Mini Officially Stops Clubman Production After 17 Years Ofrakit

Mini Clubman S Final Edition. (Doc. BMW Group)

JAKARTA - Mini, an automotive brand from England, has officially stopped producing the Clubman model after 17 years of existence. This is done to provide assembly space for the inaugural series of electric vehicles, Aceman.

The plant that assembles Clubman, namely Oxford, Crowley, England, will be converted to 100 percent electric cars by 2030, following an investment of 600 million by parent company BMW Group and the British government.

Reporting from Autocar, Tuesday, February 6, the investment will be used to fund the expansion of the needs of the body repair shop, the construction of areas for battery installation, and the latest logistics facilities in Oxford and Swindon.

It was also stated that the factory not only assembled Aceman, but produced the latest three-door, five-door, and convertible versions of Cooper.

In fact, the Mini estate car emerged to the automotive industry in 1960 under the name Traveler, before finally being updated to Clubman and renamed 1000HL until it was stopped in 1970.

Long story short, Clubman was born again in 2007 and earned its newest generation in 2015. Just like any other model, the car adopted a typical Mini circular headlight with a more conventional rear design.

Then, this model gets a high performance version, John Cooper Works, with peak power reaching 300 dk, which offers exciting skills in terms of driving.

During that period, the crossover has offered a variety of driving machines, covering 1.4 liters of gasoline and 2.0 liters of gasoline, coupled with six automatic speed-up manual transmissions and gyrboks. Then, seven and eight acceleration transmissions are also offered with dual-clutches.

Turning off existing model production to provide space for electric vehicles was also carried out by Ford in Europe, by stopping the Fiesta assembly at the end of 2023 to make room for the Explorer EV.