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Mini does conventional.
If you believe the latest Mini Hardtop to be neither specifically mini nor more attractive than its predecessor, we wouldn’t argue either point. The most current 3-door Hardtop’s generous size boost does make for a roomier interior, but the vehicle also appears like a 5-4ths—or larger—scale Mini. Now Mini is expanding the brand (how numerous occasions will we write those words?) with this volume-chasing 5-door, which is a first if you don’t count the Countryman crossover. Sadly, the 5r does not fix the Hardtop’s visual eccentricities, but it does provide another bump in cabin space.
Mild Size Bump, Bumpy Look
There’s no question that the 5-Door, as Mini is officially calling it, will attract people to the brand who shun its much less practical or less-mini models. But does practicality need to have to look like this? The 6-door (counting the rear barn doors) Mini Clubman notion that wowed us at this year’s Geneva auto show had us salivating for this automobile. The show house had it all: Great appears, a sultry roofline, and upscale detailing inside and out.
The production 5-door, on the other hand, is no more than a mildly stretched Mini with an additional pair of doors wedged in. All round length has been taffy-pulled by roughly 6 inches, even though the wheelbase expands by just half that it is no wonder the addition of rear doors looks awkward. The handsome Clubman idea, by contrast, stretched a whopping 15 or so inches longer than a Hardtop, affording it far greater proportions.
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About half—1.5 inches—of the 5-door’s extra wheelbase has been translated into rear-seat legroom, and if they’re stubby, at least the rear doors will make it simpler to access the back seat. The new Mini’s cargo hold will swallow 9.2 cubic feet of stuff behind the back seats, .5 a lot more than before.
Aside from rear passengers getting door pulls to play with and C-pillars in their peripheral vision, people in a 5-door will occupy an nearly identical interior. The 5-door hatch can carry 5 individuals, though, whereas the Hardtop accommodates only 4. But provided that the 2 automobiles share an identical 68-inch width, the fifth aboard ought to most likely be named Jack or Jim.
Powertrains by BMW
The 5-door’s hood will hide the identical engines as in the Hardtop. That means base Cooper models get a turbocharged and direct-injected 1.5-liter 3-cylinder gas engine hooked to either a 6-speed manual or 6-speed automatic. Output stands at a respectable 134 horsepower and 162 lb-ft of torque. The hotter option is the Cooper S, which mates the same 6-speed gearboxes to a 2.-liter turbo 4 creating 189 horsepower and 207 lb-ft of torque. (An overboost function temporarily bumps the engines’ torque figures to 170 and 221 lb-ft.) Both models are front-wheel drive.
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The new hatchback’s reasonably mild stretch should iron out the ride a bit and likely will not prove detrimental to the car’s chuckability. The larger Mini hatch utilizes the exact same strut front and multilink rear suspension setup, and it shares the choice of adaptive dampers that let the driver to tailor the ride and handling.
The Mini 5-door will be offered with a host of driver-help technologies, such as a head-up show, road-sign detection for speed-limit placards, camera-primarily based adaptive cruise handle, collision and pedestrian-effect warnings, and even an automatic braking function. This sort of gear must, like the pair of rear doors, support expand the Mini’s appeal.
This new vehicle fills dealers’ need for a 5-door Mini that’s less costly and smaller than the Countryman, and they must expect a lot more showroom traffic. But we hope the quirky Clubman concept has a future, barn doors and all, simply because this 5-door—and a prospective complete-blown SUV—indicates that Mini is pondering a lot more conventionally than ever.
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