It looks like we’ve been speaking concerning the MINI Superleggera for some time. Although 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 photos 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, actually, 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
Trying on the photos, it’s fairly obvious that this MINI Superleggera is extra prepared for manufacturing than the MINI Superleggera Imaginative and prescient. As we lined in our unique article on the automotive, 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 items 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 automotive’s. They now sit increased, main us to consider it’s what a manufacturing automotive may appear to be. New headlights, seemingly lifted proper off the final era MINI Cooper, and a smaller rear “fin” add to the extra “lifelike” aesthetics. Oddly, the hood on this automotive goes the opposite approach. This model has vents and scoops that make it look extra aggressive than the idea.
There’s one different huge clue that this automotive is approach completely different than the unique MINI Superleggera. Across the again, we are able to see MINI identifies this automotive as a “Hybrid Take a look at Automobile.” The unique MINI Superleggera was all-electric. We’ve got to think about the automotive borrows the two.0-liter, 228-horsepower four-pot discovered elsewhere within the MINI lineup. Supplementing it with battery energy would make the doubtless 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 singular rear spoiler not seen on the unique automotive sits atop the back lights. Which, shock, are additionally barely tweaked from the unique automotive.
MINI Superleggera Inside Adjustments
Perhaps most significantly, this automotive 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 typical 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 offered, we do see a full heart stack stuffed with buttons and switches. Contemplating the MINI Superleggera Imaginative and prescient had almost nothing within the cockpit, this can be a clear step in direction of manufacturing readiness.
We don’t know whether or not the MINI Superleggera is going through an actual chance 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]
