MINI’s previous Concept Frankfurt gave us an insight into the future of the MINI product range – currently comprising of the One, One D, Cooper, Cooper S and Cooper Convertible. You could say the Concept Frankfurt was a modern incarnation of the old school Mini Traveller, a way of BMW MINI telling us that it plans to develop a new station wagon MINI. However due to legal reasons, the new MINI station wagon will not be called the MINI Traveller, but instead a new name has been chosen: the MINI Clubman.
Spyshots have already been circulating the internet, and the MINI Clubman will feature an assymetrical design, with one side having just a driver’s door, but the other side having a passenger door as well as a small suicide door which swings open to facilitate easy entry into the rear seats. Auto Motor und Sport reports that the MINI Clubman will also receive all-wheel drive technology in end 2008.
Two other rumoured MINI projects include an all-wheel drive MINI Cooper is also in the works, as well as something a little more tricky. This tricky little thing will be called the MINI Colorado, and it will be somewhat like the typical MINI Cooper, however it will have off-road design elements to it, with a higher suspension as well as all-wheel drive, facilitating some light offroading. Colorado is just an internal codename for the moment, but the old school Mini had a variant called the Moke, which was somewhat like a tiny cross between a Jeep and a Mini (refer to photo in the top left).
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Cool.
More variant, more choices
already saw the clubman spyshots , its jus an extended Mini , bt have one rear suicide door like the rx8! strange looking!
All of a sudden, the MINI isn't so special afterall. Its a rojak variants outthere.
Don't they ever learn? Sometimes, classic cars should be as it is categorise so.
Probably the designers have already run out of ideas, and followed the Porsche method, to restyle existing design a tad here and there, and brand it as a new variant..
FYI, got this info from confidential source, BMW only got the copyrights for MINI Cooper, the remaining Mini series ie Mini Moke, Clubman, Minner etc is still hold by MV Agusta Spa………
Dont know the truth in this, but thats why the Italian Job movie go through……..
Hameed Koyakuti
You'll have to enlighten me here as I don't know any of the facts, but, how on earth did MV Agusta Spa come to be in ownership of the Mini brand names? I could understand it if they had ended up in Chinese ownership with the passing of the Rover brand
Cagiva was producing the Moke until early 90s I think, made in Portugal. FWD Jeep concept. Was the Moke the world's first 'Soft Roader'??
I think merely through undisclosed exchange of terms between shareholders. Maybe maibatsu thunder also can elaborate, or any body else have any knowledge of this.???