It looks like we’ve been speaking concerning the MINI Superleggera for some time. Regardless that it debuted over a decade in the past, we simply final week checked out its origin story because the “MINI Ferrari,” just for MINI to then publish footage of a gold-hued MINI Superleggera on its Instagram. After we ran that story, commenters weighed in and made us do a double take. This was not, in truth, the identical MINI Superleggera we noticed all these years in the past carrying Cosmo Blue paint. After gathering some new images from MINI, we’ve confirmed that this can be a MINI Superleggera we haven’t but seen.
This MINI Superleggera is Practically Manufacturing Spec
Wanting on the footage, it’s fairly obvious that this MINI Superleggera is extra prepared for manufacturing than the MINI Superleggera Imaginative and prescient. As we coated in our authentic article on the automobile, there are some giveaways. The black-painted wheels are JCW-spec, and two-piece bumpers change the painstakingly crafted bodywork of the unique MINI Superleggera Imaginative and prescient. Single-piece models could be far too costly to mass-produce (and change), which signifies this car as extra production-spec.
The roll bars space additionally completely different from the Imaginative and prescient automobile’s. They now sit increased, main us to consider it’s what a manufacturing automobile would possibly appear to be. New headlights, seemingly lifted proper off the final era MINI Cooper, and a smaller rear “fin” add to the extra “practical” aesthetics. Oddly, the hood on this automobile goes the opposite means. This model has vents and scoops that make it look extra aggressive than the idea.
There’s one different huge clue that this automobile is means completely different than the unique MINI Superleggera. Across the again, we will see MINI identifies this automobile as a “Hybrid Take a look at Car.” The unique MINI Superleggera was all-electric. We’ve got to think about the automobile borrows the two.0-liter, 228-horsepower four-pot discovered elsewhere within the MINI lineup. Supplementing it with battery energy would make the probably light-weight Superleggera a ball of enjoyable. Contemplating the engine has 280 pound-feet of torque by itself, throwing electrification within the combine would make the MINI Superleggera a real go-kart round city. A novel rear spoiler not seen on the unique automobile sits atop the hind lights. Which, shock, are additionally barely tweaked from the unique automobile.
MINI Superleggera Inside Adjustments
Perhaps most significantly, this automobile seems to have a virtually full inside. The inside has a steering wheel we’ve seen in different MINI merchandise, fronting what seems to be a manufacturing speedometer. Whereas Recaro race seats and a harness system change standard seats and a seatbelt, it seems that the cabin is fairly nicely put collectively. We don’t have a full shot of the cabin, sadly. Within the sole inside shot supplied, we do see a full heart stack stuffed with buttons and switches. Contemplating the MINI Superleggera Imaginative and prescient had practically nothing within the cockpit, this can be a clear step in the direction of manufacturing readiness.
We don’t know whether or not the MINI Superleggera is going through an actual risk of manufacturing. What we do know is that this can be a new model, was apparently constructed with manufacturing in thoughts. Do you wish to see a manufacturing model of the MINI Superleggera? We all know we do. [Photos provided by MINI and BMW Classic to BMWBLOG for publication / Shot by: David Pentek]
