Mini Plant Oxford Tour

Explore the Oxford Mini plant, witnessing the journey from body shell to personalised Mini.

Experience the most exciting elements of car production in around 100 min: from the so-called ‘Body-in-white’, the bodyshell, to the finished, personalised MINI. You will visit the state of the art plant and see how thousands of parts come together to produce up to 1,000 MINIs per day. And we take a look into the future: what will the mobility of tomorrow look like? Experience the plant up close.

Please note before the plant

  • Children under the age of 14 are not allowed to enter the plant premises.
  • Wearing closed shoes is required for the tour. It's advisable to wear long-sleeved garments for the tour due to sparks.
  • Tours are not suitable for pregnant people or persons with an electronic medical implant (e.g. pacemakers, insulin pumps, etc.).
  • Please be aware that this is a walking tour and requires a level of mobility to fulfill the distance covered around the plant.
  • For a full tour experience visitors will receive audio guides with headphones. Wearing the headphones is mandatory. If you are unable to wear headphones for health reasons, please contact the booking centre before visiting the plant.
  • Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the tour. The visitor centre opens for you 30 minutes before the tour begins.
  • While waiting, you can join the museum tour and photograph their historical exhibits.

Accessibility information for people with disabilities:

  • Please contact us in advance if you have any health or mobility impairments.
  • The tour is wheelchair accessible, but it is necessary that the person in the wheelchair can at least get on the bus and walk a few steps independently. Upon arrival of the bus, the centre will provide a foldable wheelchair for the duration of the tour, you can leave your own wheelchair at the Visitor Centre. No electric wheelchair may be brought along. Whether your own wheelchair can be taken along, can only be checked on site (subject to availability, must be able to be lifted into the bus). An accompanying person will have to push the wheelchair during the tour; carers have free entry.
  • The smallest door/path is 0.82m wide.
  • Assistive listening technology can be provided for individuals with reduced ranges of hearing (Inductive Neck Loops)