Cooper [Spy Shots] Leaked! Next Gen MINI Cooper

[SCOTT27]

Although I do not perceive well in those spy pics, that must mean that the "normal" that you published in yellow has to grow a little, surely closer to a Golf?

Well if you compare the first MINI to F56 you can see the growth.
This MINI E looks closer to the first MINI in stance and stature.

The F56 began that transition from A segment to B segment-straddling C-Segment where it has penetrated C-segment territory. Given MINIs destiny to go fully electric. I can understand the need to not fully develop an all new one due to the short shelf life it would have.

 

[SCOTT27]

I thought it was?



That's a completely different car. Looks the same as the current to me (and far less good looking).

It looks like to receive a Framed outline grille like the MINI E and current MINI.

I remember in early design proposals they gave the MINI a full length frameless grille like an Aston Martin.
The Cooper was ribbed and the S was mesh honeycomb. It was like today’s car without the central crash impact section that houses the plate. It highlighted its “Britishness” so to speak. The F56 designed to bring about some extra sophistication ended up being cartoony in my opinion. That overhang at the front being my principle bug-bear on the F56.

However I do like the facelift. As they seem to have pumped up the bonnet so it looks less flat than before. The current MINI E is a lot of fun and fantastic to drive and easy to own. Bringing all this to an entry model would be an interesting choice to make at least in the MINITRIX.

 

[klier]

The F56 designed to bring about some extra sophistication ended up being cartoony in my opinion. That overhang at the front being my principle bug-bear on the F56.

They made a platform with the then upcoming FWD 1er in mind, and it works for neither. Flawed principles bring flawed cars.

This new ICE Mini Cooper is just an update of the F56, because Mini is going EV only in a few years and they're not developing an all new platform for an ICE car anymore.
And Honestly I don't find the Mini E much fun at all. It is heavy and understeers a lot.

 

[SKY]

The leaked car looks far better than the turds MINI has been producing for a lot of years now.

It ticks all the boxes to me.

 

[SCOTT27]

The smaller mini-MINI in an accurate rendering.

 

[dalab]

The smaller mini-MINI in an accurate rendering.

Accurate?, it doesn't look much or almost nothing like the Rocketman from which I thought it would be mostly inspired, that is, it is very similar to the normal one but smaller, I hope it is not so accurate because it lacks a personality more of its own

 

[SCOTT27]

Accurate?, it doesn't look much or almost nothing like the Rocketman from which I thought it would be mostly inspired, that is, it is very similar to the normal one but smaller, I hope it is not so accurate because it lacks a personality more of its own

The mini-MINI derived from the Rocketman idea is the GW MINI BEV spied on full in their picturesque compound. So yes accurate.

 

[dalab]

The mini-MINI derived from the Rocketman idea is the GW MINI BEV spied on full in their picturesque compound. So yes accurate.

I'm sorry to contradict you, but it's not very accurate, the pics doesn't have any camo and I still base it on the normal Mini.

The obvious widened rear and front fenders are not in the render, for example, so not as accurate

Make a render of this that is 100% visible and I do not rescue the roundness of the front, what is it that differentiates it from the normal Mini?

 

[dalab]

The ICE Cooper S. Notice the differences.

Autocar indicates that MINI confirms that these photos you published do not exist and never existed, the new Mini will only be the one in the leak, do you know anything about that?
It already seemed to me that it was exactly the same as the current one, surely they are from the last LCI presented

"However, they will continue to look very similar. A long-mooted city car that was set to take the Minor name back into production and serve as a rival to the Honda E is now off the table, Mini has confirmed. Ever since Mini revealed the much-loved Rocketman concept back in 2011, it has been speculated that a city car could be introduced to sit beneath the supermini."

Reborn electric Mini Cooper priced from £31,945 in the UK | Autocar

New-look electric Mini gains bold cabin design and two powertrain options – and we've driven it

www.autocar.co.uk

 

[SCOTT27]

That EV MINI is smaller than the F56. I still see those ICE camouflaged MINIs. So there is something significant to why those exist.