official pics of next MINI Cooper…
August 14th, 2006...can be found here in 4car’s gallery.
Note that the normally aspirated Cooper gets BMW’s state of the art valve lift and timing mechanisms VALVETRONIC and Double VANOS but the turbocharged engine doesn’t. (Turbo’s are plenty good at filling the cylinders with air).
I’m reserving judgement on the car’s aesthetics til I see it in the flesh but my first impression is that it looks comparatively awkward and that the interior is even more cartoony and busy – same mistake BMW made with the current 5 series…