machines, and a few toys that could lure even the most stubborn homebody into the backcountry. Here we look back at our favorite fun, capable off-roaders of 2017.

BMW is busy electricking all kinds of things. The latest is the MINI Countryman hybrid, the first of the British brand’s line to get a power cord and go mainstream. Unlike MINI EV experiments of the past, the Countryman PHEV retains all of the good qualities of the (wait for it) biggest MINI.

For the first time, Mini Living will be going beyond concepts with an actual building project in Shanghai. The co-living building will see existing buildings converted into a series of tiny apartments, co-working spaces and communal facilities, including, rooftop farming and car-sharing.

Once the Dakar force to beat, Mini has had to sit by and watch Peugeot's beastly 2WD overshadow it the past two years. Now it's experimenting with a rugged 2WD buggy of its own, preparing to run both 2WD and 4WD cars at next year's Dakar. Are Peugeot's days at the top numbered?

Clemson University students have put their burgeoning know-how to use imagining what the Mini of 2025 might look like. The two-door features a scalable powertrain, open interior, appearance-shifting digital paint and a few other innovations that may one day show up on Minis and cars of all sizes.

Mini's not-always-so-mini production line-up is an acquired taste, but its concepts often open the mind to new possibilities in small (or not so small) commuting. In Frankfurt, the mind will be entertaining the idea of an aggressive Cooper that epitomizes "driving fun in its purest form."