Fourth double victory in a row from a large public vote: 106,000 readers of the specialized magazine “Auto, Motor und Sport” select MINI for the favourite of its class.

MINI has been voted the readers choice in the technical periodical “Auto, Motor und Sport”, and what’s more impressive, in 2004 the MINI, world-wide, has achieved a good dozen of class victories in competitions before public and jury or editorial votes.

The MINI gained 43.8% of the readers votes of “Auto, Motor und Sport” for best in class, which is more than twice as many as the runner up which attracted 21.3% of voters). The MINI also won the best small import vehicle class, with an impressive 63.3% of the votes.

The MINI also achieved record sales world wide again in 2004, this beats the all time yearly record for Mini (classic) and MINI sales, with 187,357 vehicles sold worldwide in over 70 countries (up 4.5% on 2003 sales). Sales are expected to be even higher in 2005, helped in part by the new Convertible range, launched midway through 2004 (which still achieved 10% of total sales), and the option of an Automatic 6 speed transmission on the MINI Cooper S and Cooper S Convertible.