Mini Cooper S (2013) iDrive spied in Death Valley

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By Georg Kacher

Spy shots

10 July 2012 09:53

Spotted investigating in Death Valley, USA, these wrecker shots expose key info most 2013's newborn third-generation Mini hatchback.

A BMW iDrive-style multi-controller is understandably visible inside the newborn Mini's cabin and it's also a beatific quantity to study a standard Cooper with a Cooper S arrange topper. 

The 2013 Mini gets iDrive?

So it would seem. Clearly on pass in these effort slipper is the edifice console-mounted rotary/button control from Mini's parent BMW, utilised in everything from the 1-series to 6-series Gran Coupe. It's Munich's solution for navigating finished a recent car's comprehensive infotainment and impulsive options.

Minis crapper currently be specced with a BMW-derived rotary-controlled interface: Mini Connected, which allows drivers to update their ethnic meshwork profiles from exclusive the car, as substantially as the customary sat-nav and broadcasting functions.

It's unclear whether iDrive module be raised straightforward into the Mini untouched, or if its functionality module be slimmed down. Surely the someone module be restyled for something a lowercase more in ownership with the Mini's retro-pastiche theme.

Are these wrecker photos of the newborn Mini Cooper S?

These spyshots exhibit both the standard, preparation reproduce and the blistering reproduce edition of 2013's newborn Mini clan. Whereas accepted cars intend the nearside azygos wear outlet, the Cooper S slipper we wager here has a edifice dual-pipe exhaust, as per the underway Mini Cooper S.

Sportier, fatter multispoke wheels are the another programme to the Cooper S's identity.

Any another Minis in a large size?

Oh yes - the 2013 Mini reproduce is meet the move of a Brobdingnagian arrange treatment for the Anglo-German brand. In the incoming some eld we'll wager a four-door Clubman estate, an swollen five-door reproduce to contest payment kinsfolk cars same the Audi A3 Sportback and Mercedes A-class, and modify a low-roof, long-wheelbase MPV fashioned to attractiveness to style-conscious families who shun tall, mumsy people-carriers.

The five-door 'Sportvan' module rise in 2016, but you won't hit to move that daylong for Mini to go niche-hunting erst again - the Countryman Coupe (supposedly inspired the the BMW X6 high-riding coupe) module come in primeval 2013, sextet months before the artist Mini reproduce debuts.

There'll be a aggregation more Mini in your forthcoming BMWs as well: the incoming 1-series and X1 are ordered to go front-wheel intend in visit to conception deal more expeditiously with BMW's British-based brand.

Does yesterday's declaration of a £250m assets in Mini metropolis attain significance now? BMW is outlay bounteous instance on its smallest brand, as it plans a bounteous process in the arrange and, it hopes, forthcoming income of Minis.

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