Archive for the ‘Mini Roadster’ Category

There's been a lot of chatter about the MINI Roadster (also known as the MINI Speedster) which is set to debut at the Frankfurt Auto Show in just a couple of weeks. That's not surprising: everyone likes a roadster, and the sporty renderings popping up on the web have sparked the interest of journalists and enthusiasts alike. The MINI Crossover, on the other hand, hasn't been quite as successful at generating buzz -- and as it turns out, that's probably just as well.

Although the MINI Crossover and the Speedster were expected to share a stage at Frankfurt, BMW has confirmed that it will not be showing a production version of the Crossover...

The 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show is now only a couple of weeks away, and Mini in particular is ramping up to do the show in style. On Wednesday, the company revealed its new Coupe concept, and soon after that a sketch of a second Roadster concept that's expected to join the Coupe in Frankfurt surfaced online.

The Roadster has been expected for some time now; so much so that a budding designer--Richard Mitchell--has conceptualized what he thinks would be the ideal Mini Roadster in the form of this design model. Mitchell, incidentally, is a transportation design graduate from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

The concept is built...

This week saw Mini celebrate the 50th anniversary of the unveiling of the brand's first car with the unveiling of an all-new Coupe concept. Today, the Roadster half of the new-car pair made its debut a bit early thanks to a leaked sketch.

Based around the same two-seat setup as the Mini Coupe, the Roadster offers an extra dimension of fun thanks to its retractable top. The same 211-horsepower John Cooper Works-derived powertrain is also expected to sit under the hood of the show car.

The Roadster has been an ill-kept secret within Mini, but until now the car's existence has been only speculation and computer-generated rendering. Today's...