Everything that’s old is new again. Forty-one years after its auspicious debut, the Mini has finally been updated, and new parent company BMW has big plans for the racy little econobox.

When it goes on sale in the U.S. in March 2002 as the Mini-Cooper, BMW will have gone through an arduous internal audit that will determine which seventy or so of its dealers will get to sell the 25,000 units that will be imported here. The car will not be marketed under the BMW label, so the dealers will be creating separate showrooms for the little bomber. Given the parent company’s strength in large urban markets on both coasts, points in between may not see the Mini for awhile.
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Launched in the United States in early summer, the curious PT Cruiser is now imported into France with a goal from Chrysler to achieve 1500 sales by the end of the year.

Failing to win a time of great success, apart from minispace style Neo-retro leaves no one indifferent. Based on the new Dodge Neon, engineers have built the brand of the carrier PT Cruiser as that of a sedan 2 volumes.
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