The brand new Mini Roadster isn’t expected to reach showrooms prior to late next 12 months, but Carscoop reader Klaus M. has spotted a prototype design inside a swirly camouflage at a roundabout near Oxford in South East England. Caught by surprise, Klaus managed to shoot just one photograph from the 2012 Mini Roadster but promised to maintain an eye open and send us a lot more photographs later on.
Mini has currently revealed plans to debut the Coupe version of the sequence in the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show this September, with sales to comply with towards the conclude from the yr. The ragtop Roadster design will stick to at a later date. SPY SHOT 2012 Mini Roadster Testing
Both vehicles had been proven as thinly disguised idea models at the Frankfurt motor present in 2009. Their creation counterparts make use of the platform and mechanical hardware of the existing Mini hatchback and can be developed on the firm’s Oxford plant from the UK.
The Mini Roadster and Coupe are strictly two-seaters and can be provided in Cooper S and John Cooper Work flavors sporting Mini’s one.6-liter twin-scroll turbocharged motor with 184HP and 211HP respectively, while a base Cooper model with a obviously aspirated one.6-liter petrol unit as well as a diesel-powered version are rumored to make the lower.
