I thought that my 2010 Coupe said that the engine was Brazilian made, but according to Wikipedia engine manufacturing has been in England since 2008. But elsewhere on these forums I see them being constructed in France or Germany. What's the real answer?

 

The monroney sticker for my 2008 MCS says the engine is made in France. I believe they are made by Peugeot.

 

PSA design, in conjunction with BMW. Assembled at the Hams Hall plant outside Birmingham England, and delivered to the Cowley plant for final assembly. FWIW, sub assemblies of the MINI and pressings (such as doors) are manufactured in Swindon England, which is to the west of Oxford.

The 1.6L Turbo of the MINI is also find in slight variance inside the Citroen DS3 and Peugeot 207S.

 

My 2010 window sticker also says the country of origin for the engine is France.

 

Bingo

 

Parts

 

Not only those two, almost every current Peugeot or Citroen is available with the 1.6 turbo, PSA really makes the most of these engines while BMW only uses them on Mini models.

 

The JCW engine is from Germany as stated on my 2009 JCW's window sticker.

 

Here's a pic of the Swindon panels works:



An interesting side note - back in the old days, when MG sports cars were still being built at Abingdon, all of the car bodies were built at the Swindon works (then operated by Pressed Steel) and trucked to Abingdon for final assembly. So the bodies of my MG and MINI both came from Swindon.

Spridget

 

I don't know if you mean where all of the parts are originally cast, designed, assemble or what but it is generally known that the 1st Gen MINIs had Chrysler engines otherwise known as "Neon Motors" which I've seen were built in Brazil. I don't know if that was just the block and the head/electrical/injection system was from somewhere else. It is also generally known that the 2nd Gen is a Peugot(France) motor and again, I don't know where each individual component is made and/or assembled. I bet is would most difficult to pin down where all of the engines are "made" at any one time due to outsourcing.

 

Nice, didn't know that. I knew there were some others, but didn't know specific models.

And I'm not 100% today, but back in the day when I lived in England (AF 1987-1992), Peugeots and Citroens were pretty damn good and reliable cars...despite the beating these names take in the US now. These two produce some pretty damn nice cars for the European market...

 

My 2009 Mini cooper s says Engine- France, Transmission - Japan
Major source of foreign parts content
United Kingdom - 30%
France - 25%
Final assembly - oxford, United Kingdom

 

The R53 engines were made in Brazil while the R56 engines are made in France, England and Germany if i'm not mistaken.

 

Weird...

My window sticker says:

Country of origin
Engine: Germany
Transmission: Germany


Wonder if there is any link to country of origin and those people who had engine issues...i just hope they weren't the germany ones.

 

I don't know about country-of-origin differences on the engines (someone earlier said the JCW engine comes from Germany - maybe that's true?) but the difference in transmission origins is easy to explain: the (Getrag) manual comes from Germany; the (Aisin = Toyota) automatic comes from Japan. I heard something about the Countryman getting some automatic transmissions from Belgium due to the tsunami in Japan interrupting production there, but I haven't actually seen a Countryman window sticker with Belgium on it.

 

Ok...here you go from MINI...fact or fiction? (Click on engine to the left)

http://www.mini-production-triangle....en/production/

 

I'm thinking they must install the alternator at Hams Hall, or something similar, and that allows them to say the engine was made there. In actuality, I suspect all major assembly of the engines takes place in a Peugeot plant in France, thus, France being listed as the country of origin of the engine on the window sticker.

I e-mailed MINI USA asking about this, but got a form non-answer. I'm still trying to find out where the engines are built, not that it matters. Mine works fine, but I'm curious.

 

Same here.

 

This took a while to Google and find. I thought to put it here for anyone who searches for this in the future. I started searching based on 10Zero's post about PSA (Peugeot Societe Anonyme for anyone who wonders).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_engine#1.6

Also, this is a very interesting article on the engine(s) used in MINIs:

http://www.motoringfile.com/2013/11/...uld-have-been/

Kind of sad to realize but the engine choices for MINIs were, are, and will be nothing more than cost effective decisions by BMW.

 

i find it interesting that someone here posted that the r53's had "neon" motors. I have a neon as well as my R56 but im glad im not the only one that noticed that the R53 and neon motors are the same.

 

Hi from across the pond.
From UK forums the 1st Gen engines were called Tritec; a Chrysler/BMW last minute design from Brazil since BMW had no small fwd unit of their own.
2nd Gens (petrol) are Citroen/Peugeot/PSA with a BMW top end. Lighter and more contemporary...Called the Prince engine I think.
I wonder if the 'Neon' you describe might come from the Chrysler Neon model marketed in UK with the same engine?
Anyway folks, Google 'Tritech' and 'Prince' for a bit more info.

 

my 02/2012 build all4 has a french built N18 engine! FML!
tranny from germany
assembled in austria

 

Yes i do believe those are the same...mine is badged dodge...which is chrysler. I wonder if i would be the first to throw the R53 engine into my neon? That could be interesting

 

[QUOTE=PaddyB;3932114]This took a while to Google and find. I thought to put it here for anyone who searches for this in the future. I started searching based on 10Zero's post about PSA (Peugeot Societe Anonyme for anyone who wonders).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_engine#1.6

Also, this is a very interesting article on the engine(s) used in MINIs:

http://www.motoringfile.com/2013/11/...uld-have-been/

Kind of sad to realize but the engine choices for MINIs were, are, and will be nothing more than cost effective decisions by BMW.[/QUOTE]


It is sad but we knew this back in 2002. The R-53 had the smallest profit margin of ANY BMW product ever made. It was inevitable that they would slowly try to increase their profit during each new gen. Its only business .