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Mini crossover to carry base price of $22,350

Mini's new Countryman crossover will start at $22,350, only $550 more than the three-door Clubman wagon. A well-equipped Countryman in a Cooper S trim with optional all-wheel drive will cost just under $30,000, Jim McDowell, head of Mini USA, said Wednesday during the media launch for the vehicle. The prices include destination charges, Mini said.

Show Review: RTT Salzburg Conference

This is the seventh annual conference that RTT has run, and the second year it has chosen to do so in Salzburg at the Salzburg Residence in the heart of this elegant historical city. RTT is now an established supplier of visualisation software solutions and services to various industries, principal amongst which is the automotive design industry. The conference was orientated around showing related digital visualisation case studies from the broad portfolio of RTT associates and clients including Porsche, BMW, EA Games and Audi.

Jag Land Rover factory closure ‘already decided'

Jaguar Land Rover management has already decided which UK factory to close – and the decision will be announced this autumn in 2010. The car making group, which manufactures around 250,000 cars a year, operates out of three UK sites: Castle Bromwich and Solihull near Birmingham, and Halewood near Liverpool. Those sorts of volumes are more normally associated with a single factory or, at a push, two.