Spied: Mini Monte SAV
BMW Boss Norbert Reithofer let the world know that Mini is planning to produce a small SAV in the near future during his address to the BMW board earlier this year. Now we have some spy shots, courtesy of Hans G. Lehmann/ Hidden Image, of the upcoming tall Mini.
Spotted in the streets of Munich, this Monte mule is Clubman based, but it offers the option of all-wheel drive and it will be a five-door. Expect the production version to debut at the Paris Motor Show next year.
New BMW Mini SAV confirmed
Latest mule spotted in Munich
BMW has recently confirmed what has been just rumoured before – a little so-called Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV) will be added to the existing model range of the successful Mini. The new off road style vehicle will in a way take up the tradition of the very first Mini off roaders, Austin Ant and Mini Moke, 50,000 units of which were built back in the Sixties.
The newcomer is at this time said to be named “Monte
Comments
CHARLES G.
So the Mini becomes a Midi. Bigger is better? Less is more...
Alexander López
I've seen the future: up next, the Mini SUV with seats for 7 people and a V-6 engine. For God's sake, keep the Mini as a minicar. Want more space? Buy other car!
Rex
@ Alex Lopez comments "Want more space? Buy other car!" That's the best Business plan ever. NOT! :(
I haven't seen a bad illustration of this model yet. My advise to Mini bring it already! Put all Haters on Blast!
dante
Oh, I get it! Irony. Kind of like calling a fat guy "Tiny". Who said Germans have no sense of humor?
MiniCooperJD
Oh dear, I agree... keep the Mini a Mini... if you want an SAV or SUV buy an X3, or an X5. This is a BAD BAD BAD idea.
Jonathan Fung [Gotakon]
LOL at BMW's super special non-conformist SAV designation.
John Carder
I would point out that the two actual photos are of a car with two doors (and two instead of a hatch). I'd be very interested in an AWD 2-door Mini. I'm not interested in a 4-door Mini, of any kind.
X
great, bmw has reinvented the maxi...
P. Gordon Gilbert
A very long time ago I put 850 miles on my first mini memorial Day weekend. My Kid brother used a pair of "colour tunes"* to bring it to a peak efficiency of 41.6
miles per gallon (U.S.) in highway use! It was a marvellous little beast.
To those who complain about "Size" strangely the
Austin 1800 cornered and handled EXACTLY with the elan and elegance of a Mini BUT the Austin "America"
[a considerably smaller vehicle] did NOT corner at all well. I wonder if, With the Mini & 1800 it was a similar ratio of width to length that made them so much better.
* ["COLOUR TUNE"] Gunson colour tune.
"If you look at the burn front of an explosion in your cylinder, the more bright orange it is, the more fuel is being wasted, and the bluer the flame, the more economically it is running. A Colour tune Kit, is simply a spark plug with a glass bottom in it that allows you to do this.
Unleaded fuel burns cleaner than leaded fuel and in my personal experience the orange flame front is not quite so obvious, which is why colourtunes tend not to be quite as good on unleaded engines."
For the (old) Mini's Dual Carb engine, replacing the spark plug at each end of the engine with a
"Colour Tune" a talented person such as my brother
could "balance" the system for maximum efficiency!
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