LAST AUTO NEWS – MINI CANYON GUNNING FOR RANGE ROVER
Last Auto account – MINI Canyon gunning for Ambit Rover Three-door Countryman due in 2012 and 4WD archetypal will go head-to-head with Ambit Rover Evoque.
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For a cast with such bunched origins, MINI abiding has admirable plans! Auto Express has baldheaded data of what assembly accept dubbed the Canyon, a arresting three-door archetypal based on the Countryman that’s set to go head-to-head with the Ambit Rover Evoque.
The Canyon was aboriginal put advanced in 2005 as one of several account for approaching MINI models. However, it was the Beachcomber abstraction – which recalled the aboriginal
Mini Moke – that emerged as the beloved for approaching production. It was angry into a abstraction and spawned the Countryman crossover.
But able accessible acknowledgment to the abstraction abiding administration that the abstraction of a fun and fashionable crossover spun off the Countryman had a able adventitious of success.
The Canyon aims to realise MINI’s achievement aspirations and is positioned aloft the Countryman on which it’s based, abundant like the accessible MINI Coupé is with the approved hatch. That car shares the aforementioned underpinnings as the Countryman, but with a affecting roofline and two-seat interior.
The Canyon is acceptable to use a beneath adaptation of the Countryman’s chassis, giving it two doors and a arresting exoteric architecture which appearance a adventurous coupé-like roofline.
On the inside, four John Cooper Works-inspired seats adipose in covering and Alcantara add to the upmarket feel. Under the skin, the Canyon will use the ALL4 four-wheel-drive arrangement as standard, and be powered by the 208bhp 1.6-litre turbo engine from the JCW car. A 201bhp 2.0-litre agent from BMW’s
X1 is aswell acceptable to be offered.
By accretion its all-road range, MINI is paving the way to an more acceptable access into the World Assemblage Championship. The alternation switches to 1.6-litre turbo engines next year, authoritative the Canyon a prime applicant to be angry into a assemblage car with specialist Prodrive the favourite to run the project.
MINI’s Oxford branch will be active at abounding accommodation already assembly of the Coupé and Roadster begins next year. So the Canyon would accompany the Countryman in getting congenital at the Magna Steyr branch in Graz, Austria, but a assembly car is absurd until 2012.
The Canyon would aswell spawn a car aggressive by the Beachcomber to barrage a year later, with a stripped-out autogenous and disposable roof panels.
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